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.

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 remains of Buncrana car crash victim Eamonn McDaid have been brought to St Mary's Church in Cockhill, Buncrana, for requiem mass.

ESCAPE from grief was an impossibility in Inishowen yesterday.

FOR the briefest moments amid their heartache, the families of Mark McLaughlin and PJ McLaughlin allowed themselves smile as anecdotes of their loved ones were shared with those who mourned them.

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.

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

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 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.