The families of some of the eight men killed in a road crash in Co Donegal almost six years ago have expressed their frustration with the remit of the coroner’s court after a unlawful killing verdict last evening from a jury hearing the case.

A Donegal man who killed eight people in a car crash five years ago will find out today if he will have to serve more time in prison.

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.

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.

Ireland’s latest Lotto winners may consider themselves lucky, but one member knows she is luckier than most.

Little Niamh Harkin was diagnosed with what most of us know as "clicky hips" at the age of six months.

The man charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people in Inishowen in 2010 has pleaded guilty.

A young farmer believes he was simply "in the right place at the right time" when he heard a drowning fisherman’s cry for help, a half-mile away.

A fisherman is recovering after being pulled from the sea off Donegal where he was heard screaming for help while he clung to a buoy marking lobster pots.

A fisherman was rescued yesterday after a farmer heard his cry for help a half a mile out to sea.

Volunteer lifeboat crew with Lough Swilly RNLI were involved in the dramatic rescue of a lone fisherman this afternoon.

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.

The family of a man who took his own life on the third anniversary of his son’s death says he was abandoned by the health service.

HE’S got a shaggy blond hairdo and a full complement of whiskers — and he’s becoming a favourite at Leinster House.

Six people, including one child, have been hospitalised following a crash in Inishowen, Co Donegal.

WE are not bound by the judgment of ECHR on the A,B,C case — which is merely an opinion.

The chief executive of the Road Safety Authority says "hard questions" need to be asked after last week's horrific road accident in Donegal in which eight people died.

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.

“LET this be the last.”

The final victim of Ireland’s worst road crash to be buried was a proud family man, full of life and with a heart of gold, mourners heard today.

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 brave mother of one of the young men who died in the Inishowen car crash has opened her heart saying: “I blame no one” for the tragedy.

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.

Mourners gathered from up to an hour before the funeral of Buncrana car crash victim Mark McLaughlin today.

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.

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

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