Man charged with assaulting Garda in LIDL
A man has appeared in court charged with assault causing harm to a Garda in Bundoran. Liam Ward, aged 44 and with an address at Westend, Bundoran was brought before a sitting of Tubbercurry District...
View ArticleYoung man in court for doing 168kph in 100kph zone
A young man has appeared in court after being caught by Gardai traveling at 168kph in a 100kph speed zone. Thomas Megaughin appeared at Letterkenny District Court after being stopped by Gardai at the...
View ArticleMan caught driving in the dark put off road for 3 years
A man who was driving in the dark in an erratic manner has been put off the road for three years. Kyle Black appeared at Letterkenny District Court after Gardai caught him driving with no lights at...
View ArticleInvestigation as Donegal man found dead in prison
A Donegal man has been found dead in prison earlier today. The prisoner, who was in his 20s, was found at Castlerea Prison where he was on remand. The man’s family have been informed of his death. A...
View ArticleMedical care demanded for man who torched Garda patrol car
A Judge has reiterated her order for a man accused of the arson of a Garda patrol car to get immediate psychiatric and psychological assessment in prison. Gary McGinley admitted causing more than...
View ArticleMan charged with assaulting Garda in LIDL
A man has appeared in court charged with assault causing harm to a Garda in Bundoran. Liam Ward, aged 44 and with an address at Westend, Bundoran was brought before a sitting of Tubbercurry District...
View ArticleDrunk man who attacked woman in Dunfanaghy avoids jail
A man who assaulted a woman so badly that she was unable to recognise herself has avoided jail after paying his victim more than €10,000. Judge John Aylmer had told Gavin Gallagher that he would...
View ArticleLetterkenny pair face trial over aggravated burglary
A man and a woman will go on trial after being charged with a raft of offences in relation to an incident in Letterkenny last June. Matthew Lafferty and Amanda Coleman appeared before Letterkenny...
View ArticleDonegal couple bring first ‘fast track’ Mica case to court
The first of at least 1,100 legal actions over the mica controversy has been admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court by a Donegal couple. The case is being brought by husband and wife teachers,...
View ArticleJudge “not impressed” with woman who claimed almost €70,000 on dead father’s...
A Judge has said he is “not impressed” with a woman who claimed almost €70,000 on her dead father’s pension but who could not appear in court to answer her case. Shauna Tynan was due to appear at...
View ArticleLetterkenny ‘money mule’ avoids jail after turning his life around
A young Letterkenny man who pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering after he ran up a drugs debt has avoided jail after he completely turned his life around. Eoin McBrearty appeared at...
View ArticleMan jailed for attempting to extort cash from couple after claiming to hold...
A man has been jailed for seven years after demanding €15,000 from a Donegal couple while claiming to be holding one of their relatives hostage. Mark and Michelle Smyth were believed to think that a...
View ArticleDrunk man abused Gardai and threatened people in Lifford
A young man was arrested when he told Gardai to ‘f*** off’ after threatening people on the street in Lifford. Gardai responded to a report of an incident in Lifford on November 11, 2022. Gardai...
View ArticleMan jailed for attempting to extort cash from couple after claiming to hold...
A man has been jailed for seven years after demanding €15,000 from a Donegal couple while claiming to be holding one of their relatives hostage. Mark and Michelle Smyth were believed to think that a...
View ArticleMan jailed for a year for defilement of child when she was aged 15
A Co Donegal man has been jailed for the defilement of a teenage girl in 2011. Ballintra man Richard Walsh was 18 when he attacked the then 15-year-old girl. His victim, Delaney Leech, yesterday waived...
View ArticleDonegal man jailed after violent attack on pizza delivery worker
A Donegal man has been jailed after attacking a pizza delivery man so severely that they needed to be hospitalised. Darius McAteer (21) has been jailed for three years, with the last year suspended,...
View ArticleHairdresser falsely claimed almost €50k with €95,000 already in her accounts
A hairdresser who falsely claimed €48,918.40 in job-seekers allowance over nine years while living at home with her parents already had more than €90,000 in cash in bank and credit union accounts....
View ArticleNational: Man appears in court charged with murder of pregnant woman
A man has appeared in court charged with murdering Natalie McNally in Lurgan. Ms McNally (32) was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Silverwood Green in the County...
View ArticleYoung man caught with ‘cartoon’ images of child pornography avoids jail
A young man who downloaded ‘cartoon’ images of child pornography onto his phone has escaped going to jail. Aaron Davies, 20, appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court after Gardai found ‘Hentai’ on his...
View ArticleDonegal businessman who harassed victim on Facebook jailed for three and a...
A businessman who posted messages on Facebook about a company owner involved in the Strokestown evictions in Co Roscommon in 2018 has been jailed for three and a half years. Pensioner Tom Dignam (72)...
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