ARDARA MAN HAD CANNABIS IN A&E OF LETTERKENNY HOSPITAL
AN Ardara man has pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis – at the Emergency Department of Letterkenny General Hospital. Donal Grace, who is 52 and from Edergole in the town, was arrested by Gardai at...
View ArticleNEIGHBOUR FROM HELL BATTERED AT DOOR OF 81-YEAR-OLD PENSIONER
A DRUNKEN man who battered on the door of an 81-year-old neighbour in the early hours of the morning has appeared in court. Geoffrey Curran, from Ard Lonan, Long Lane in Letterkenny was arrested by...
View ArticleLETTERKENNY MAN WAS DRUNK AND ABUSIVE, COURT HEARS
A LETTERKENNY man who used threatening and abusive behaviour towards Gardai “didn’t get out much” a court has heard. Theo Crossan, 3 Oakswood Park, Lismonaghan, admitted being drunk and disorderly and...
View ArticleDONEGAL RALLY FAN DIDN’T HAVE NCT OR VALID DRIVING LICENSE
A RALLY fan visiting Donegal for the rally didn’t even have a full driving license, Letterkenny Court has heard. Paul Keenan, from 40 Clooneevan, Haggardstown, Blackrock, Co Louth, appeared in court on...
View ArticleMAN WRECKED FOUR LANTERNS WHILST OUT ON BAIL FOR RIOT
The scene of the 2011 riot A JUDGE has given a criminal extra time behind bars after learning that he was out on bail when involved in two acts of criminal damage – one of them involving an attack on a...
View ArticleWOMAN WALKED OUT OF SUPERMARKET WITH WHISKEY AND VODKA
A Letterkenny woman was stopped by Gardai after she walked out of a supermarket with a bottle of vodka and whiskey. The case was heard at Letterkenny District Court. Ann-Marie Donegan, of Bomany, was...
View ArticleKILLER TO FIND OUT IF LEGAL AID GRANTED TO ATTEND INQUEST INTO GIRL WHO WENT...
The man cleared of killing a 15-year-old schoolgirl who went missing in Donegal almost 20 years ago will learn next week if he has been granted legal aid to be represented at an inquest into her...
View ArticleFORMER COUNCILLOR ATTACKED BOSSES AFTER HE WAS FIRED
Former county councillor Gareth Reid FORMER Donegal County Councillor Gareth Reid has admitted assaulting two company directors after he was fired from his job. Letterkenny District Court heard the...
View ArticleNOTORIOUS CRIMINAL FINED €1,500 FOR DRIVING OFFENCES
A notorious young Letterkenny criminal has been fined a total of €1,500 after appeairng in court on a series of driving offences. Matthew Lafferty Matthew Lafferty, 21, is currently in jail and is not...
View ArticleNEWMILLS MAN WITH ‘CARELESS ATTITUDE’ TO DRIVING FINED €250
A judge told a Newmills man that he had a very casual attitude to the road traffic act. Devine appeared at Letterkenny District Court. Noel Devine was before Letterkenny District Court on a charge of...
View ArticleDUNFANAGHY MAN IN COURT ON TESCO THEFT CHARGE
A MAN from Dunfanaghy has appeared in court charged with theft. Letterkenny District Court heard that Mingfei Guo, with an address at The Great Wall Chinese Takeaway, Dunfanaghy, was arrested at Tesco...
View ArticleARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR MAN ON FLICK-KNIFE CHARGE
A JUDGE has issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to appear in court on a knife charge. Flavius Jeler, whose address was given as Deva City, Hunedoara, Romania, was arrested by Garda Stephen...
View ArticleMAN WAS LYING DRUNK ON THE ROAD OUTSIDE PULSE NIGHTCLUB
A JUDGE has praised Gardai who arrested a man lying drunk on the road outside Letterkenny’s Pulse Nightclub. Fifty-year-old James Reddan, from Meenaclady, Meelaragh, Co Donegal was found on the road on...
View ArticleDRINK-DRIVING DENTAL NURSE DROVE WRONG WAY UP STREET
A DRINK-driving dental nurse has been banned from the roads for two years after driving the wrong way up a one-way street. Brenda Keenan was spotted by Gardai as she left The Grill nightclub car park...
View ArticleCRAZED COCAINE CRIMINAL HEAD-BUTTED AND BIT GARDA
A THUG who bit and then head butted a Garda has appeared in court on several different charges. Michael Devlin, from Manor Court in Convoy, pleaded guilty to charges relating to incidents on separate...
View ArticleMAN DENIES THEFT OF €6,500 TRAILER
A man has appeared in court charged with the theft of a trailer. Owen Hegarty denied the theft of a triple axle trailer, valued at €6,500 at Creggan, Ballybofey on January 29, 2012. The 33-year-old...
View ArticleSTEERING RACK OF FARMER’S CAR WAS HELD TOGETHER WITH BALING CORD
William McGeehan SOME farmers use baling cord to keep their trousers up. But Co Donegal farmer William McGeehin used it….to keep his car on the road. Garda Inspector Michael Harrison told Letterkenny...
View ArticleSTUDENT HAS ‘ANGER ISSUES EXACERBATED BY DRINK’
A BUSINESS student rowed with Gardai after being spat on by a man, a court has heard. Natalie McGranaghan, from Leitir Ard in Letterkenny, appeared at the town’s District Court accused of using...
View ArticleMAN WAS CAUGHT DRINK-DRIVING AGAIN ON THE SAME DAY HE WAS IN COURT...
A CO Donegal man has been banned from driving for six years after admitting drink-driving on the same day he was bailed – for a previous drink-driving offence Paul Crossan, from Derrora, Churchill, was...
View ArticleMUM CAUGHT 3 TIMES DRIVING WITHOUT LICENCE OR INSURANCE
A JUDGE has ordered a probation report on a single mum caught driving without insurance or a licence on three different occasions. Thirty-year-old Dagmara Korytkowska, from Lawnsdale, Ballybofey, was...
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