Our new Stand Up Paddle School will be Opening this Easter in Rathmullan, Co. Donegal. Come along and try the fastest growing board sport in the world. It really is fun and does the whole body work out.
Keep tuned for more info!
For more details contact Ian at Adventure One
golf in Donegal
Portsalon Golf Club
In a remote and beautiful setting, Portsalon is a true hidden treasure. A marvellous links on the Fanad peninsula, Portsalon provides a bracing opening 3 holes before continuing through traditional linksland with a variety of fine holes. A major redesign project, undertaken by the renowned architect Pat Ruddy, has been completed (2003) and will propel Portsalon into the premier league of Irish links courses.
Rosapenna Golf Club
Originally laid out by Old Tom Morris and later improved by James Braid and Harry Vardon, Rosapenna is a charming links. The first ten holes play along Sheephaven Bay between the beach and a range of tall sand dunes. The last eight play inland and uphill in meadow where the high grounds present distracting and delightful views. The 2003 addition of the Sandy Hills course provides another 36-hole facility in Ireland’s North West.
Click here to view all golf courses in Donegal
Adult Learners Festival in Donegal
contact Rose Duffy at the Donegal Adult Learner Guidance Service 074 9178088
The annual AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival event is scheduled for next week from 20th – 24th February. To celebrate this event Adult Education Community Providers and Co.Donegal VEC’s Adult Education Service have a number of events scheduled to take place throughout the county aimed at providing information to adult learners, showcasing the value of adult learning and celebrating the achievements of adult learners who have come through the process.
“An estimated 15,000 adults are involved annually in formal and community based adult and further education programmes in the county and more than 1,200 attended the recent Adult Learner Fair in Letterkenny – all this points to an increase in demand for adult education services in Donegal”.- says Cróna Gallagher, Adult Education Officer with Donegal VEC.
Please take the opportunity to view the Adult Learners’ Festival Timetable for Donegal and to listen to the selection below of some real life testimonials of achievement from around the county, from people who have availed of the Adult Education Services to date.
For further information please contact the relevant centres from the timetable. For ongoing information on VEC Adult Education Programmes, contact Rose Duffy at the Donegal Adult Learner Guidance Service (074 9178088).
We look forward to your attendance throughout the week of events!!
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Donegal Bridgestone Guide 2012 – Donegal businesses have featured prominently in this year’s Bridgestone Guide.
Speaking of which, Linsfort Castle B & B, located on the shores of Lough Swilly just outside Buncrana, has been selected for the second year running as one of the 100 Best Places to stay as well.
Owners Alan Rooks and Brigeen Clafferty only got into the B&B business in 2008. Alan says being one of the Bridgestone 100 makes a huge difference. “Up to 2011 our clients were mainly visitors already coming to Inishowen who found us through our web site. However, after getting in the Top 100, we found that quite a number of new customers were actually coming to Linsfort as a destination. Thanks to Bridgestone, I think that we have been able to make a useful contribution to the effort to put Inishowen on the tourist map of Ireland”
John McKenna told the Donegal Democrat: “Donegal’s major strength is consistency. “Places like Rathmullan House, Aroma in Donegal Town and The Mill are models of getting it right every time.
Derry wins bid to host the All-Ireland fleadh. Members of the central executive of traditional Irish music body Comhaltas met in Dublin to decide the venue on Saturday.
Sligo was also in the running to host the fleadh. Ennis had withdrawn its bid. The festival attracts up to 300,000 visitors and is worth about 40m euros to the host venue.
Comhaltas promotes traditional Irish music and culture around the world.
Derry, which will be UK City of Culture 2013, was a late confirmation on the shortlist after the Ulster Council of CCE reversed its decision not to support the bid.
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Donegal earthquake registers 2.2 on Richter scale. The epicentre of the quake is believed to be somewhere close to Glenvar on the Knockalla Coast Road. Residents living in Donegal were woken by a minor earthquake in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed an earthquake registering 2.2 on the Richter scale was registered in Buncrana at 01:04 GMT. The earthquake’s measured depth was 3km.
Donegal Earthquake
It happened almost exactly two years to the day since a similar sized tremor was felt. The BGS said it was a very small reading in terms of world earthquakes but for Ireland, which does not see much of this activity, it is not surprising it has caused an amount of alarm.
It received about nine calls with people claiming to have felt vibrations, whilst others compared it to thunder.
Julian Bukits, assistant seismologist with the BGS, said window frames shook and some people were woken up.
“It happens naturally in the north of Ireland but not as often, say, as northern Scotland or the south of Wales,” he said.
“No one can really explain it for Ireland, it’s just a geological phenomenon. Usually, with reports of this kind, people think it’s a heavy lorry going past their home.”
The BGS has narrowed the epicentre of the quake down to a few hundred yards around the Knockalla Heights coast road, about five miles across Lough Swilly from Buncrana.
People as far away as Letterkenny, Kilmacrennan and Ballybofey reported the rumblings, as well as more locally in Buncrana, Kerrykeel and Urris.
No damage has been reported.
The last similar-sized earthquake in Ireland was a 2.6 in north Clare in May 2010.
Mr Bukits said: “They are not very often and as far as earthquakes go, 2.2 is relatively insignificant.”
There have been eight minor earthquakes recorded in this region of Donegal.
Director of the Irish National Seismic Network Tom Blake said Donegal has some significant fault lines “coming all the way from Scotland”.
He assured that the faults were far removed from any major boundaries and were a normal reaction to the seismicity there.
“From time to time there is a little stress and strain that gets released and that is what we see as these minor tremors,” he said.
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Altan – Back to the Source – Directed by Jeremy Howard, this short film documents an education residency project featuring world-renowned Donegal traditional music group Altan, organised by the Regional Cultural Centre RCC) and Donegal County Council (DCC) Public Art Office.
It features performances with young traditional musicians and singers (from 7 secondary schools in West Donegal), the VECMEP Donegal Youth Orchestra and some older musicians from the County. Filmed by David Chernick, Otto Schlindwein, Karen Hosty and Brian McVeigh and directed by Jeremy Howard.
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