DONEGAL VILLAGE DEALT A HAMMER BLOW AS TWO BUSINESSES WOUND UP WITH THE LOSS...
Danny Lafferty’s supermarket in Creeslough this afternoon Breaking News: Danny Lafferty’s battle to save his pub and supermarket business has ended in bitter defeat following today’s decision in the...
View ArticleDONEGAL SINN FEIN MAN TO APPEAR IN COURT OVER IRA HYDE PARK BOMB MURDERS
Donegal Sinn Fein member John Downey to appear again in court on Wednesday A SENIOR Sinn Fein member accused of murdering four British solders in the 1982 IRA bombing at London’s Hyde Park is back in...
View ArticleTAXPAYERS TO FOOT THE BILL FOR MOBILISING DONEGAL GARDAI ON G8 SUMMIT DUTY
Assistant Commissioner Kieran Kenny says Gardai will be on alert over G8 summit in the North GARDAI in Donegal are being mobilised for a massive security operation ahead of the G8 summit in the North....
View ArticleDONEGAL HEROIN DRUG DEALER JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS
Letterkenny Garda chiefs are delighted that Gerard Colhoun is now ‘out of the loop’ GARDAI in Donegal are jubilant after a cog in a drug gang was jailed over a €20,000 heroin bust three years ago. Evil...
View ArticleDONEGAL SINN FEIN MAN TO STAND TRIAL OVER IRA HYDE PARK BOMB MURDERS
Donegal Sinn Fein member John Downey to stand trial over IRA Hyde Park bomb murders A LEADING Donegal Sinn Fein member was told on Wednesday that he is to stand trial charged with murdering four...
View ArticleIMPRISONED JOHN DOWNEY IN ‘GOOD SPIRITS’, SAYS SENIOR FEIN MAN
Donegal Sinn Fein member John Downey is in good spirits, says MP THE LEADING Sinn Fein member from Donegal arrested over the 1982 Hyde Park bomb murders should be released immediately. That’s the call...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: ONE MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF POLISH...
Gardaí investigating the murder of Bogdan Michalkiawicz in Letterkenny have arrested a 37 year old male in the town. The suspect was held last night in connection with the incident. Murdered: Bogdan...
View ArticleSENATOR O DOMHNAILL GRANTED JUDICIAL REVIEW IN EXPENSES INQUIRY
Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has been granted leave to apply for a judicial review regarding an investigation by the Standards in Public Office Commission into expenses claims he made while a...
View ArticleIS HE IN DONEGAL? WARRANT ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF DANA’S BROTHER JOHN BROWN
A MAGISTRATE in London has issued a warrant for the arrest of John Brown, the brother of Dana Rosemary Scallon, after he failed to appear in court on child abuse charges. Brown has addresses at Lilly...
View ArticleBUNDORAN MAN SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR VIOLENT ASSAULT ON GARDA
A DONEGAL man who viciously assaulted a Garda detective and tried to take his gun from him after being arrested at a republican commemoration parade in 2010, has been jailed for 3 years. Pat Barry, who...
View ArticleWEST DONEGAL PENSIONER ON GROSS INDECENCY CHARGES
A 70-year-old man from west Donegal has appeared in court charged with seven alleged sex offences. One charge relates to the alleged indecent assault of a male on a date in June 1984 while the other...
View ArticleLETTERKENNY FAMILY AWARDED €1.3 MILLION IN DAMAGES OVER NEGLIGENCE DURING...
Letterkenny General Hospital A FOUR-year-old girl from Letterkenny, who is severely disabled and has cerebral palsy due to alleged negligence during her birth, has sued the HSE and been awarded...
View ArticleLITTLE SARAH – THE BEAUTIFUL SMILE BEHIND THE LETTERKENNY HOSPITAL NEGLIGENCE...
THIS is little Sarah McFeeley – the little girl whose life was changed after medical negligence at Letterkenny General Hospital. It’s a year ago this month since Donegal Daily reported how Sarah, then...
View ArticleDONEGAL WASTE CRIME BOSS JAILED FOR THREE YEARS
A DONEGAL man who was given the longest-ever jail sentence for illegal dumping in Britain has been sentenced to a further three years behind bars for failing to hand over nearly £600,000 worth of...
View ArticleJOHN GALLAGHER AND BROTHER HE IS ACCUSED OF THREATENING TO KILL APPEAR IN...
A MAN who claims he was threatened with death by his double killer brother sat just yards from him in court today. Donal Gallagher alleges his brother John, who killed Twin Towns mother and daughter...
View ArticleWOMAN SUED BY HER OWN MOTHER IN FARM DISPUTE WINS LANDMARK LEGAL CASE
Nora Kelly A WOMAN sued by her own mother and two brothers over lands in Co Donegal has won the right to keep it. Part-time farmer and nurse Nora Kelly had been left lands outside Letterkenny by her...
View ArticleFORMER DONEGAL PLANNER WINS €25,000 AGAINST GOVERNMENT
The Department of the Environment has agreed to a High Court order overturning its own findings of no evidence of wrongdoing in the planning department of Donegal County Council on dates mostly in the...
View ArticleREVEALED: €100,000 COST OF BITTER CO DONEGAL FARM DISPUTE
Costly: The barn which Dan Gildea claimed – but Mrs Kelly was left by her uncle. She now owns the property TWO brothers and their mother who tried to sue a woman for her land in Co Donegal are facing a...
View ArticleIRELAND’S TOP JUDGE IN LETTERKENNY COURTHOUSE VISIT
Ireland’s most senior Judge – the Chief Justice, the Hon Mrs Justice Susan Denham – together with the Chief Executive Officer of the Courts Service, Brendan Ryan, have launched a new single and...
View ArticleMAN WHO BIT GARDA IN GROIN ORDERED TO PAY €1,000 TO CHARITY
A man who bit a Garda in his groin during a row has been fined €1,000. Lee McDermott, pictured, admitted assaulting Garda Keating during a disturbance at the Euro Spar car-park in Buncrana, Co Donegal...
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