New tune setting: The Flooded Road To Glenties (reel)

1970. Glenties held a parade. Dennis Tynan photographed the event, including this photograph of a float with a banner paraphrasing Patrick McGill's poem Going Home: 'I am back home again in Glenties in Conservation Year where there is no air pollution and Salmon by the score.'

The only disappointment in all the great legacy of the MacGill Summer School up in Glenties for 45 years is that no publisher - not even the Royal Irish Academy itself - has issued a scholarly edition of the complete works of Patrick MacGill (1889-1963).

A disappointment and a surprise.

Prosecution expected in relation to Denis Donaldson death: The Irish government has announced that an individual will be prosecuted in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of Denis Donaldson in Glenties, County Donegal. Donaldson, a former key figure in Sinn Féin's… https://ranked.news/132896?u=b

Arrival of first new Garda car in a decade in Glenties welcomed

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A local Councillor has welcomed the arrival of a new Garda patrol car serving the Glenties area. The…

From Tom Paulin's book "Namanlagh". The Lough Swilly railway didn't run between Derry and Glenties. And it's Lough Finn not Finn Lough.

They were great friends, and Stoppard was an astute reader of Friel‘s work. He went to visit him in Glenties not long before he died.

Bishop leads tributes to Church of Ireland Minister killed in Donegal crash

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Tributes to the Church of Ireland Minister killed in a car crash near Glenties on Wednesday have been…

Main Glenties to Frosses road remains closed following fatal crash

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Main pic: Gardaí at the scene of the fatal crash near Kilraine, Glenties. Pic North West NewsPix. A…

Breaking: Glenties-Frosses road closed following serious collision

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Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road on the R262 Glenties to…

This weekend's big club GAA stories, Glenties chase history, Ratoath on the double, Galway classic in store

10 County Finals and a raft of big semi-finals take place across the country this weekend with loads of talking points. We take a look at the best of the action on offer and some of the...

A series of events will take place this weekend in Glenties, Co Donegal, to celebrate one of Ireland's most influential writers, Brian Friel, on the tenth anniversary of his death

Americans ruining things:
"The Yankee *twang* and all the usual go ahead ways are so utterly out of keeping with the surrounding. Fancy a splendid avenue of tropical vegetation permeated by scores and scores of telephone wires. ...Picture this in the mountain wilds of Glenties & Gweedore."

Internationally acclaimed actors Sinéad Cusack, Adrian Dunbar, Stephen Rea and Ciarán Hinds to descend on Glenties to honour Brian Friel on tenth anniversary

Kindhearted Donegal business offers to groom neglected dogs for FREE!

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A kindhearted Donegal business has offered to groom 14 neglected dogs that were seized near Glenties at the…

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I found some old copies @archreview.bsky.social copies dating from the mid 70s+. Including a piece from March 1978 on 2 Ulster churches by Liam mcCormick & partners at Steelstown & Glenties.

New event: Paddy Keenan with Marty Barry, Bianca Rohleder, Èamonn De Barra, Dermot Byrne and Tom & Felix Doran, August 23rd, 2025, Glenties, Donegal, Ireland

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People were busy in Tallaght in 2022, new local birth rate data finds

It was a quiet year for those in the Glenties, Co Donegal, where the birth rate was the lowest nationally, at just 7.4.