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A former Army officer who argued he should have started his new job at a county council higher up the pay scale has lost a claim for alleged unpaid salary. Daniel McChrystal, a former captain in the D
A salesman who submitted it was “humiliating” to be paid less than a younger colleague after 22 years of “loyal and committed” service has won €106,000 in an equality ruling against a Co Donegal hair
A native Irish speaker who bludgeoned his grandfather to death outside his home in the Donegal Gaeltacht continues to suffer from a mental disorder and has been committed to the Central Mental Hospita
A 49-year-old man charged with the murder of former senior Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson, who was shot dead at an isolated Donegal cottage 20 years ago after he was exposed as an MI5 informant, h
A 49-year-old man has been charged at the Special Criminal Court with the murder of Denis Donaldson, a former member of the Provisional IRA and senior Sinn Fein official who was exposed as an MI5 info
(File Picture: Defence Counsel Mr Michael Bowman SC. Photo: Collins) Lawyers for a Donegal man who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering his grandfather have reminded a jury that a
A judge has responded to a plea to consider the sporting achievements of an athlete caught with over €80,000 in drugs by remanding him in custody and telling his counsel: “I don’t care if he was runni
A native Irish speaker described to gardai how he "smacked" a granite stone off his 78-year-old grandfather's head outside his home in the Donegal Gaeltacht before using a cement block to "finish it o
A 39-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering his grandfather in the Donegal Gaeltacht over two years ago. A prosecuting barrister told the trial of Derek Mulligan today
A cancer patient who claimed her employer of 20 years cut her hours because it no longer wanted her as the “face” of the business after she was treated for a facial tumour has won €20,000 for disabili
(Pictured: John Edward McNicholl (L) & Seamus Christopher O’Kane (R). Photo: Collins) The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to extradite two men to Northern Ireland for offences related to the mur
A young Carlow woman may be ordered to carry out community service in lieu of a 16 month jail term for money laundering after her bank account was used in order to facilitate a large social welfare fr
A senator "intervened" to see if a promotion for an Inland Fisheries employee who was to be a “key witness” in a garda probe into alleged fraud in the organisation could be blocked, its ousted former
The former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has said he made a statement to gardaí that he was “being blackmailed” by a sitting senator in a bid to force him to reinstate a suspended senior
A mentally ill Brazilian man followed a young woman around Dublin Airport and sexually assaulted her by sniffing her hair, hugging and kissing her, a court has heard. Rogerio Afonso (56) was not takin
A young Carlow woman will be sentenced next week for money laundering after her bank account was used in order to facilitate a large social welfare fraud. Carlow Circuit Criminal Court heard that Dion
A hearing date has been set for appeals by Alan Vial and Nikita Burns, who were convicted of murdering Robert Robin' Wilkin before his body went over some of Europe's tallest cliffs at Sliabh Liag in
By Declan Brennan A Donegal man who was on bail for defilement of a child when he sexually assaulted his partner's best friend while she slept on a sofa in his home has been jailed for seven years. Ri
A man who defiled a teenager – having sex with her in his car after bringing her for a “spin” – has been jailed for a year and a half. The 25-year-old Donegal man, who cannot be named to protect the a
A woman who was regularly raped by her brother-in-law has said the abuse meant that she never got the chance to grow into the person she was meant to be and she is now constantly fighting to stay aliv
The High Court has ruled that the case of a convicted sex offender wanted in Northern Ireland for an historic driving offence after he was released from prison on license is an “exceptional” one, as i
(Pictured: Victim's sister Ms Sharon Lynn. Photo: Collins) By Niamh O’Donoghue and Declan Brennan An “infuriated” motorcyclist who killed his neighbour by punching him once to the head in an unprovoke
(File Picture: Shaun O'Donnell. Photo: Collins) A man who was jailed for eight years for raping a woman as she slept in bed beside her boyfriend and her newborn baby has failed in a bid to have his co
(Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring. Photo: Collins) A judge has noted that, in the last month alone, "two young men from good families with no previous convictions" have ended up serving prison sentences for
By Claire Henry and Eimear Dodd A man who stripped the innocence' from his little sister when he sexually abused her over 20 years ago, has been jailed for three years. The Central Criminal Court hear
(Pictured: Survivor Ms Sinéad O'Neill. Photo: Collins) A criminal who assaulted, raped and coercively controlled his partner during a six-week relationship in which she endured “violence and extreme d
A money mule recruiter has received a consecutive 21-month prison sentence after a court found he was "up to his neck" in laundering €100,000 stolen as part of a series of invoice redirection scams. T
A serial rapist with previous convictions for stalking and attacking women has been sentenced to five years in prison for raping an 18-year-old woman, after a court heard that he has been diagnosed wi
By Declan Brennan A Donegal man who admitted sexually assaulting his partner's best friend while she slept on a sofa in his home has been remanded in custody for sentence next January. Richard Walsh (
By Claire Henry A UK national has been jailed for his role in transporting just under half a million euros worth of cannabis from Thailand, destined for Donegal. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard th
