The DPP is to appeal against the sentence handed down to Shaun Kelly, the Donegal man found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people.

A man has been jailed for two years and disqualified from driving for 10 years for causing a crash which killed eight people in Inishowen.

A 26-year-old Donegal man who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men has been sentenced to four years in prison with the last two suspended.

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.

Elizabeth Dunne

KERRY Group has no plans to forsake its Tralee roots by transferring its headquarters to the US.

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.

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.

The funerals of three of the eight people killed in Sunday night’s horrific crash on the road between Clonmany and Buncrana took place yesterday in Co Donegal.

Forgiveness should be shown after a pensioner died in a road accident on his way home from bingo, his funeral heard today.

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.

BINGO-MAD farmer Hugh Friel was celebrating a €65 bingo win on the night he died in the biggest car crash the state has ever seen.

THE line of mourners stretched for around a mile as one of Ireland’s road victims was brought home.

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

The line of mourners as one of Ireland’s road victims was brought home stretched for around a mile.

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.

THE black hearses moved slowly through the rain as they brought the victims of one of Ireland’s worst road accidents home.

SCORES of young people were spilling out of the pubs in Buncrana on Sunday night when the revelry was interrupted by the sirens of fire brigades, ambulances and gardaí rushing through the town shortly before 11pm.

The black hearses moved slowly through the rain as they brought the victims of one of Ireland’s worst road accidents home.

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.

Tourism Ireland today announced the appointment of Niall Gibbons as its new Chief Executive.

THE top executives of Kerry Group and Glanbia have been urged by former food minister Ned O’Keeffe, TD, to hand back large chunks of their bonus payments as a gesture of solidarity with farmers trying to cope with the worse milk price in Europe.

IRELAND is the only EU country with no law specifically governing casinos, a conference heard yesterday.

STAN McCarthy, president and chief executive of Kerry Ingredients Americas, has been appointed chief executive-designate of the Kerry Group.

Kerry Group has reported interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2007 and the appointment of chief executive designate.

FOLLOWING a profit warning in May last year Kerry Group has announced a sharp dip in earnings for 2006.

Kerry Group has reported trading profit of €384m for 2006, up 1% on 2005, in its preliminary results.

TEAGASC has announced that the future of dairying in Kerry will be discussed at major dairy conference in Ballyroe Heights Hotel, Tralee, tomorrow night.

Kerry Group has announced pre-tax profit of €216m for the first half of 2006, an increase of almost 2%.

Shares in food group Kerry tumbled more that 7.5% this afternoon, down €1.47 to €18.00, following comments from chief executive Hugh Friel at the group's AGM in Tralee, Co Kerry.