{"id":57657,"date":"2025-09-11T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/57657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:28:07","slug":"loving-it-second-mcdonalds-on-the-menu-for-letterkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/57657\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving it! Second McDonald\u2019s on the menu for Letterkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letterkenny could be getting a new McDonald\u2019s restaurant and drive-thru, with planning permission sought for a second outlet on the town\u2019s Port Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A site beside Rossview Business Park and the Polestar Roundabout has been designated as the potential home of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>But it will be at least the new year before work can begin on any new Golden Arches outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Local developer PJ McDermott is seeking permission to demolish a two-storey house and a single-storey commercial building to make way for the single-storey drive-through restaurant and car park.<\/p>\n<p>The application shows that the existing McDonald\u2019s restaurant off the Pearse Road will continue to operate and that the owner will make efficient use of their service vehicle fleet by conducting \u2018drops\u2019 at both restaurants in the one journey.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal County Council gave the green light for the development in August, subject to 19 conditions including the limiting of opening hours to 8am \u2013 11pm.<\/p>\n<p>However, the plans have faced a new setback with an appeal lodged by nearby business owner, Eddie Tobin.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tobin has objected to the development due to traffic concerns, including the site\u2019s proximity to the Polestar roundabout. He states that vehicles coming from the roundabout will turn into third-party properties because there is no right turn into the proposed site.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tobin also objects to the proposed traffic management system and the design of the building, which he believes lacks \u201carchitectural quality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The plans and appeal are now being considered by An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la. The case is due to be decided in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal\u2019s first and only McDonald\u2019s has been operating in Letterkenny since November 12, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Loving it! Second McDonald\u2019s on the menu for Letterkenny was last modified:  September 11th, 2025 by Rachel McLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letterkenny could be getting a new McDonald\u2019s restaurant and drive-thru, with planning permission sought for a second outlet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15340,9,10,669,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,11165,41686,15,16,10586,5,3525,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-57657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-application","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donegal-news","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-letterkenny","21":"tag-letterkeny","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-mcdonalds","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-planning-permission","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}