Man gets four year road ban after pursuit damages Garda car
A man has been put off the road for four years for his part in a pursuit that resulted in a Garda patrol car being damaged. Gardai were on patrol at Ballymaleel, Letterkenny, on September 12, 2015 with...
View ArticleConvoy man to stand trial for alleged assault
A Convoy man will stand trial for a serious assault in Letterkenny. Kyle Leeper was before Letterkenny District Court this week. Leeper is charged with assault causing harm during an incident on...
View ArticlePensioner, 76, told Gardai he would shoot person who told them he was drinking
A 76-year-old pensioner told Gardai he would shoot whoever told them he had been drinking after he was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. James Duffy appeared at Falcarragh District Court after he...
View ArticleCourt dismisses medical negligence claim against Letterkenny breast clinic
A High Court ruling has found no medical negligence in the case of a woman who sued the HSE for an alleged delay in her breast cancer diagnosis. Ms Catriona Crumlish (41) of St Finian’s Park, Moville,...
View ArticleStudent who crashed car while drunk is fined and put off road
A drunk student who crashed his car after he lost control of it on a sweeping bend has been fined and banned from driving. Conor Coyle, 20, appeared before Falcarragh District Court following the...
View ArticleJudge pleads for more communication between legal parties before court
A Donegal judge has pleaded with legal practitioners and Gardai to communicate more before bringing cases to court. Judge Ms Éiteáin Cunningham made her remarks at a sitting of Buncrana District Court....
View ArticleMan caught with child abuse images after USB key left in Letterkenny hostel
A man has been charged with possessing child sex abuse images after leaving a USB key behind in a room of a Letterkenny hostel. Robert Browne was caught after staff at the Apple Hostel in Letterkenny...
View ArticleAnti-vaxxer Mureddu banned from road after driving offences in Donegal
Prominent anti-vaccine campaigner Antonio Mureddu has been disqualified from driving after being found guilty of road traffic offences in Donegal. Mureddu was apprehended after his red Alfa Romeo...
View ArticleDrunk driver who drove wrong way up one-way street put off road
A man who drove the wrong way up a one-way road in Letterkenny while drunk has been put off the road. Garda Kerry Leneghan told Letterkenny District Court that at 12.05am on December 19, 2021 she...
View ArticleBare-chested motorist who drove up onto footpath is banned
A bare-chested man who drew the attention of Gardai when he drove onto a footpath was found to be almost four times over the legal drink-drive limit. Ionut Girip has been disqualified for three years...
View ArticleFisherman convicted after untagged salmon found in boot of vehicle
A former salmon draft net licence holder has been found guilty of two breaches of fisheries legislation when he was found to be in possession of 13 untagged salmon in the boot of his vehicle. Liam...
View ArticleDonegal man to stand trial on 84 alleged sex assault charges
A man has been sent forward for trial on 84 alleged sex assault charges. The man appeared at today’s siting of Letterkenny District Court. A number of the alleged offences took placed at a specified...
View ArticleMan drunk on horse and cart ordered to do safer driving course
A man who was caught driving his horse and cart to get cigarettes while drunk has been ordered to do a safer driving course. Danny Connors, 48, appeared before Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal...
View ArticleDrunken prankster charged after lorry crashes into dangerous roadsign
A drunken prank saw a lorry driver have a miraculous escape after his vehicle ploughed into a garage forecourt sign. The metal sign was left dangerously in the middle of a busy road near a filling...
View ArticleMan in court today after serious assault in Glencolmcille
A man will appear at Glenties District Court this morning in relation to a serious assault in Glencolmcille on Sunday night. The man in his 20s was arrested after a man was left with serious injuries...
View ArticleDelays in DPP’s office adding to logjam sorting Donegal cases
Delays from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are adding to a logjam of court cases in Donegal. At a sitting of Letterkenny District Court, Sergeant Jim Collins said that the...
View ArticleBench warrant issued for alleged Letterkenny drug dealer
A bench warrant has been issued for a Letterkenny man wanted in connection with the sale and supply of drugs in the town. Adrian Mitchell failed to appear at this week’s sitting of Letterkenny District...
View ArticleNet closes on father and son’s illegal poaching operation on famous Donegal...
A covert operation resulted in two Donegal men getting caught and fined for possessing 16 illegal salmon nets near the River Drowes outside Bundoran. The investigation, carried out by Inland Fisheries...
View ArticleThree in court after group attacked in Letterkenny Town Park
Three people have been charged following an incident that saw three people seriously assaulted in the Bernard McGlinchey Town Park in Letterkenny. Two of the trio also face a charge of allegedly...
View ArticleLetterkenny man pleads guilty to animal cruelty of a foal
A Letterkenny man has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. Danny Connors appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court in relation to the incident which took place at Canal Road in Letterkenny on January 16th,...
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