{"id":471936,"date":"2026-05-28T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:21:08","slug":"kerrykeel-man-on-trial-for-alleged-new-years-day-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471936\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerrykeel man on trial for alleged New Year&#8217;s Day assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerrykeel man accused of a serious assault in Letterkenny is set to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Patton has been sent forward to Letterkenny Circuit Court over an alleged incident on New Year\u2019s Day, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, with an address at Knockalla Close, Kerrykeel, has been charged with assaulting a man and causing him harm.<\/p>\n<p>The charge is contrary to section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Gillian Page gave evidence at Letterkenny District Court of serving a book of evidence on Patton\u2019s solicitor, Mr Frank Dorrian.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Jim Collins told the court that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has consented for Patton to be sent forward to the next sitting of Letterkenny Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Emile Daly made an order returning Patton for trial. Judge Daly administered the alibi warning and made a section 56 order relating to interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Bail was granted on the same conditions that have been in place.<\/p>\n<p>Legal aid was granted to Mr Dorrian and one legal counsel was assigned in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerrykeel man accused of a serious assault in Letterkenny is set to stand trial. Ryan Patton has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-471936","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\/471936","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=471936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}