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} Donegal (Dún na nGall within Irish) is a town within County Donegal, Ireland. Despite existence its namesake - Donegal town is non a shire town (capital) of County Donegal, that being a town of Lifford while Letterkenny is the largest town. A town itself is notable for existence a previous house to the O'Donnell kinside, world health organization played the polar role in Irish History. From either a 15th to a 17th century, it provided the independent opposition to the settlement of Ireland by England. the town itself contains a castle & the remains of a franciscan abbey which date back to the 15th century.

. Donegal occurs as occupy town by using numbers of hotels catering for visitant although it suffers from either the want of social agreeableness for its local people. Numbers of use to travel to nearby towns prefer Ballyshannon or even Letterkenny for facilities like public playing pools, cinemas & big plaza. Inside 2005 it was announced that a town's big employer, a U.S company Hospira, were closing down by using a loss of 560 jobs. This was a vast blow to the town & these are judged that it might numbers the local economy 30m Euro.

A town is house to the regional newspaper Donegal Democrat [http://www.donegaldemocrat.com] and the other local newspaper The Donegal Times [http://www.donegaltimes.com]

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