A Donegal farmer, who appeared to be asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road before a fatal road crash in which his passenger died and another motorist was injured, has had his seven-and-a-half-years prison sentence reduced to one of five years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Donegal farmer who appeared to be asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road before a fatal road crash in Co Louth in which his passenger died has been jailed for seven and a half years.

A Donegal man has been convicted of killing his friend in a dangerous driving incident in Co Louth in which several witnesses said he appeared asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road.

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Co Louth in which a Donegal man was killed and another seriously injured have said the driver appeared to be sleeping as he overtook other cars.