A father of three who awoke from a drunken slumber to find a man allegedly performing a sex act on him has been jailed for six years after brutally attacking the man.

Three men who used a stolen Royal Mail van to carry out a vicious robbery on a post office in Donegal have been jailed for a total of 18 years.

Simply Red star Mick Hucknall has backed opposition by locals to plans for Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm in Donegal.

A moneylender has been found guilty of threatening to kill another man – because he owed him just €70.

A moneylender held a gun to the head of another man and told him he would kill him because he owed him just €70, a court has been told.

A man at the centre of the country’s worst ever car crash has been warned that his bail conditions will be revoked if he continues to breach his conditions.

A garda who sexually assaulted a female officer and harassed another at a Garda station has been given a six-month jail sentence and fined a total of €10,000.

The family of a teacher killed by a dangerous driver who had downed six pints of beer asked a coroner not to say her death was as a result of a road accident.

An up-and-coming GAA star has been jailed after an attack in which a man lost the sight in one eye.

A man at the centre of the so-called Romeo and Juliet court case has been sentenced to six months in prison but has had his sentence suspended.

A DONEGAL father who sexually abused his daughter has thanked her for being brave enough to come forward and to name him.

A father and son, jailed for a total of 16 years for drugs offences had their convictions overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

REPOSSESSION orders against five homeowners were granted in a single Donegal town last week.

TWO sisters who once sought the help of a teen magazine “agony aunt” in a desperate bid to end their sexual abuse nightmare stood at the front of yesterday’s demonstration outside the Dáil.

A DETECTIVE sergeant threatened his garda interviewers that he had notes and tapes of his conversations with senior officers in Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

A detective sergeant threatened his Garda interviewers that he had notes and tapes of his conversations with senior officers in Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A garda superintendent drafted in to investigate false expenses claims in the Donegal division today denied vital evidence was covered up in a conspiracy to frame a junior officer.

A garda superintendent drafted in to investigate false expenses claims in the Donegal division today insisted he played no part in a conspiracy to frame a junior officer.

SUSPENDED Detective Sergeant John White was shocked and afraid when he was arrested and brought in for questioning at his own garda station, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption in Donegal heard yesterday.

A suspended detective was shocked and afraid when he was arrested and brought in for questioning at his own garda station, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A SUSPENDED garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s investigations said yesterday he believed garda chiefs wanted to scapegoat him for garda corruption in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

A suspended garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s current investigations today said he believed Garda chiefs wanted to ’scapegoat’ him for corruption in the force in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

Detective Sergeant John White was already suspected of unethical involvement with a witness before the arrest of the witness who implicated him, a top garda claimed today.

A key witness told the Morris Tribunal today he was afraid of a garda sergeant who he claimed prompted him to make a maze of false allegations.

A Sligo man broke down crying after he admitted making false statements about a silver bullet death threat, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

AN illiterate man was told by a garda sergeant that he would pay him if he stayed in a nightclub after hours with as much drink as possible in front of him, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption heard yesterday.

GARDA bosses have ruled out any inquiry into a garda investigation which led to the prosecution of a Donegal officer at the centre of claims regarding the Omagh bombing.