A teenager is being treated for a suspected broken jaw after he was kicked in the face while tying his boot laces during a GAA football match.

The 15-year-old St Eunans player was attacked with just minutes to go in the underage game in Burt against Urris here in the County on Sunday.

Shocked spectators attending the game on Sunday claimed the attack was completely unprovoked.

The incident happened on Sunday morning in the Northern Regional U-15 final between St Eunans and Urris, which was held at a neutral venue in Burt.

With minutes to go in the game a St. Eunan’s player sustained a suspected broken jaw and was removed to Letterkenny General Hospital.

Local GAA bosses have launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the attack and are awaiting the referees report.

Representatives from the Urris club have contacted St Eunans to apologise and accepted full responsibility for the attack.

The teenager who carried out the attack will face a lengthy suspension from the game if found guilty

The Government has banned the use of all poisons for pest control under new rules aimed at stopping the killing of birds of prey.

There will be no poisons which can legally be used to kill birds or animals, apart from rats and mice.

And the new regulations also make it an offence for a person to use any type of meat, fish, egg or other animal substance as bait to poison birds or animals unless licensed to do so. Anyone caught breaking the law is liable to a fine of up to €5,000 or a prison sentence of 12 months.

Earlier this year an eagle was found dead in Glenveagh National Park and toxicology tests confirmed it had been poisoned.

Lorcan O Toole, from The Golden Eagle Trust, has welcomed the move…….

Gardai in Milford are appealing for information about a fatal collision at Bunlin Bridge last evening.

81 year old Leonard Devanney, also known as Leonard Orr, was pronounced dead in hospital after the collision which happened at 5 o’clock.

Mr Orr, was a single man from Ballyare near Ramelton, and was the driver of a car which was in collision with a lorry.

The road remains closed, and diversions are in place.

Local Superintendent Eugene Mc Govern spoke about the tragedy on today’s Shaun Doherty Show……

The government’s legal team will be in the High Court today to defend the ongoing delay in holding the Donegal South West by-election.

Sinn Fein Senator Pearse Doherty is arguing that the people of Donegal South West are being denied their constitutional rights to representation.

His legal team told the High Court whe the case opened yesterday afternoon that the failure to fill the seat, 16 months after the vacancy arose, is unreasonable.

Senator Doherty says his lawyers have made a compelling case, and he’s confident that today’s proceedings will go very well.

The Donegal Road Safety Working Group will present its Road Safe Road Show at Aura in Letterkenny over the next two days.

At the event people directly affected by road tragedies tell their stories to second level students – who will soon be beginning their own driving careers.

The first of the road shows was held in 2007, and this year will see the total number of students to have seen it top the 10,000 mark.

Road Safety Officer Eamonn Browne is hopeful this will see a reduction in road incidents in years to come.

District Court Judge Seamus Hughes has been accused of insulting the people of Donegal over comments he made about our attitudes towards gardai in the county.

Last week Judge Hughes launched a scathing attack on the people of Co Donegal claiming they think Gardai are ‘fair game’ while out on duty.

Cllr Frank McBrearty says the Judge was wrong to say there is a lack of respect for the gardai in Donegal.

He suggested that if Judge Hughes – who is a former Fianna Fail TD – wanted to voice his opinion on such matters, he should leave the bench and go back into politics:

A pensioner was killed last night when his car was involved in a collision with a truck. 82-year-old Leonard Orr died following the crash at Bunlinn Bridge on the Carrigart Road, near Milford.

Mr Orr, was a single man from Ballyare near Ramelton.

The crash happened at around 5pm yesterday evening.

The road is closed and diversions are in place.

Garda forensic accident investigators are examining the scene this morning. Garda have appealed for witnesses.

It’s been confirmed that a man in his 80s has been killed in a two-car collision near Milford.

The crash happened at around 5pm this afternoon at Bunlin Bridge on the Milford to Carrigart road.

The man who died was the driver of one of two vehicles involved in the collision. The road remains closed, and diversions are in place.

The road remains closed, with a Garda forensic team set to examine the scene in the morning.

Diversions remain in place – Traffic from Carrigart is being diverted via Lough Salt, traffic from Milford is being diverted via Gortmacall and Lough Salt.

There’s been a serious road collision at Bunlin Bridge between Milford and Carrigart. We understand the collision which happened just before 5 o’clock involved a lorry and a car.

Emergency services are still at the scene, and while we understand there are injuries, they are still being assessed, and gardai say they cannot comment on the condition of anyone involved.

The road at Bunlin Bridge will remain closed for the foreseeable future, traffic from Carrigart to Milford is being diverted via Lough Salt, traffic from Milford to Carrigart is being diverted via Gortmacall and the Lough Salt Road.

The Historical Enquiries Team has found that a former soldier lied about the fatal shooting of a woman in Derry in 1975.

The HET report concludes a claim that 22-year-old Bernadette Friel sustained the single wound during a game of “Russian Roulette” was fabricated.

The report says Thomas Ramsay deliberately shot her and then told investigators a series of lies about what happened. Ms Friel, who had a four-year-old son, died from a single wound to the head, two days after she was shot in the bedroom of Ramsay’s home in the Carnhill area of Derry.

Ramsay had been charged with murder, but the charge was reduced to manslaughter, after the Director of Public Prosecutions accepted his version of events.

He subsequently spent eight months in jail.