Donegal-town-based Garda Joanne Doherty said she would never forget the night she and Robbie McCallion were investigating a car theft when he was run down by a driver attempting to escape the scene.

A man who drove at a garda with a 16-year-old pregnant girl in the back of the car has been jailed for five years and banned from driving for life.

An 18-year-old man is due before Glenties District Court in Co Donegal today charged in connection with the death of Garda Robbie McCallion.

DESPITE the embargo on garda recruitment, significant numbers of new recruits will still be graduating from Templemore college until the end of next year, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern said yesterday.