A 31-year-old country and western singer who uses a wheelchair faces jail if he does not complete a community service sentence or get a medical report as to why he cannot do it.

Two men have been jailed after a savage golf club attack on a man as he celebrated his daughter’s christening.

A terrified young woman had to pretend to her boyfriend that she was pregnant to stop him from strangling her.

A man who bit into another’s face has been jailed for two years. Stephen Fox, 25, bit so hard into the face of his victim that he left a hole in his cheek leaving him scarred for life.

A man with “superhuman” strength jumped through a reinforced window and later had to be restrained by seven gardaí who failed to subdue him with pepper spray and batons, a court has been told.

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 tragic deaths of eight people in a single car crash were recalled at Letterkenny Circuit Court this week when the driver of one of the cars involved, 26-year-old Shaun Kelly of Buncrana, Co Donegal, was sentenced to four years in prison with the last two years suspended for dangerous driving causing the deaths.

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

An assistant teacher at a Donegal secondary school had sex with a 14-year-old pupil after striking up a relationship with her on a Facebook page.

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.

A YOUNG woman hit a man in the head with a hurley so hard that he developed a clot and was left fighting for his life.