Man who refused to answer Judge or Gardai and acted like statue is jailed
A man who refused to answer a Judge or Gardai and acted like a statue when arrested has been jailed for two months. Andrew Phillips appeared before Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal for...
View ArticleMan’s car became airborne during high-speed Garda pursuit
A Letterkenny man has been ordered to do 120 hours community service after what was described as an “appalling case” involving a high-speed chase through areas of the town. Gardai had detected John...
View ArticleMan who terrorised ex-partner sent a phone by taxi from prison to intimidate her
A prisoner sent a phone by taxi to his partner’s home so he could intimidate her. Vincent McDonagh refused to accept his relationship with his ex-partner Donna Flanagan was over. The 25-year-old...
View ArticleJudge jails pensioner for six months after he attacks neighbour in row over...
A pensioner has been jailed for six months after he battered his next-door neighbour in an ongoing feud which started over a woman. Patrick Gill, 70, admitted to brutally attacking Sean Morrison at his...
View ArticleJudge refuses Garda objections and grants Donegal nightclub a Christmas night...
A Judge has saved Christmas for hundreds of revelers after he granted a premises the only drinks license for Donegal for Christmas night. The Limelight Nightclub in Glenties had been refused the...
View ArticleUp to 45 drink-driving cases to resume in Donegal after Supreme Court decision
Drink driving prosecutions which had been adjourned in Donegal will be brought before the local courts after a Supreme Court ruling today. A challenge to a drink-driving prosecution in Dublin had put...
View ArticleDonegal man admits the illegal removal of claws from puppy
A Donegal man admitted the illegal removal of dew claws from a St Bernard puppy. At Letterkenny District Court, David Houston of Meadowfield Manor, Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal was given the benefit...
View ArticleMan charged with possession of hurley with intent to cause injury
The case of a Letterkenny man charged with having possession of a hurley stick with intent to cause injury has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Nathan McGinley, aged 21, appeared at...
View ArticleFirst cases to be heard today at Donegal’s new €12M courthouse
The new €12M courthouse in Letterkenny is to hold its first sitting today. The building which is located at High Road, has four courtrooms, two more than the old building on Justice Walsh Road. Today’s...
View ArticleDonegal woman wins High Court challenge to plant hedge around her home
A Donegal mother of two, who was prohibited by the planning authorities from planting a hedge around her Inishowen home, has won a High Court challenge against an Bord Pleanála. Wendy Tweed and her...
View ArticleMan charged with murdering wife allegedly controlled, degraded and...
A man living in the east Donegal village of Convoy who is charged with murdering his wife on a family boating holiday allegedly subjected her to “controlling, degrading and manipulating” treatment, the...
View ArticleMum-of-six damaged Garda car during drunken attack on Christmas night
A mother of six who kicked the windows of a Garda car with her high heels when she was arrested on Christmas night has escaped going to jail. Melissa Darby was arrested by Gardai in Ballybofey when...
View ArticleMum of 11 gets suspended jail sentence for sixth theft conviction
A mother of 11, who received her sixth theft conviction in Buncrana Court, was given a two month suspended jail sentence. Kathleen McDonagh, 63, of the Big Isle, Manorcunningham, was charged with...
View ArticleTwo charged after Letterkenny incident in which Garda car damaged
Two people have appeared in court charged in connection with an incident which resulted in a Garda patrol car being damaged. The pair, a man and a woman, appeared at Sligo District Court facing charges...
View ArticleJudge slams carer who had got job seeker’s payment with €135,291 in bank
A Judge has slammed a carer who claimed €23,687 in job benefits but had more than €135,000 in her bank account. Marian Sweeney came to the attention of the Department of Social Protection when she...
View ArticleBail refused for Dungloe man who repeated threats to kill neighbour
Bail was refused in the case of a Dungloe man, who appeared in court charged with threatening to kill his next door neighbour. Anthony Ward was before Letterkenny District Court after making repeated...
View Article70 year old conman used bogus credit cards for hotel stays in Co Donegal
A fraudster pensioner who claimed he was recruited to a gang behind a €52,000 scam because of his gambling addiction enjoyed hotel stays in Donegal using bogus credit cards. Serial criminal Patrick...
View Article‘Gladiatorial feel’ after ‘ill-advised, alcohol-fuelled’ knife incident
Two Ballybofey men in their 50s have been ordered to stay away from each other after an incident that saw one of them attack the other wielding a knife. Letterkenny District Court heard that Kenneth...
View ArticleLetterkenny man jailed for planting bomb under van
A Letterkenny father-of-four who planted a pipe bomb underneath the van of a Co Fermanagh man was given a two-year sentence yesterday. Sending 33-year-old Sean McVeigh to prison, Judge David McFarland...
View ArticleWarm car bonnet gives the game away for drunk-driver
A Garda caught a suspected drink-driver after feeling the bonnet of his car was warm in a petrol station forecourt. Brian MacCuillin, 65, of 189 Culmore Road, Derry, appeared in court charged with...
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