{"id":410076,"date":"2026-04-21T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:39:09","slug":"man-charged-with-theft-of-caravan-from-newtowncunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410076\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with theft of caravan from Newtowncunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Donegal man with 179 previous convictions has been charged with the theft of a caravan at the weekend.<\/p>\n

John Ward was brought before Monday\u2019s sitting of Letterkenny District Court following his arrest on Sunday.<\/p>\n

A 42-year-old, with an address at Cashel Park, Ward was charged with a series of offences and was only granted bail after Gardai agreed that strict conditions could be imposed. <\/p>\n

Ward was charged with stealing an Abbey caravan, valued at \u20ac3,000 and the property of a Paul McFadden, from Castleforward, Newtowncunningham, on Sunday, April 19.<\/p>\n

The charge is contrary to section 4 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001.<\/p>\n

Ward was also charged with driving a vehicle without insurance at Magherabeg, Manorcunningham, a charge contrary to section 56 (1) and (3) Road Traffic Act, 1961 as amended by section 18 of the Road Traffic Act, 2006.<\/p>\n

Ward was also charged with driving without a licence at Magherabeg, Manorcunningham and, at Buncrana Garda Station, with refusing to permit a designated nurse to take a specimen of his blood or to provide for the said designated nurse a specimen of urine.<\/p>\n

Garda Stephen Morrissey told the court that Gardai were objecting to bail and sought for Ward to be remanded in custody. <\/p>\n

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Garda Morrissey said Gardai were concerned that Ward would continue to reoffend if he were granted bail.<\/p>\n

Mr Rory O\u2019Brien, solicitor for Ward, said his client believed that he had a \u201clawful purpose in taking the vehicle\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Brien added: \u201cHe cooperated with Gardai and believed that his acquisition of the vehicle was lawful\u201d.<\/p>\n

The solicitor told Judge Emile Daly that conditions could be imposed. <\/p>\n

Judge Daly said that her inclination, due to Ward\u2019s extensive previous convictions, was to refuse bail.<\/p>\n

However, Sergeant Jim Collins then agreed that there were conditions that would be \u201cadequate\u201d to grant Ward bail.<\/p>\n

The accused was granted bail on condition that he sign on at a Garda station twice daily, that he reside at an approved address. <\/p>\n

Ward was also ordered to: obey a curfew from 10pm to 9am; remain of sober habits; provide a contact number and be contactable 24\/7; and be of good behaviour. <\/p>\n

An independent surety in the form of a cash lodgement of \u20ac800 was also required by the court. <\/p>\n

The case was put back to allow for directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Donegal man with 179 previous convictions has been charged with the theft of a caravan at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-410076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}