(Pictured: John Edward McNicholl (L) Seamus Christopher O'Kane (R). Photo: Collins) by Fiona Magennis Lawyers representing two men wanted in Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the murder of
Pictured: Judge Martin Nolan jailed the defendant after noting that his problems were "of his own creation". (Photo: Collins) By Sonya McLean A man who was caught transporting just under €500,000 wort
(Pictured: Michael Carter. Photo: Collins) A Donegal man has lost an appeal against his conviction for raping and sexually assaulting his daughter when she was a child, with the court finding that evi
By Eimear Dodd and Claire Henry A violent rapist who was handed an 11-year sentence last month for harassing three female journalists has been told he will spend an extra ten months in prison. Mark Mc
An Arranmore Island co-operative worker who claimed she was forced out of her job, alleging its then-chairperson “slighted” her in public with a remark about “cute hoorism”, has failed in a constructi
A judge has denied legal aid for a third senior barrister to represent each of the Sliabh Liag murderers Alan Vial and Nikita Burns in their bid to overturn their convictions, noting he had to have “s
(Pictured L-R: Victims Amanda Brunker, Deirdre Reynolds Nicola Tallant. Credit: Collins) By Claire Henry and Eimear Dodd A violent rapist with previous convictions for kidnapping who harassed three fe
(Pictured: John Edward McNicholl (L) and Seamus Christopher O'Kane (R). Photo: Collins) Two men in their 70s have been granted leave to appeal their court-ordered extradition to Northern Ireland, wher
A Donegal man who raped and sexually abused his daughter when she was a child has appealed his conviction, with his legal team arguing that a statement by the injured party’s aunt should not have been
(Pictured: Kevin McMenamin. Photo: Collins) An ex-Donegal GAA star with a history of driving offences, who was banned from the roads when he broke a red light in a lorry and ran over a cyclist – leavi
By Fiona Magennis A criminal has appealed his conviction for raping, assaulting and coercively controlling a woman during a six-week relationship in which she endured “violence and extreme degradation
(File Picture: Kevin McMenamin. Photo: Collins) A serial offending ex-Donegal GAA star who was banned from driving when he broke a red light and ran over a cyclist, causing injuries so severe she had
Paul Neilan The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by a group of commercial fishermen who argued that the State had a duty of care when granting access to mussel seed fishing zones in the State after
(Pictured: John Edward McNicholl (L) and Seamus Christopher O'Kane (R). Photo: Collins) Two men in their 70s will be surrendered to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the murder of an RUC of
(Pictured: Victim Robin Wilkin's sister Irene McAleer and brother David speaking outside court today. Photo: Collins) The sister of Robin Wilkin has said she feels overwhelmed by the lack of remorse s
(File Picture: Victims Amanda Brunker (L) & Nicola Tallant (R). Credit: Collins) By Claire Henry A rapist with previous convictions for kidnapping and violence against women harassed three female Sund
Former lovers Alan Vial and Nikita Burns have both been found guilty of murdering 66-year-old Robert Robin' Wilkin, whose body was thrown over the cliffs at Sliabh Liag, one of Donegal's most popular
Alan Vial and Nikita Burns had just beaten Robert ‘Robin’ Wilkin’s head in with a rock when they came up with their plan – to cast the body off Ireland’s tallest cliffs. They were pulled in on the Ros
A jury has asked for an explanation of the legal definition of joint enterprise as they consider the evidence in the trial of two former lovers accused of murdering a 66-year-old man, whose body was p
If either of two former lovers is not guilty of murdering 66-year-old Robert Robin' Wilkin, whose body was put over Ireland's tallest cliffs, they could be found guilty of impeding the prosecution of
(Pictured: Trial judge Mr Justice Paul McDermott. Photo: Collins) A jury has been warned that it could be dangerous to act on the testimony of a man who has blamed his former lover and co-accused for
A "smouldering resentment" exploded into violence in which a murder accused struck a 66-year-old man six or seven times on the head with a rock before putting him over Ireland's tallest cliffs, a barr
A barrister has described a murder accused as a "cynical liar" who is attempting to make fools of a jury by claiming that he did not lay a finger on 66-year-old Robert Robin' Wilkin, whose head was be
(Pictured: State Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster. Photo: Collins) A 66-year-old man would not have died immediately from two skull fractures that the State alleges were inflicted with a rock before he w
The trial of Alan Vial and Nikita Burns, who deny murdering 66-year-old Robert Robin' Wilkin before his body was put over Ireland's tallest cliffs, has been adjourned for ten days to allow lawyers in
A murder accused who has claimed that it was his former lover and co-accused who beat 66-year-old Robert Robin' Wilkin to death with a rock – and that she helped put his body over Ireland's tallest cl
A man accused of murdering a 66-year-old and putting his body over the cliffs at Sliabh Liag in Donegal has accepted he lied to gardai when he claimed the pensioner had sexually assaulted his co-accus
A man has taken the stand in his own defence to tell his murder trial that he was fighting with a pensioner – whose body was found in the waters beneath Sliabh Liag – when his former lover and co-accu
A geologist has told a murder trial that she used Google Street View to help identify the possible source of a bloodied rock that was allegedly used to fracture a pensioner's skull before his body wen
The brother of a woman accused of murdering a pensioner whose body went over Ireland's highest cliffs has told the Central Criminal Court that he was concerned his sister was not taking her medication
A man accused of murdering a pensioner whose body was found at the foot of Ireland's tallest cliffs told gardai that the discovery was ironic, as the deceased "always wanted to be buried at sea". The