Brian McDaid

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…

THERE is space for only three cars at Reid Motorsport workshop on the outskirts of Letterkenny.  DD Motoring: Nostalgia in…

This week, columnist Brian McDaid takes a trip down memory lane to a place in Glencar Letterkenny where rich childhood…

Out of the ashes of one of the recent break-ins in Letterkenny local people have come together to help a…

On Sunday morning last two tourists tucked into two crusty breakfast rolls sitting on the kerb-side outside a shop at…

Our Motoring Columnist Brian McDaid visits three generations of Thomas Keys’ in Letterkenny to chart the wonderful journey of their…

Like many of us who thought they knew John Hume but didn’t really, Donegal Daily columnist Brian McDaid recalls his…

Donegal Daily’s Motoring Columnist Brian McDaid takes the new Ford Puma for a day around the hills and beaches of…

Donegal Daily columnist Brian McDaid visited Letterkenny butcher Tommy Tease last week on his last day before retiring from Dunnes…

Donegal Daily’s Motoring Columnist Brian McDaid gets an early look at one of the new Land Rover Defenders. “Hello… Hellooo..…