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 nursing home at the centre of a deadly influenza outbreak had insufficient measures in place to detect the illness early, health chiefs have said.

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

ESCAPE from grief was an impossibility in Inishowen yesterday.

JUST one small signpost marks Fahan out among the string of small communities scattered along the Lough Swilly shoreline and its parish church lies hidden among a maze of tight roads squeezed between heavy hedgerows.

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

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”.

The docu-drama Agnes - the true story of Agnes Jones from Fahan who trained with Florence Nightingale and transformed the awful Liverpool Workhouse in the 1860s - gets its premiere in Derry's Guildhall on November 3.

THE family home of top rugby player, Ronan O’Gara, is up for sale.