Seven things: You know you’re from Donegal when …

Geography is a strong point

Doctors, engineers, software developers, scientists, and lawyers aren’t bad at what they do, so all credit to them, but nobody is more skilled than a Donegal postman.

"The Fairies, Fairyland, Buncrana," once found its recipient at Swan Park and Rory Kavanagh, Donegal’s 2012 All-Ireland winning midfielder saw an envelope with “Rory Kavanagh, the fella who was in the storm in Fiji” come through his Letterkenny letterbox. 

Of course, these new-fangled Eircodes are for upstarts and wannabes, with many preferring the traditional: “Go over the second brae and from there you’ll see a field with two cows and six sheep, well up that hill there’s a house. So it’s not that one it’s the house three past it.”

With a fondness for signposts, Donegal isn't shy about using them

Things can be difficult, with signposts for Castlefinn and Castlefin, Dunglow and Dungloe, and, be honest, does anyone actually know how to spell Glencolmcille, Gleann Cholm Cille, Glencolumbkille? But that’s not important, because the postman knows where it is.