Eight-death car crash sentence 'too lenient’

A man jailed over Ireland’s worst car crash is to be re-sentenced before Christmas after his imprisonment was ruled too lenient.

The Court of Appeal said Shaun Kelly, aged 26, of Hill Rd, Ballymagan, Buncrana in Co Donegal, had effectively had his original sentence “double discounted”.

He pleaded guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men between Clonmany and Buncrana on July 11, 2010.