Brian McDaid

The smell of summer is still the same as it always was.  It was a Thursday morning out walking along…

A week before the time changes and we lose an hour of daylight before the evenings close in, two letters…

It’s that time again when the dark evenings are rolling in, the weather gets that bit more miserable and road…

I could smell two Minis up ahead. They branched off at the roundabout to head around the bypass.  I knew then…

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

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

Our motoring columnist Brian McDaid takes a trip down memory lane this week – to one of the hottest summers…

This week’s column from Brian McDaid recalls a catch-up with an old friend, and great memories from when the Bay…

SAINT Patrick’s day was on a Monday that year; a day that you didn’t know what it was going to…

by Brian McDaid Friends stood outside the Station House Hotel and around Old Town Letterkenny in silence on Wednesday afternoon…

I was like a big wane waiting on the arrival of my offer of a 78 ‘first edition’ on Monday morning..…

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…

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

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

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

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