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How Sinead engineers an electrifying image of women in STEM 7 years ago

How Sinead engineers an electrifying image of women in STEM

By  •  Life

The Leaving Cert this year will see a usual imbalance in the number of boys and girls studying STEM subjects – 94% of candidates studying Engineering are male, 84% of …
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Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s heartache after beloved fiddle is broken 7 years ago

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s heartache after beloved fiddle is broken

By  •  News

The Donegal musician was travelling to the Shetland Islands when the 19th century Haley Richardson fiddle was taken from her by airport security for examination.

Extensive damage to the fiddle, …
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Musician pens powerful song for blogger who suffered miscarriage 7 years ago

Musician pens powerful song for blogger who suffered miscarriage

Rebecca Flynn, the woman behind Body Positive Ireland, discussed her miscarriage frankly and bravely this week on her Snapchat in an attempt to break down the stigma and silence surrounding …
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Yee-haw! The Jamboree is in town! 7 years ago

Yee-haw! The Jamboree is in town!

The stage is now being set up for the hotly-anticipated Jamboree in the Park Letterkenny, as Ireland’s largest indoor country music festival hits the great outdoors this Saturday. 

All will …
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Watch: Newlyweds’ first dance interrupted by noisy invasion 7 years ago

Watch: Newlyweds’ first dance interrupted by noisy invasion

Mr. & Mrs. Brian and Olivia Stern celebrated their wedding reception at Solis Lough Eske Castle Hotel in Donegal last weekend. As Brian is a US Navy man, there was already …
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WATCH: Bridesmaid sings ‘Perfect’ speech at Donegal wedding 7 years ago

WATCH: Bridesmaid sings ‘Perfect’ speech at Donegal wedding

Bridesmaid Ciara Whoriskey paid tribute to happy newlyweds Kerrie and Rachael Costello in a fresh and funny way – reworking the lyrics of One Direction’s Perfect.

Strabane women Kerrie and Rachael were married in …
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Exclusive: Country star Cliona Hagan on why Donegal crowds are ‘so amazing’ 7 years ago

Exclusive: Country star Cliona Hagan on why Donegal crowds are ‘so amazing’

Cliona Hagan, the new princess of Irish County, is counting down the days to the Letterkenny Jamboree, where she and her band join a lineup that boasts the best of …
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Watch: Adorable Letterkenny baby is soothed by the sounds of Ed Sheeran 7 years ago

Watch: Adorable Letterkenny baby is soothed by the sounds of Ed Sheeran

The song Nancy Mulligan from Ed Sheeran’s new album Divide is known as a lively track to dance to, but one Letterkenny baby hears it as the perfect lullaby.

Baby …
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How to catch a concert by the RTE Lyric FM Quartet in Donegal 7 years ago

How to catch a concert by the RTE Lyric FM Quartet in Donegal

The music group will be performing a series of 50-minute concerts in schools and community groups across Donegal from next Monday, May 8th.

RTÉ lyric fm will visit Donegal as part of their new stream …
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Dancer Megan plans country night in memory of her wonderful aunt Winnie 7 years ago

Dancer Megan plans country night in memory of her wonderful aunt Winnie

By  •  News

Winne McCauley was a much-loved Donegal woman who passed away before Christmas 2016. Through her life, she had a great impact on two communities in Ray, Falcarragh and Aranmore island, …
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Looking for something alternative to do next weekend? 7 years ago

Looking for something alternative to do next weekend?

Donegal will play host to its fourth annual alternative music and art festival when Distorted Perspectives lands back in Letterkenny on 28th and 29th of April 2017.

Distorted Perspectives is …
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Sister group The Henry Girls join The Late Late Show line-up 7 years ago

Sister group The Henry Girls join The Late Late Show line-up

Sister Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from Malin, Donegal, are set to make a very special performance on The Late Late Show tonight.

Host Ryan Tubridy will be welcoming the …
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Watch: Best Man turns wedding speech into hilarious tune 7 years ago

Watch: Best Man turns wedding speech into hilarious tune

By  •  Bridal

The Ballymote native crossed the world from Australia for the big event and decided to make an extra effort with a creative contribution instead of a speech.

