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Buncrana Harbour Dredging 23.03.23
Dredging will take place at
Buncrana Harbour from Monday 27th March to Friday 21st April.
MV Otterbank will be carrying out plough dredging daily from 7am to 8pm.
Access to the pier and movements within the harbour will be
restricted during these works and all other harbour users and boat
operators are asked to exercise caution while manoeuvring within
these waters.
This is essential work to ensure the safe operation of the harbour
for all users and to enable any necessary rescue launch by the RNLI
Lifeboat.
Library event for Ukrainian
families 22.03.23
Europe Direct Letterkenny,
based in Central Library, will showcase their range of children’s
books available in the Ukrainian language on Thursday 23rd, March at
6:30pm. The event will be free and refreshments will be provided.
These new books have been catalogued in the Cyrillic alphabet so it
will make the books much easier to request on the Donegal Library
website.
To book this event please email
eudirect@donegallibrary.ie or telephone 074 91 24950.
Donegal Libraries also host weekly Stay and Play storytime sessions
in Buncrana and Carndonagh. For more information on library services
please visit
www.donegallibrary.ie .
Donegal Culture & Creativity
Project Awards 09.03.23
Applications are now being invited for the Donegal Culture &
Creativity Project Awards 2023. The scheme is offering 25 awards of
€2,000 each to projects that encourage cooperation and collaboration
between communities and heritage specialists, artists, culture
professionals and/or creative industries.
The aim is to preserve, conserve, research, practice, exhibit,
perform, instruct, engage, enhance, promote or address an aspect of
the material or non-material culture in an original, imaginative or
creative way. Community groups and individuals in Inishowen may
apply for funding for a project that addresses culture, heritage,
arts or creative industries.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 27th March at
12 noon. Further details and application forms are available online
at www.donegallibrary.ie
or by emailing
creativeireland@donegalcoco.ie .
Ceremony to commemorate
executions at Drumboe 28.02.23
Minister for Agriculture,
Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD will attend a formal
wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the execution of four men:
Charlie Daly, Daniel Enright, Timothy O’Sullivan and Séan Larkin at
Drumboe Castle, Stranorlar on the 14th March 1923.
The ceremony will take place in Stranorlar at 2pm on Sunday 5th
March in the Coillte car park opposite the field in which the
original Drumboe memorial is situated.
The events leading up to the arrest and the subsequent execution of
these four men during the Civil War had a profound effect on
communities in Donegal and elsewhere and has continued to live on in
memory.
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