An inquest into Ireland’s biggest ever road crash has opened amidst claims of a cover-up.

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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.

The death of his brother Hugh had such a profound impact on Anthony Friel that he revealed he twice planned his own suicide.

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.

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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.

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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.

Tuam Stars are the most celebrated club in Galway football.

Tuam Stars and Salthill-Knocknacarra meet in the Galway SFC final in three weeks after coming through semi-finals against Corofin and Killererin, respectively, at Tuam Stadium yesterday.

The most prolific winners of the Galway SFC, Tuam Stars, blasted their way past Killanin and into the third round of the 2012 campaign in Pearse Stadium yesterday.

HOW DO you do justice to what we saw in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Saturday?

EAGER innovators and researchers with proposals for unique projects have been battling it out for the title of Ireland’s innovator and researcher at a conference in Dublin.

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

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.

PAUL DOHERTY loved “doing the lap” — a local phrase for driving around town, showing off your wheels and having the craic, mourners at his funeral heard yesterday.

THE heartbreaking toll of the last few days proved too much for some young mourners yesterday with a young man and teenage girl collapsing under the strain.

THE parents of one of the eight victims of the Inishowen crash have reached out to the driver and sole survivor of the 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.

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.

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.

BRIAN DOOHER has admitted there were times when he doubted whether he would make it back for a 15th season with Tyrone.

WICKLOW GAA chiefs have given up in their bid to switch the venue of their Leinster SFC quarter-final against Westmeath on June 6 to either Carlow or Portlaoise and revealed they will accept the Leinster Council decision to keep the match in Tullamore.