Jail for men who stole diesel, robbed shop and crashed car
Two men who went on a robbery spree before crashing their car into a roundabout wrote a letter to a Judge pleading with him not to jail them. Ryan Harkin and John Paul Gormley fled from a petrol...
View ArticleMan stopped car within an inch of Garda’s foot at checkpoint
A man who was anxious to get home to feed his child stopped within an inch and a half of a Garda’s foot at a checkpoint. Patrick McDonagh appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with failing to...
View ArticleDerry police given more time by Courts to question man over murder of Donegal...
POLICE have been given more time by a court in Derry to question a man arrested on suspicion of the murder of a mother on a boating holiday. Luna McKinney, aged 35 and from Co Donegal, was in a hired...
View ArticleBreaking: Man living in Convoy village is charged with murder of wife
A MAN arrested in Derry last week has been charged with murdering his wife. Stephen McKinney has been in custody at Strand Road police in Derry since late last week where he was being questioned by...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to dangerous driving causing deaths of two friends
A Ballybofey man has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of two friends. Dermot Dowd, 24, of Donegal Road, Ballybofey, appeared at Letterkenny Circuit...
View ArticleMan who snatched handbag from widow is jailed for a year
A woman whose husband had just died was attacked and robbed on the first night she went out to socialise since his death. Kathleen Granaghan was walking to a charity function in Bundoran, Co Donegal,...
View ArticleDonegal man charged with murdering wife appears in court
A 41-year-old Donegal man has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife during a boating holiday at Lough Erne in April 2017. Lu Na McKinney, who is originally from China, was on holiday in...
View ArticleMan who operated taxi for 30 years claimed he was giving fare money to charity
A pensioner who was operating a taxi without a license for 30 years claims he was giving all his earnings to charity. 73-year-old Angus Stewart appeared at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to stealing €315,000 from supermarket
A man who stole more than €315,000 from a Ballybofey Supermarket has appeared in court. Wayne Johnston, appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court today charged with misappropriating the cash from Cost...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in connection to Malin Head cannabis growhouse
A man has pleaded guilty in connection to the sale and supply of cannabis following the discovery of a cannabis grow-house at Malin Head. Juan Fitzpatrick appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court on two...
View ArticleMan who suffered brain damage after cocaine and brandy binge at brother’s...
A young man who took a concoction of cocaine and brandy at his brother’s wedding and suffered five heart attacks has escaped going to jail for drug-dealing. Gerard O’Brien was caught with more than...
View ArticleRetired Garda jailed for ‘vile and evil’ abuse of former colleagues
A retired Donegal garda sergeant has been jailed for two months, for launching what a judge described as a tirade of “vile and evil” abuse at some of his ex-colleagues. In jailing 63-year-old ex-garda...
View ArticleBoy threatened and robbed elderly woman at knifepoint in bedroom
A boy who crept into a woman’s bedroom before threatening her at knifepoint and stealing her phone and handbag has been ordered to stay away from anybody with a criminal record. The boy, who is 17...
View ArticleMan pleads not guilty to setting fire to apartment block
A young Letterkenny man has pleaded not guilty to setting fire to an apartment block. Sean Strain, aged 21, appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court where a jury was sworn in for the case. Mr Strain...
View ArticlePensioner remanded in jail for battering his neighbour in ongoing dispute
A pensioner who battered his next-door neighbour in an ongoing feud has been remanded in jail while a Judge decides what sentence to give him. Patrick Gill, 69, admitted to brutally attacking Seamus...
View ArticleState halts case against young man accused of €126,000 arson attack
A case against a young Letterkenny man charged with arson of an apartment block has been halted after a representation by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Sean Strain of Ros Suighle, Oldtown, had...
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Drug gang members from Donegal sentenced after £500K haul
Two Donegal men stopped by police in Belfast in possession of more than an estimated half a million pounds worth of cocaine and herbal cannabis were sentenced at Laganside Crown Court today. Dominic...
View ArticleMan who mugged retired Letterkenny postmaster is jailed for four years
A retired postmaster has told how he cannot go out at night after he was viciously assaulted while walking back to his home on St Patrick’s Day. Ed Margey was punched from behind and repeatedly...
View ArticleDonegal man assaulted fiancee just minutes after they got engaged
A Letterkenny man who assaulted his fiancee just minutes after they got engaged in Derry on Sunday night has been given a suspended jail sentence. Sean Fahey (48), from Slievesnaght Road, was given a...
View ArticleMan whose father was murdered by IRA went on crime spree in Donegal
A man who turned to a life of crime after his father was murdered by the IRA has been jailed for three years after going on a crime spree in Co Donegal. Gary Brodie had to be extradited back to Ireland...
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