Cases and rulings mentioning Letterkenny from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
Central Criminal Court
2026-03-27
Courts News Ireland
A 39-year-old man from Gweedore in County Donegal has been found not guilty of murdering his grandfather by reason of insanity following a majority jury verdict at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant was charged with the death of his 78-year-old grandfather at...
Central Criminal Court
2026-03-25
Courts News Ireland
A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle in County Donegal's Gaeltacht has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity following a jury verdict at the Central Criminal Court in March 2026. Derek Mulligan was charged with the fatal assault of his grandfather, Derek Burns,...
Central Criminal Court
2026-03-24
Courts News Ireland
A 39-year-old man from Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 78-year-old grandfather at Carrickcoyle on 19 December 2023. The Central Criminal Court jury heard that the accused described using a granite stone and cement...
Central Criminal Court
2026-03-23
Courts News Ireland
A 39-year-old man from Carrickcoyle, Derrybeg in County Donegal has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his grandfather, Derek Burns, aged 78, who died on 19 December 2023 following an assault at the family home. The accused also pleaded not guilty by...
Court of Appeal
2026-03-16
Courts News Ireland
The Court of Appeal has upheld extradition orders against two men wanted in Northern Ireland for offences connected to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and Seamus Christopher O'Kane, aged 74, of...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-03-06
Courts News Ireland
A 23-year-old Carlow woman may avoid imprisonment through community service following her guilty plea to money laundering charges at Carlow Circuit Criminal Court. Dion Timmons of Graiguecullen admitted to handling proceeds of crime when her bank account was used to facilitate...
Courts Reporting Scheme
2026-02-26
Courts News Ireland
A 23-year-old woman from Carlow has pleaded guilty to money laundering following her involvement in a significant social welfare fraud originating in Letterkenny, Donegal. The accused was approached whilst at college and persuaded to provide her bank account details under the...
High Court
2026-02-05
Courts News Ireland
The High Court has refused the State's application for leave to appeal a decision declining to extradite a convicted sex offender to Northern Ireland. Mr Justice Patrick McGrath ruled that the case was exceptional, finding it would be disproportionate to order the surrender of...
Workplace Relations Commission
2025-12-16
Courts News Ireland
A paramedic in Letterkenny has secured an award of €32,000 for racial discrimination from the Workplace Relations Commission following her dismissal over an incident at a petrol station. The EMT was fired for gross misconduct after allegedly permitting a patient to smoke during...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2025-11-18
Courts News Ireland
A 27-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in laundering proceeds from invoice redirection scams. Adeleke Adelani pleaded guilty to laundering €100,397 in criminal cash during...
Central Criminal Court
2025-11-14
Courts News Ireland
A 37-year-old man from Castlefin, County Donegal, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court for the rape of an 18-year-old woman at an address in Convoy on 14 January 2018. Desmond Leitch was found guilty by jury following a trial in which...
Court of Appeal
2025-10-17
Courts News Ireland
Two men in their seventies from Donegal and Meath have appealed to the Court of Appeal against extradition to Northern Ireland over charges connected to the 1975 murder of Constable Robert John McPherson. John Edward McNicholl of Newmills, Letterkenny, and Seamus Christopher...
High Court
2025-07-14
Courts News Ireland
A retired garda sergeant from Donegal has been granted High Court permission to seek judicial review of An Garda Síochána's handling of his application to restore a Gaeltacht allowance. Paul Wallace, formerly stationed in Letterkerry, applied in January 2023 to have the...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2025-07-11
Courts News Ireland
Mark McAnaw, aged 53 and formerly resident in Letterkenny, County Donegal, has received an additional ten-month custodial sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for breaching conditions attached to a suspended sentence. Judge Martin Nolan activated ten months of a...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2025-06-05
Courts News Ireland
Mark McAnaw, a man with extensive convictions for rape and violent offences, has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for harassing three female journalists employed by the Sunday World. The 52-year-old, formerly resident in Letterkenny,...
High Court
2025-06-04
Courts News Ireland
Two men in their seventies have been granted permission by the High Court to challenge their extradition to Northern Ireland in connection with a 1975 killing. John Edward McNicholl of Newmills, Letterkenny, and Seamus Christopher O'Kane of Scalestown, County Meath, face...
Court of Appeal
2025-05-06
Courts News Ireland
A former Donegal GAA player will not serve additional prison time following an unsuccessful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Court of Appeal. Kevin McMenamin, aged 43, from Letterkenny, was convicted of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm after...
Court of Appeal
2025-04-29
Courts News Ireland
A Letterkenny man with an extensive criminal history will serve no additional prison time after the Director of Public Prosecutions' appeal against his sentence for dangerous driving was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 6 May 2025. Kevin McMenamin, aged 43, was convicted of...
High Court
2025-03-20
Courts News Ireland
Two men in their seventies will be extradited to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the 1975 murder of an RUC officer, the High Court has ruled. John Edward McNicholl, aged 73, of Newmills, Letterkenny, County Donegal, and Seamus Christopher O'Kane, aged 74, of County...
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
2025-03-07
Courts News Ireland
A man with extensive convictions for rape and violent crime has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for harassing three female journalists employed by the Sunday World. Mark McAnaw, aged 52 and formerly resident in Letterkenny, County Donegal, pleaded guilty at Dublin...