{"id":453156,"date":"2026-05-17T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:48:10","slug":"donegal-company-to-face-trial-over-fisheries-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453156\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal company to face trial over fisheries regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Donegal-based fishing company has been sent to face trial at the Circuit Court over alleged breaches of sea fisheries regulations.<\/p>\n<p>At Letterkenny District Court, Garda Pauline Doherty gave evidence of serving a book of evidence on Darragh Gillen. Garda Doherty also gave evidence of serving a book of evidence on Michael Gillen, a director of MCD Trawling Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>MCD Trawling Ltd and Darragh Gillen were both represented by Mr Ciaran Haran, solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>MCD Trawling Ltd, of Shilling Hill, Greencastle, is charged with three offences.<\/p>\n<p>It is charged with interfering with an official carrying out an inspection, within the State, contrary to section 34 of the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It is also charged with failing to have a transport document, contrary to article 68 of Regulation 1224\/2009, Regulation 6 of SI 54 of 2016, and section 14 of the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006.<\/p>\n<p>MCD Trawling Ltd is also charged with being the operator and failing to weigh the landing, contrary to section 60 (2) of Regulation 1224\/2009.<\/p>\n<p>Darragh Gillen, of Drumaweir, Greencastle, is charged that, having been a master of the Saint Catherine Laboure, he failed to comply with Annex EU X, 404 of 2011, in that he did fail to send a return-to-port message prior to the vessel entering port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-sans font-semibold text-xl md:text-[30px] leading-9 text-primary w-full\">\n        You may also be interested in\n    <\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/sponsored-content\/visionary-event-donegals-first-ever-self-growth-summit-taking-place-in-letterkenny-634130\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Visionary Event: Donegal\u2019s first-ever self growth summit taking place in Letterkenny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/visionary-event-donegal-rsquo-s-first-ever-self-growth-summit-taking-place-in-letterkenny.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Visionary Event: Donegal\u2019s first-ever self growth summit taking place in Letterkenny\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/news\/sunken-bollards-to-be-fixed-after-cars-enter-downings-beach-zone-634181\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Sunken bollards to be fixed after cars enter Downings beach zone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sunken-bollards-to-be-fixed-after-cars-enter-downings-beach-zone.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Sunken bollards to be fixed after cars enter Downings beach zone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kieran Dillon, State Solicitor for Donegal, told the court that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has consented for the accused being sent forward to Letterkenny Circuit Court for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dillon said that the option of a signed plea had been declined in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Emile Daly noted the service of books of evidence and the DPP\u2019s consent. Judge Daly made an order returning the accused for trial and administered the alibi warning.<\/p>\n<p>Legal aid was granted to Mr Haran and a certificate for legal counsel was also granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Donegal-based fishing company has been sent to face trial at the Circuit Court over alleged breaches of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-453156","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\/453156","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=453156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}