An 18-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter in Co Donegal last year.<\/p>\n
Lochlainn Doherty, with an address at Doaghmore, Clonmany, appeared before Buncrana District Court charged with eight offences, including dangerous driving causing the death of 27-year-old Natalie McLaughlin and her six-year-old daughter Ella.<\/p>\n
They died following a two-vehicle collision on the R240 at Carrowmore, Glentogher, Carndonagh, on 2 July 2025, one of the main thoroughfares connecting north Inishowen and Co Donegal.<\/p>\n
Ella died at the scene of the collision and Ms McLaughlin died the following evening at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.<\/p>\n
Ms McLaughlin’s partner, Tyrone Irwin and their young daughter Rhea, were treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, following the crash.<\/p>\n
Mr Doherty was also charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to Mr Irwin and Rhea, who was approximately 20 months old at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n
He was also charged with two counts of driving a vehicle without holding a driving licence and two counts of driving a vehicle without insurance.<\/p>\n
Sgt Charlene Anderson of Buncrana Garda Station gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution.<\/p>\n
She told Judge Emile Daly that the accused, made no reply to the charges.<\/p>\n
The court heard that disclosures will be made by the end of July. An extension of time was granted for the book of evidence to be served.<\/p>\n
Mr Doherty was remanded on bail without conditions to appear before Carndonagh District Court on 15 September.<\/p>\n
Ms McLaughlin\u2019s parents Joanne and Danny McLaughlin, sister Lara and brother Tiarnan attended Buncrana District Court.<\/p>\n
They held pictures of Natalie and Ella McLaughlin during the court sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-515848","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\/515848","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=515848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}