The smell of summer is still the same as it always was. It was a Thursday morning out walking along…
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A week before the time changes and we lose an hour of daylight before the evenings close in, two letters…
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Brian McDaid: Marbles and modern day driving distractions!
by Brian McDaid 2 years agoIt’s that time again when the dark evenings are rolling in, the weather gets that bit more miserable and road…
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I could smell two Minis up ahead. They branched off at the roundabout to head around the bypass. I knew then…
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DD Motoring: Corsa culture in the days of Big 4 sauce and strawberry milkshakes
by Brian McDaid 2 years agoDonegal Daily motoring columnist Brian McDaid is marked 40 years of the Opel Corsa with a trip to Manor Motors……
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A takeaway in Letterkenny sends columnist Brian McDaid on a trip down memory lane to harder times. I had my…
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Our motoring columnist Brian McDaid takes a trip down memory lane this week – to one of the hottest summers…
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This week’s column from Brian McDaid recalls a catch-up with an old friend, and great memories from when the Bay…
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SAINT Patrick’s day was on a Monday that year; a day that you didn’t know what it was going to…
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by Brian McDaid Friends stood outside the Station House Hotel and around Old Town Letterkenny in silence on Wednesday afternoon…
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I was like a big wane waiting on the arrival of my offer of a 78 ‘first edition’ on Monday morning..…
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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…
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There wasn’t any second class seats on Tootsie’s bus, only the best. In our minds, we sat on his bus…
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God rest Bernard McGlinchey who would always recall the first time he saw my father landing down with us as…
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Do you know the history of Ballymacool Park? With close family connections to the area, Brian McDaid recounts rich stories…
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Here’s this week’s motoring column by Brian McDaid. I’m embarrassed to say that for a moment I couldn’t find the…
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In those days it was the knock on the door in the middle of night or that phone call. Now…
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Donegal Daily’s Motoring Columnist Brian McDaid looks back on a test drive of the new Ford Transit Connect. It’s the…
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This is the place, the smallest thing, a slightest sense of motoring in days gone by, a glance through a sliding…
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This Road Safety Week, our motoring columnist Brian McDaid explains from experience why we should always be ready to react…