Tour Donegal - IRELAND

06/04/2025

The Secret Smuggler’s Tunnel rediscovered after centuries in Donegal.

06/04/2025

Sunset over Donegal Bay this April 2025 from Smuggler’s Creek, Rossnowlagh, Donegal, Ireland.

10/06/2024

Vintage fayre at Rossnowlagh, south Donegal this afternoon, beautiful backdrop for these rare old racing cars….

10/06/2024

If your around Nairn/Portnoo, Ardara in beautiful SW Donegal I recommend calling into Shona and her friendly staff in this little gem of a cafe, right on the beachfront - its simply divine!

Opening hours this coming week:

Monday 10 am -5pm
Tuesday 10am -5pm
Wednesday 10am -5pm
Thursday 10am -5pm
Friday 10am -5pm
Saturday 10am- 5pm
Sunday 11am -5pm

07/06/2024

The highlights of the last few weeks of touring and exploring our South Donegal area and Sligo….we are blessed with a unique landscape here on Donegal Bay and the Atlantic coast of Donegal, Ireland, certainly The Coolest Place on the Planet…!

03/05/2024

Assaranka yesterday evening as the sun went down..

03/05/2024

Another candidate has put their name forward to contest the upcoming local elections in the Donegal Municipal District.   Businessman Derek Vial is

02/05/2024

This is the very first video to appear back in April 2017 on derekvial_tourdonegal and TourDonegal-Ireland F/B of the then recently rediscovered ancient wonder The Secret Waterfall, it’s been filmed and photographed once or twice since those firsts on social media!

02/05/2024

FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint The first ship of an estimated 25 such liners to visit Killybegs this summer will pull into port tomorrow…

02/05/2024

The sunsets across southwest Donegal are just unreal at this time of the year….

01/05/2024

Kippure Manor and Compulsory Purchase Orders for Asylum Centres

The unfolding fiasco that is Kippure Manor (and aptly an anagram of ‘Pure Kip’!) should serve as a test case for a CPO as a new and much alluded too state owned and run asylum detention centre. This would simultaneously deny the developers and promoters of this massive and largely unauthorised development some of their ill-gotten gains from both lucrative state IPAS contracts and egregious flouting of state planning laws and conventions.
This is effectively killing two birds with the one stone and helps to restore the newly minted Taoiseach’s aspirations in regards to law and order. There is no point suggesting the fiasco of Lower Mount Street, outside the IPAS/IPO is illegal and unacceptable when Kippure Manor, in nearby leafy county Wicklow is also in breach of almost every law of the land regarding proper and sustainable planning and building regulations, obviously among others, including fire certification, health and safety standards, overcrowding and other basic rental and housing regulations, that such an unregulated or illegal site must have.
It cannot be one rule and process for some and effectively none for another! This issue could be the proverbial hair that breaks the camel’s back and that of the Irish people.
Also, a euphemistically symbolic name for such a place could be Mount Malview Vista!

Yours, incredulously!

Derek Vial,
Donegal.