{"id":481346,"date":"2026-06-03T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481346\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:11:12","slug":"man-60s-brought-to-court-to-face-55-alleged-sex-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481346\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 60s, brought to court to face 55 alleged sex charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been brought before a court in Co Donegal charged with 55 charges of alleged sex assault and rape.<\/p>\n

The man, who is in his 60s, appeared before Judge Emile Daly at Letterkenny District Court.<\/p>\n

He appeared in court after being handed over to Gardai by members of the PSNI following the execution of a European Arrest Warrant.<\/p>\n

The alleged offences are against FOUR different people and are claimed to have occurred in Co Donegal between 1995 and 2002.<\/p>\n

The man, who cannot be named at present, has been residing in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

He was accompanied to court by detectives.<\/p>\n

He is charged with a total of 55 charges of rape, Section 4 rape and sexual assault at various locations in Co Donegal between 1995 and 2002 inclusive.<\/p>\n

The accused man did not speak during the brief hearing.<\/p>\n

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Detective Garda Paul Dolan said the Director of Public Prosecutions had consented to the accused being sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court<\/p>\n

He also said Gardai had objections to the man being granted bail.<\/p>\n

He said that because the man was resident in Northern Ireland, he feared that he may be a flight risk.<\/p>\n

The accused man’s solicitor, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client had no previous convictions, had a permanent address and his wife was in ill health.<\/p>\n

Having considered all submissions, Judge Daly said the accused has the presumption of innocence and said she was granting bail.<\/p>\n

The Judge imposed a number of conditions including a cash lodgement of \u20ac1,000 as well as directions that the accused sign on at Buncrana Garda Station once a week.<\/p>\n

He is also to surrender his passport and not to have any contact with any witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n

The case was adjourned to September 14th for a book of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been brought before a court in Co Donegal charged with 55 charges of alleged sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-481346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481346","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=481346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}