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NO PROSECUTION INTO THE DEATH OF POPULAR YOUNG DONEGAL GAA STAR
The late Conal Gildea There will be no prosecution into the death of popular Ardara GAA player Conal Gildea, who died last year after falling into the River Liffey. The body of the late Conal Gildea...
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DONEGAL WOMAN ‘STOLE ALMOST €40,000 FROM CHEMIST SHOP’
A Ballybofey woman has been charged with stealing almost €40,000 from her employer over a two year period. Letterkenny courthouse. Christine Griffin, who worked as a book-keeper with a local pharmacy,...
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HEE HAW, HEE HAW TO HAVE COME TO COURT!
A Judge has ordered the arrest of a farmer whose donkeys almost caused a crash with a Garda car. Garda Harvey Maughan told Letterkenny District Court that he rounded a sharp bend at Thorn Road in...
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JUDGE PRAISES NIGHTCLUB STAFF AFTER THREE BROTHERS INVOLVED IN ATTACK ON DJ
A DJ at a popular nightclub says he has no doubt he would have been seriously hurt but for the swift actions of security staff after he was attacked by three brothers. The Doherty brothers appeared at...
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GIN MAKES MAN SIN AS HE FINED €100 FOR THEFT
A 47 year old man, who has been “drinking heavily”, has been fined €100 for stealing a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin from Tesco in Letterkenny. Letterkenny courthouse. Philip Donkar admitting taking...
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JUDGE ASKS PARTIES TO ‘FOCUS THEIR MINDS’ IN CASE OF CIVIL SERVANT AT CENTRE...
A Judge has asked those involved in the case of a Donegal-based civil servant charged with accessing information on computers at the Department of Social Protection and passing information to a third...
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JUDGE RELAXES CURFEW TO ALLOW TEEN TO GO TO HALLOWEEN PARTY
A teenager who appeared before Letterkenny District Court is to be allowed to go to a Halloween Ball after a Judge relaxed his curfew hours. Solicitor Patsy Gallagher The 16 year old, who cannot be...
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FAMILY ASK DPP TO REVIEW ROAD CRASH CASE WHICH LED TO DEATH OF TRAGIC PENSIONER
Austin Stewart from Fahan arrives in court in Carndonagh today The family of a pensioner killed in a road crash have asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to review the case after a man appeared in...
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TOURIST BANNED FROM IRELAND AFTER STEALING CHURCH POOR BOX
Not very Christian….Jens Christiansen going into custody THIS is the Danish tourist caught after stealing a poor box from a Co Donegal church. He is Jens Christiansen, from Ledegardskov, Graasten – and...
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MAN GRABBED BUDDHA STATUE BEFORE DROPPING TROUSERS IN CARNDONAGH CHINESE...
The Ocean Court where McGuinness went bonkers A CARNDONAGH man who was ‘out of his mind with drink’ grabbed a statute of Buddha and chucked a table over the counter of a Chinese takeaway, the local...
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COUPLE WIN COURT BATTLE TO BUY THEIR DONEGAL COTTAGE AFTER 16 YEARS FREE RENT
The cottage at Sandfield, Ardara which now officially belongs to the Eastwoods. Pic copyright of North West News Pix. A couple have finally been allowed to buy their 300 year old Co Donegal cottage...
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MAN TO APPEAR IN COURT TONIGHT IN CONNECTION WITH DEATHS OF DONEGAL COUPLE
A man is to appear in court this evening in connection with the deaths of tragic Donegal couple Jimmy and Kathleen Cuddity. Detectives outside of the home where a husband and wife in their 70′s were...
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SON APPEARS IN COURT CHARGED WITH MURDER OF PARENTS
Julian Cuddihy being led into Ballyshannon Court tonight by Detective Garda Bernard Mullins. Pic copyright North West News Pix. A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at...
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DEELE COLLEGE LAUNCH 50th CELEBRATIONS IN SPECTACULAR FASHION
Principal of Deele College Joe Boyle gets into the spirit. George Best was in his debut season as a Manchester united player, The Beatles were sweeping through America and in the town of Raphoe, the...
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JUDGE ISSUES WARRANT FOR ARREST OF HUSBAND WHO HASN’T PAID MAINTENANCE
A JUDGE has ordered the arrest of man who hasn’t made payments towards his ex-partner and their children. The woman in the case told Judge Paul Kelly that arrears of €16,800 was now outstanding....
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STATE AWAITING DIRECTIONS FROM DPP ON INISHOWEN ASSAULT SUSPECT
A MAN accused of stabbing a pensioner in his home will find out on December 16 what charges he will face at his trial. Patrick McLoughlin was stabbed at his home in Convent Road in Carndonagh in May...
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DRINK DRIVER TOLD HE WAS ‘LUCKY YOU DIDN’T KILL SOMEBODY’ DURING GARDA CHASE
A DRINK-driving teenager has apologised to a judge for leading Gardaí on a chase through the Donegal countryside and told him: “I haven’t touched a drink since.” Ryan Ivers, who is 19 and from Dunaff,...
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14 DAYS BEHIND BARS FOR DONEGAL MAN WHO REFUSES TO PAY MAINTENANCE FOR CHILDREN
A CO Donegal man has been jailed for 14 days for refusing to provide for his children. Judge Paul Kelly handed down the sentence at a sitting of Carndonagh District Court. The case was a family law...
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JUDGE DISMISSES SPEEDING CASES AFTER MOTORISTS SAY THEY DIDN’T GET PENALTY...
Judge Paul Kelly A JUDGE has dismissed three alleged speeding offences detected by GoSafe vans, two of them against motorists who said they didn’t get the fixed penalty notices in the post. Judge Paul...
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DRUG GROW HOUSE MAN TOLD: ‘YOU’RE A BIT LONG IN THE TOOTH TO BE DOING THIS’
A JUDGE has reprimanded a 53-year-old man who was attempting to start a cannabis grow house in his house in Donegal. Conal Gillespie admitted having seven half-grown cannabis plants and four dead...
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