Motors

Donegal Daily motoring columnist Brian McDaid is marked 40 years of the Opel Corsa with a trip to Manor Motors……

After you had finished your ice pop you could write your name using the lollipop stick and tar on a…

It’s been three years since ‘Donegal’ was here. That’s the one single word that sparks the greatest passion in any…

Our old Standard is the family car I remember the best. I remember its face, the headlights as eyes, the…

I once drove to Dublin with no insurance, if we were stopped I had my brother’s Provisional Driving licence with…

This story starts with an empty window washer bottle in Kerrykeel. One of them times when wipers across a window…

If my camera could have spoken it would have told me to go home, such was the rain in Galway…

The Rallysport Association ‘Valentines Rally Sprints 2022’ will take place on Saturday’s the 12th and 19th of February at the…

‘Come up and make me smile’ by Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel comes to mind as a song that’s…

Motoring columnist Brian McDaid reflects on Seamus Boyle’s tractor run at the weekend, along with memories of him and his…

Motoring columnist Brian McDaid reflects on the memorable road trips shared between fathers and sons. ‘Look at them old fashioned…

Since I put on the winter tyres there wasn’t a bit of snow. That all changed last weekend, but more…

By Brian McDaid I’m slowly making my way up to the front door of the Ballyraine Hotel. The crowds are…

I would be at my happiest if one day I could witness the sight of a railway and a train…

“This was once Nee’s, wasn’t it,? I thought it once was A Wear? Nah that was after that.” Upper Main…

“Ah now, I thought we were going home in the Mercedes”, “this is a Mercedes” I replied as I helped…

Joe stuck his head in the passengers door, ‘ah that’s that new car smell, it won’t last long you know’…

Beam me up Scottie I am a child again in a different world in Donegal Town on Sunday morning watching…

A recent event prompts columnist Brian McDaid to reflect on those who have gone before us. Our home is full…

A takeaway in Letterkenny sends columnist Brian McDaid on a trip down memory lane to harder times. I had my…