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Warren Byrne, a 20-year-old from Pollakeel, Mountnugent, Cavan, was charged with dangerous driving on June 22, 2026 at Tircallan, Stranorlar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sergeant Collins said there could be further charges in the case.<\/p>\n
Judge Daly said that the vehicle was seized \u201cfor good reason\u201d and told Byrne that the car would be returned on the strict understanding that neither he or anyone else \u201cengage in anything remotely dangerous\u201d in that vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be squeaky clean from now on,\u201d Judge Daly told Byrne. \u201cRally weekend is not an opportunity for people to visit this county and engage in dangerous activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The case was adjourned until September.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lee Boyce (26), from Pound Street, Ramelton, was charged with an offence\u00a0 driving or attempting to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place while there is present in his or her body a quantity of alcohol such that, within 3 hours after so driving or attempting to drive, the concentration of alcohol in his or her breath will exceed a concentration of 9 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, to wit 79 microgrammes.<\/p>\n
Stephen McGimpsey, a 36-year-old with an address at Brandon Grove, Bangor, was charged with dangerous driving at Magheraboy, Letterkenny. A pr\u00e9cis of evidence is to be sent to his solicitor and the case was adjourned to September, when the accused will elect whether to plead guilty or contest the charge.<\/p>\n
Tommi Geraghty (21) of Riocht Na Si, Ballygawley, was charged with dangerous driving on June 21, 2026 at Kilross.<\/p>\n
Daniel Brown, a 22-year-old from Kilmonaghan Road, Newry, was charged with dangerous driving on June 21, 2026 at Pearse Road, Letterkenny.<\/p>\n
Christopher Maguire, a 20-year-old of Sycamore Drive, Enniskillen, was charged with dangerous driving at Circular Road, Letterkenny, on June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
A bench warrant issued for Colm Cawley. The 28-year-old, of Knigh Cross, Nenagh, was charged following an incident on June 19 at Port Road, Letterkenny. He was charged with driving a\u00a0 mechanically propelled vehicle while under influence of intoxicant or exceeding the alcohol limit. He was also charged with having no insurance and driving without a driving licence.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na put additional resources in place over the weekend for the Donegal International Rally, including increased checkpoints, high-visibility patrols and additional marked and unmarked vehicles, Garda motorcyclists and the Garda Air Support Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man has been charged with SEVEN counts of dangerous driving in Letterkenny over the weekend.\u00a0 It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-513029","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\/513029","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=513029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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