The sentencing case of a 26-year-old Donegal man, who has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men, is continuing in Letterkenny.

The man charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people in Inishowen in 2010 has pleaded guilty.

Delays in the trial of a man accused of causing the death by dangerous driving of eight people in Co Donegal were “simply not good enough,” a judge said in court when the case was called yesterday.

Families of victims of one of the country’s worst ever car crashes are being hugely distressed by delays in a court case, a judge has warned.

A judge has asked legal teams to “get their heads together” to allow one of Ireland’s most serious alleged dangerous driving cases to go ahead.

THE sole survivor of the country’s worst road crash that claimed the lives of eight men in July has been interviewed by gardaí.

PJ’S WHITE Beemer was his pride and joy, so much so that a framed photograph of the lovingly tended 19-year-old motor came to the church with him for his funeral and two of his wreaths were shaped as cars bearing the BMW emblem.

The final funeral will be held today after eight people died in Ireland’s worst road traffic accident.

A PRIEST at the funeral at one of the victims of Sunday night’s devastating road crash in Donegal has urged young people not to fall for the belief that they are indestructible.

The young driver of an overloaded car which was involved in Ireland’s worst road accident should not be blamed, the parents of one of the crash victims said tonight.

A man who died in Ireland’s worst road accident revelled in life, his funeral heard today.

Four more victims of Ireland’s worst road accident will be buried today.

ESCAPE from grief was an impossibility in Inishowen yesterday.

PAUL DOHERTY will be the first of four of the victims to be laid to rest today, when his remains are taken from his home in Ardagh, Ballyliffin, Clonmany, to St Mary’s Church, Clonmany, for a funeral at 10am.

The first funerals for the men who died in Ireland’s worst road crash will be held later today.

THIS morning Hugh Friel should be planning how to spend the €65 he won playing bingo on Sunday night.

THERE was a numbed silence across a Donegal peninsula yesterday evening as hearse after hearse made the journey from Letterkenny General Hospital to Fahan, Buncrana, Clonmany and Ballyliffen and families prepared for the first of eight funerals today.

A teenager killed in Ireland’s worst road accident will be buried on his 20th birthday.

Funeral details are being released for the eight victims of Sunday's crash in Donegal.

Devastated communities were beginning the harrowing task today of arranging eight funerals of loved ones killed in the country's worst ever road accident.

THE mother of one of the victims in the state’s worst road accident has spoken of her heartbreak at losing a son “with a heart of gold”.

SEVEN friends were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record after watching Spain win the World Cup.

Seven friends were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record in the country after watching Spain win the World Cup, it was revealed tonight.

A horror crash in which eight men died was today called the worst on record in the Republic of Ireland.