{"id":576434,"date":"2026-07-31T01:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:57:38","slug":"extended-opening-hours-sought-for-new-letterkenny-mcdonalds-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576434\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended opening hours sought for new Letterkenny McDonald&#8217;s outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s has applied for permission to extend the opening hours for its proposed new outlet in Letterkenny.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/property-columnists\/breaking-mcdonalds-given-green-light-for-second-outlet-in-letterkenny-despite-objection-623651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donegal Daily revealed<\/a> An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la gave the green light for a second fast food restaurant and drive-thru with the famous Golden Arches at the Polestar Roundabout. The initial application was passed by Donegal County Council, but an objection was lodged with the planning appeals board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la rejected the appeal and granted permission, subject to 20 conditions. One of those conditions included the limiting of opening hours to 8am \u201311pm.<\/p>\n<p>However, McDonald&#8217;s this week lodged a fresh application to extend the permitted opening times by three hours, from 6am to midnight, seven days per week.<\/p>\n<p>Work is ongoing at the site of the new restaurant, situated between Rossview Business Park and the Polestar Roundabout. <\/p>\n<p>The original application shows that the existing McDonald\u2019s restaurant off the Pearse Road will continue to operate as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s has applied for permission to extend the opening hours for its proposed new outlet in Letterkenny. Back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-576434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}