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BOY SCARRED AFTER BEING HIT WITH TOY BRICK AWARDED €20,000 IN DAMAGES
A BOY hit with a toy brick at a Co Donegal community centre and left scarred as a result has been awarded €20,000 in compensation. The child was struck with the toy at Malin Head Community Centre in...
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MAN THREATENED SENATOR IN MINI-BUS BUST-UP
A man who threatened Fianna Fail Senator Brian O Domhnaill during a late night bust-up on a mini-bus has been ordered to pay €5,000 to charity. Jimmy Sharkey ordered to pay €5,000 donation. Jimmy...
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MAN TO APPEAR IN COURT AFTER SPATE OF BURGLARIES
A man is expected to appear in Carndonagh Court later today charged with burglary offences. The man was arrested by Gardai following a number of alleged incidents in the Termon area. It is understood...
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PARTY-GOER STOLE CAR AND THEN TORCHED IT OUTSIDE HIS OWN HOME
A man thrown out of a house party stole a car, drove it 40 kms and then torched it outside his own home. Letterkenny Court. Sean Deeney appeared before Letterkenny Circuit Court yesterday on a range of...
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MAN WHO BIT GARDA DURING ARREST ORDERED TO PAY €3,000 TO GARDA FUND
A man who bit and assaulted a Gardai as he was being arrested for tampering with his former partner’s car has received a suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay €3,000 to the Garda Benevolent Fund....
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€1M DONEGAL CANNABIS FACTORY RAID: CHINESE MEN PLEAD GUILTY
The warehouse outside Malin Town where drugs were discovered. Two Chinese men have pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis at Donegal’s biggest ever drugs factory. Gou Quing Zhou, of 7 Aran Court,...
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MONEY MISSING AND 200 COMPLAINTS AGAINST DONEGAL SOLICITOR
A CO DONEGAL solicitor has agreed not to practise after an investigation found there was no control or accountability over money going into his office. The was despite a previous investigation over...
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DONEGAL MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ANGLO BANK CHARGES
A CO Donegal man is one of three people who have pleaded not guilty today to charges relating to Anglo Irish Bank. William McAteer, 63, from Auburn Villas, Rathgar in Dublin and originally from...
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DONEGAL GARDA WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED COLLEAGUE FINED €10,000
A Donegal-based Garda who sexually assaulted a fellow female officer and harassed another at a local Garda station has been given a six month jail sentence and fined a total of €10,000. Letterkenny...
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JUDGE EXPRESSES HIS DISAPPOINTMENT THAT INISHOWEN CRASH CASE HAS NOT GONE AHEAD
A Judge has expressed his “considerable disappointment” that the trial of a man in one of Ireland’s most high profile dangerous driving cases has not gone ahead. The crash killed eight people The case...
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LETTERKENNY BUSINESSMAN WINS COURT COSTS IN RESTAURANT AND PUB BATTLE
A Letterkenny businessman has been awarded substantial court costs against his former tenant in a battle over unpaid rent on a bar and restaurant. John G Larkin and his wife Honey outside Letterkenny...
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LEGAL TARIFFS FORCED MAN TO CHANGE PLEA IN SEX OFFENCE CASE
Letterkenny District Court. A 65-year-old man was allowed to change his plea after he became ‘overwhelmed by the tariffs’ involved with his case, a court heard. A sitting of the Letterkenny Circuit...
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HOLIDAY HOME RAMPAGE THUG SENTENCE DEFERRED
A MAN behind behind a €50k rampage through holiday homes in Inishowen will be sentenced in July, a court heard. Bernard McDaid broke into the homes along with two other men – Ashley Nicholl and a third...
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MAN WHO STABBED BROTHER-IN-LAW AT CHAPEL IS JAILED
Ward was found guilty of assault causing harm after he stabbed his brother-in-law. A MAN who stabbed his brother-in-law as he arrived for a memorial Mass has been jailed for ten months. Martin...
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TRIAL BEGINS OF MAN CHARGED WITH LETTERKENNY SEX ASSAULT
The trial has started of a man charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Letterkenny. Letterkenny District Court. The man is charged with sexually assaulting the woman on May 17th, 2010. The man...
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DERRY DUO IN COURT OVER DONEGAL ROBBERIES
TWO Derry men have appeared in court in Letterkenny, charged with carrying out robberies in County Donegal. One of them was later jailed on previous charges after it emerged a bench warrant had been...
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WOMAN ALLEGES SHE ‘WOKE TO FIND PARTNER’S FRIEND TOUCHING HER IN BED’– COURT
A young mother has alleged how she awoke to find her boyfriend’s friend in her bed touching her intimately. Letterkenny Court. The Co Donegal woman found the man touching her breasts and bum and...
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MAN LEFT WITH LIFELONG EPILEPSY AFTER HORRIFIC SINGLE-PUNCH ATTACK
Ryan Gormley: Jailed A young Co Donegal man was left with a brain injury and developed epilepsy which he will have for life after being hit with a single punch, a court has heard. The victim, Denis...
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‘I JUST WANTED A WEE FISH TO EAT’– POACHER TELLS JUDGE
A POACHER caught with a 10lb salmon on the River Finn has told a judge: “I just wanted a wee fish to eat.” John Crawford was caught with the salmon and a net by Garda John O’Sullivan on the River Finn...
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POACHER: ‘MAN IN A WET SUIT ASKED ME TO HOLD SALMON FOR HIM’
A MAN caught by fisheries protection officers with a salmon and a net on the River Finn insisted he hadn’t been poaching – but was just holding them for a man he never met before. Patrick ‘Paddy’...
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