Man in court after telling neighbour: “I’ll put your daughter in a white coffin”
A MAN told neighbours in Letterkenny that he would ‘put your daughter in a white coffin’. Roger Attard was standing in the rain wearing a white t-shirt, jeans and no shoes at 2.40am on October 19, 2019...
View ArticleJudge rejects ‘accidental’ defence after two cars keyed
A LETTERKENNY man who claimed to have accidentally scored the side of two cars has been ordered to compensate the owners. Matt Bromley (31) of 60 Orchard Crescent, Letterkenny, pleaded guilty to two...
View ArticleBench warrant issued for Strabane man due to face assault charge
A BENCH warrant has been issued for a Strabane man after he failed to appear in court to face charges in connection with an alleged assault in Lifford. Sean Wray (20) of 265 Ballycoleman Estate,...
View ArticleFormer Donegal taxi driver to be sentenced on child pornography charges
A FORMER Donegal taxi driver who has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography will be sentenced on Friday. David Martin (52), now of 78 Sylvan Park Letterkenny, was residing at 11 St Jude’s...
View ArticleWoman claimed over €68,000 for three years after father’s death
A WOMAN claimed €68,488 in carer’s allowance and state pension for her late father for nearly three years following his death. Shauna Tynan (53) of 38 Slieve Sneacht Letterkenny has been given a year...
View ArticleMan fined over incident after drinking ‘north of 20 shots of vodka’
A MILFORD man who consumed ’somewhere north of 20 shots of vodka’ has been fined for a public order incident. Lee McLaughlin (24) of 4 Moyle Road, Milford, was before Letterkenny District Court over an...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to false imprisonment and threat to kill
A DONEGAL man has appeared in court on a number of charges including false imprisonment and making a threat to kill. Stephen Roulston (53) of Cavan, Ballindrait, was before Letterkenny Circuit Court,...
View ArticleJudge tells paedo he will go to jail for abusing young footballer
A FORMER youth footballer faced his coach who sexually assaulted him, as the ‘sick and evil actions’ were recalled in court. John Paul Foley, who has waived anonymity, recalled how he has been dealing...
View ArticleFormer Donegal taxi driver jailed for having child pornography
A FORMER Donegal taxi driver has been sent to prison for possessing child pornography. David Martin (52), now of 78 Sylvan Park, Letterkenny has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, with...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for man who aided and abetted Carrigans grow house
A 59-year-old Derryman has been given a one-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the cultivation of cannabis at a grow house in east Donegal. Over 100 marijuana plants were found when Gardaí...
View ArticleDonegal woman in court after altering price tags
A DONEGAL woman who was found guilty of altering price tags in a Letterkenny shop has been fined in court. Gloria McCafferty (40) of Driminin, Barnesmore, was before Letterkenny District Court, where...
View ArticleAbusive man asked Gardaí for brothel, court hears
A DONEGAL man who aggressively waved his fists at Gardaí while shouting ‘who the f*** do you think you are?’ has been fined in court. Joseph Kerr (40) of Monuienegh, Ballyheerin, was before Letterkenny...
View ArticleMan who ‘never had a licence’ in court for road traffic offences
A WATERFORD man who has never had a driving licence was before Letterkenny District Court on road traffic charges this week. Denis Daly (33) of McGuire House, Bath Street in Waterford, was charged with...
View ArticleDonegal man pleads guilty to ramming Garda car
A DONEGAL man has pleaded guilty to a series of charges that include endangerment after driving intentionally into a Garda car while he was over three times the legal drink-drive limit. John Tierney,...
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Men jailed after ‘forgery workshop’ discovered in Letterkenny
TWO Romanian men involved in a sophisticated Easter European crime gang have been sent to prison. Ioan Barbuc (25, pictured above) and Andrei Cecan (32), both with an address at Glenoughty Close,...
View ArticleSuspended sentence after ‘exceptional case of serious crime’ involving knife
A MAN has been spared prison after what a judge described as a brutal onslaught on his former parter in Letterkenny. Judge John Aylmer suspended the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed on...
View ArticleMan threatened to cut off boy’s tongue for misbehaving in shop
A man pulled out a knife in a shop and threatened a 7-year-old boy that he would cut off his tongue for misbehaving. John Boyce appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with having possession of...
View ArticleInsomniac who hadn’t slept for three days woke up after burgling school
An insomniac who hadn’t slept for three days woke up in a school in Co Donegal after causing almost €2,000 of damage to the building. Patrick McNamee broke into the Finn Valley Centre of Education in...
View ArticleJudge dismisses case over fall in Letterkenny nightclub
A High Court judge has dismissed an action against a Letterkenny nightclub after a woman claimed she had slipped on a tiled area of the premises which had been wet with spillages. The plaintiff, Grace...
View ArticleDrunk man abused neighbours for having Northern-registered cars
A drunk Convoy man who challenged his neighbours for having Northern Ireland registered cars has been fined for being intoxicated and using threatening and abusive behaviour. Paul Cooke appeared at...
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