Brian McDaid

Click…. Cli-ck….c-l-i-c-k….! The international call sign from your car to tell you that the battery is flat. Mind you we…

There wasn’t any second class seats on Tootsie’s bus, only the best. In our minds, we sat on his bus…

God rest Bernard McGlinchey who would always recall the first time he saw my father landing down with us as…

Do you know the history of Ballymacool Park? With close family connections to the area, Brian McDaid recounts rich stories…

Here’s this week’s motoring column by Brian McDaid.  I’m embarrassed to say that for a moment I couldn’t find the…

Motoring columnist Brian McDaid takes a trip down memory lane, sharing stories prompted by the familiar smell of a little…

From the candy store on the corner to the chapel on the hill. Two young lovers are longing to go…

In those days it was the knock on the door in the middle of night or that phone call. Now…

Liam O’Donnell measures out two metres with his feet. “That’s the distance for the photo-call this year’,  he announces. “You stand over there,…

Donegal Daily’s Motoring Columnist Brian McDaid looks back on a test drive of the new Ford Transit Connect. It’s the…

It was the silence that replaced what I thought silence was. It gave me the space to think this week.…

As Hegarty’s Garage in Letterkenny celebrates their 60th year in business, our motoring columnist Brian McDaid looks back on the…

This is the place, the smallest thing, a slightest sense of motoring in days gone by, a glance through a sliding…

Letterkenny is this week mourning the loss of a local hero – former firefighter Sean Curran, who passed away on…

Just before this lockdown set in I got a chance to check out the all-new Octavia from Škoda at DMG…

I found myself in a vacant gaze as I passed a wake-house on the road near my old childhood home…

This Road Safety Week, our motoring columnist Brian McDaid explains from experience why we should always be ready to react…

It’s that time for me again when phone contract ends and I get that itching for a new phone. So…

THERE is space for only three cars at Reid Motorsport workshop on the outskirts of Letterkenny.  DD Motoring: Nostalgia in…

This week, columnist Brian McDaid takes a trip down memory lane to a place in Glencar Letterkenny where rich childhood…