At the reception …
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Watch: Nathan Carter is Livin the Dream in Nashville 7 years ago

Watch: Nathan Carter is Livin the Dream in Nashville

Irish country superstar Nathan Carter has just released the music video for his new single Livin The Dream.

The video, filmed in Nashville was published last night to an eager …
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Festival Season will soon be upon us 7 years ago

Festival Season will soon be upon us

By  •  Life

A focus on 2fm this week has been on festivals, which made me feel it be only right to introduce you (by way of a video link here) to a …
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Sam Smith’s Donegal secret is out 7 years ago

Sam Smith’s Donegal secret is out

By  •  News

It has been revealed that the talented singer has been in Donegal to record a secret album. His secret didn’t last too long, as he has been spending a lot …
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Why is Sam in the hills of Donegal? 7 years ago

Why is Sam in the hills of Donegal?

By  •  News

Donegal is renowned for attracting celebrities in search of peace from the world of showbiz, so it didn’t come as too much of a surprise to see that Sam Smith …
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Donegal duo Little Hours to perform on The Late Late Show 7 years ago

Donegal duo Little Hours to perform on The Late Late Show

Tonight’s Late Late Show line-up will include a special performance from Donegal duo Little Hours.

John Doherty and Ryan Mc Closkey, from Killybegs, will be taking to the stage to …
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Daniel says goodbye to reality TV… and leather pants! 7 years ago

Daniel says goodbye to reality TV… and leather pants!

By  •  News

The Donegal singer, 55, said he has put his ‘hot’ trousers into his fridge.

He said “I turned 55 and I thought it was time to retire the leather trousers.”


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Singer Chelsea wins dream chance to perform with her idol 7 years ago

Singer Chelsea wins dream chance to perform with her idol

By  •  News

Dunfanaghy girl Chelsea Evans, aged 12, was announced as the winner of a Facebook competition and will now get to sing alongside her idol Lisa, the Glaswegian star who has …
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Celebrity wedding flashmob video gets +1million hits! 7 years ago

Celebrity wedding flashmob video gets +1million hits!

By  •  News

The video was taken at the wedding of Daniel O Donnell’s niece Patricia Doogan and her fiancée Neil Swan on Friday, Feb 3rd. St. Mary’s Church in Kincasslagh came alive with a …
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Watch: Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl half-time show 7 years ago

Watch: Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl half-time show

Lady Gaga wowed the crowd with an explosive thirteen-minute set. She took the opportunity to make a political statement with her opening song of Woody Guthrie’s civil rights anthem This …
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Ed Sheeran announces two Irish dates 7 years ago

Ed Sheeran announces two Irish dates

The singer will be taking off on a tour of Europe and the UK to mark the release of his new album Divide.

Ed will be playing in Dublin’s 3Arena …
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Nathan Carter has announced some very special news 7 years ago

Nathan Carter has announced some very special news

The Irish country star made a live Facebook announcement yesterday about his show at the 3Arena Dublin this April, which is set to be the biggest concert of his career.


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This wedding singer puts other grooms to shame 7 years ago

This wedding singer puts other grooms to shame

The video shows Omagh singer Niall Donnelly performing at his own wedding as his bride Jill walked to meet him. Niall was joined by his bride for the chorus and appears delighted when …
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Enya records sweet profits in 2016 7 years ago

Enya records sweet profits in 2016

By  •  News

Donegal songstress Enya has raked in profits of up to €875,000 in 2016, according to accounts submitted to the Companies Office, Dublin Live reports.

Enya’s music company, Aigle Music Company Ltd. …
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2017 is already looking great thanks to one singer 7 years ago

2017 is already looking great thanks to one singer

Ed Sheeran is back! He posted a teasing video to Twitter today to simply say – New Music Coming Friday!!

Modern musical heroines receive premier awards 7 years ago

Modern musical heroines receive premier awards

By  •  News

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Rita Gallagher have been selected for two highly-regarded Irish Traditional Music awards, and will be celebrating at a major ceremony in Cork this February.

The Musician of …
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Singer competes with a ‘Real Christmas No. 1’ 7 years ago

Singer competes with a ‘Real Christmas No. 1’

She’s only 14, but Amy Meehan is taking on an old classic in a bid to win a lucrative prize in a Christmas song contest.

The Manorcunningham girl recorded her …
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