Carlsberg don’t do rally prep, but if they did… On Monday night I thought someone had beamed me out of…
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Recently the Galway Motor Club announced they wouldn’t be running their iconic season opener in 2018. The Galway International Rally…
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It’s hard to believe that the Ford Fiesta is on its 8th generation. But back in the 70’s it was…
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I’m the “old” in the heading this week. For most that’s a subject that we try to avoid. But if…
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Today at Limerick Institute of Technology a young Donegal man will step up onto the stage to receive his graduation…
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DD Motoring: A 1940s letter, the changing of ‘posts’ and the last ‘Telegram Boy’
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoI recently bumped into a postman in Boyces Cafe in Letterkenny. We talked about the weather, as you do when…
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With the winter months arriving it’s a real pain trying to get the mist and frost cleared from the windows…
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I am hoping for forgiveness in place of permission in sharing one of Danielle Duddy Meeke’s posts of the family…
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The very last job to do on every new Rolls Royce that is built is done by hand. This is…
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DD Motoring: Chariots of Fire and John Lyons
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoThe Donegal Motor Club is honoured to welcome back one of the most competitive rally drivers that has ever taken…
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This week it was the hubcaps that did it for me! Not many cars have proper hubcaps anymore. Funny thing…
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DD Motoring: The last of his kind – Station Officer Mickey Molloy
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoOn the last fire drill of the last millennium at the old Letterkenny Fire Station the below firefighters signed a…
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DD Motoring: A road trip through school
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoIt doesn’t really matter where you start in this story, the cycle is the same, So I’ll start by wishing…
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DD Motoring: New Bus Service in Donegal
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoI once heard a story about a widow talking about her late husband. Someone ask her when did her late…
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There’s something very old and connected about Toyota’s newest addition to its Hybrid range. Twenty years in Ireland giving us…
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DD Motoring: From Bondi Beach to Ballybofey – emigration in reverse
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoWhat can you say about a car that transcends life? A car that connects one generation with another, one that…
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DD Motoring: Sadness as a familiar face gone from Donegal highways and byways
by Brian McDaid 7 years agoFrom this valley they say you are going, We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile, For they say…
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Fintown has always had memories of travel and time for me, half way between Ballybofey and Glenties, and the same…
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Ten years ago I captured this photo of Paddy Doherty at work with his team of Irish Cob working horses,…
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Our motoring column comes from Roscommon this week as we try to track down Mr. Donegal! The mystery tour starts…