Influenza claimed the lives of six elderly people who died in a private nursing home, tests have revealed.

Health chiefs remain concerned about a small number of residents who are ill at a private nursing home where six people have died in a suspected viral outbreak.

Test results are due this evening from residents at a private nursing home in Co Donegal where six people died from a respiratory illness in the last 12 days.

A mystery illness has claimed the lives of six elderly people at a nursing home in less than a fortnight, including five in the past five days.

A group calling itself Republican Action Against Drugs has admitted killing a man in Donegal and warned more deaths could follow.

The gang who murdered Andrew Allen in Co Donegal tried to force their way into his house before shooting several shots into a downstairs bedroom.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

Killers who shot dead a man in Donegal are imposing the law of the jungle, a priest who knew the victim has said.

A man in his 20s was shot dead at his home in Co Donegal.

ESCAPE from grief was an impossibility in Inishowen yesterday.

A third funeral has taken place in at St Mura's church in Fahan, Donegal, following Sunday's devastating crash which killed eight men.

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

The first funerals for the men who died in Ireland’s worst road crash will be held later today.

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.

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.

SEVEN friends were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record after watching Spain win the World Cup.

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.

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.

The Garda Ombudsman is today investigating a car crash in Co Donegal in which an 18-year-old woman was injured.

Gardaí in Co Donegal have arrested a 25-year-old man following a stabbing incident in the village of Fahan early this morning.

An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was travelling in crashed near Fahan in Co Donegal this morning.

A pensioner has been killed in a road accident in Co Donegal.