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A CONVICTED GARDA killer who forced another officer to jump out of the way of his speeding car to avoid being ‘crushed’ at a checkpoint has been jailed for almost five years.
Martin McDermott almost ran over Garda Michael Kilcoyne during a Covid checkpoint in Co Donegal on the night of 14 April 2020.
McDermott approached the checkpoint at Raymoghey, Manorcunningham around 10:20pm but accelerated towards Garda Kilcoyne forcing him to jump out of the way.
He was pursued by Gardaí before eventually crashing but assaulted Garda Kilcoyne by kicking him in the chest after he was found hiding in undergrowth.
McDermott, a 36-year-old father-of-three, appeared at Donegal Circuit Court where he pleaded guilty to a range of charges including endangerment, assault, drink-driving and driving without a license.
Garda Kilcoyne told the court how he was speaking to another driver at a Covid checkpoint at about 10:20pm when he noticed another coming up to the checkpoint.
Without warning the driver of the second car increased his speed forcing Garda Kilcoyne to jump out of the way at around 10:20pm.
Gardaí pursued the car as it swerved the wrong way around a traffic island before losing control and crashing the car.
The driver fled and hid in undergrowth before Garda Kilcoyne found the accused, Martin McDermott.
As he went to arrest McDermott, Garda Kilcoyne was kicked in the chest and sent flying backwards before McDermott was arrested and brought to Letterkenny Garda Station.
While in the station McDermott, who has 98 previous convictions, continued to abuse officers telling them “I’ve been here before.”
He gave a breath sample which proved positive for alcohol while it was also discovered that McDermott,a father-of-three, was driving without a license and while disqualified.
Garda Kilcoyne said he did not personally know McDermott but knew who he was and was aware of his past.
The 36-year-old was jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of Garda Gary McLoughlin in 2009.
Garda Kilcoyne said McDermott’s previous convictions included 52 under the Forgery Act, 17 for road traffic offences including one for dangerous driving causing death and others under the Drugs Act, obstruction of a Garda and using telecoms devices while in prison.
Barrister for McDermott, Garnet Orange SC, put it to Garda Kilcoyne that his client did not intend to drive his car deliberately at him.
He said his instructions were that McDermott was driving knowing he should not be driving and unexpectedly encountered a checkpoint and “engaged in detection avoidance and accelerated trying to avoid you.”
Garda Kilcoyne replied by saying there was ample space on a two lane dual carriageway for the accused to drive around the car which was stopped at the checkpoint.
However, he added that McDermott may have panicked and accelerated.
In relation to the alleged assault when caught, Garda Kilcoyne accepted that McDermott may have been merely trying to get away rather than trying to assault him.
McDermott read out a letter of apology to Garda Kilcoyne and said he simply wanted to now put his past behind him.
He added there was not a day that went past that he does not think of the crash which killed Garda Gary McLoughlin.
He added that while in Castlerea Prison he became addicted to drugs and fled to Dublin upon his release to escape pressure from the media.
He said he began taking cocaine and drinking heavily while in Dublin as he didn’t see a future for himself.
He said he now suffers from a medical condition as a result of having a cyst on his brain.
On the night he was stopped by Garda Kilcoyne, he said he made a stupid mistake and was just one mile from his home when the incident occurred.
He said he has now realised that he is at the stage in his life that he needs to turn his life around.
Asking for leniency, Orange said his client came from a very respectable family and that on this occasion he was fueled by drink.
He said that this was more an attempt to escape rather than an attempt to deliberately endanger a Garda.
He asked the court to accept McDermott’s plea as genuine and said he was a man not without hope.
Sentencing the accused, Judge John Aylmer said the most aggravating factor in the case was that the accused had been jailed previously for the manslaughter of a member of An Garda Siochana.
A further aggravating factor was that McDermott was drunk and disqualified while driving.
He said he found it difficult to accept the defence counsel’s claim that the endangerment of Garda Kilcoyne was more reckless than intentional saying there was plenty of room to avoid Garda Kilcoyne on the road.
He said he placed the endangerment charge at the upper end of the scale for such offences and one which merited a sentence of six and a half years before mitigation.
The drink-driving charge merited six months as did the assault on Garda Kilcoyne, added Judge Aylmer.
In mitigation, the judge said there had been an early plea and that he accepted that McDermott is remorseful and has developed some insight into the seriousness of his offending.
He noted he was the “black sheep” of his family who were very law abiding and who had always supported him into the hope that he would rehabilitate.
Because of this he said he was reducing the sentence to five and a half years and to incentivise McDermott to continue his rehab when released from prison, he also suspended the final nine months of this sentence meaning he will serve four years and nine months in jail.
The sentence was backdated to 8 February when McDermott entered custody.
Judge Aylmer also disqualified the accused from driving for 15 years.
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Right if she’s one of theirs maybe Sky news should carry out a survey on the streets of the UK asking people to pronounce her name!
Pitch forks and flame torches out people.its time to march on the British embassy
Firstly, doesnt sky cover the UK and Ireland, doesn’t it have a little irish section of news, also it broadcasts GAA – i don’t think it considers itself a totally ‘British’ network, like MTV, its not MTV UK its MTV UK & Ireland.
Secondly shes from NEW YORK, the irish have been claiming her for as long as she has been ‘famous’, any other american would have been branded a plastic paddy a long time ago, unless theyre worth something then their from the aul sod!
First problem here is that people watch Sky News.
Thirdly, i really love feeding the outrage on these issues :)
She was born in New York. Raised by Irish parents in Carlow. Educated in Carlow. She’s Irish.
At least he could pronounce her name correctly.
No she’s american
Meandering so are you saying that because I lived in Australia for 5 years, and had a child with my Irish wife and we moved back to Ireland when the child was 3, that my child is Australian not Irish? F*ck right off you clown!
The child would be Australian by birth, but entitled to Irish citizenship. Many people not born here can get Irish citizenship.
It’s a disgrace. They are being knowingly and purposefully offensive and disrespectful to the citizens of Ireland. Switch cable providers and let them know that they won’t get away with this type of unacceptable behaviour anymore. Sneaks and lowlifes.
Meaning of the Irish name Saoirse is “Freedom”, hint hint Brits.
These reports in the Journal are so boringly predictable. Are we supposed to get indignant about such trivia? I’ll certainly join you in the March, just hang on til I get my burning torch.
Nope, she is American, of Irish background…….
I have one Irish son, one Scottish, and one Canadian, plus one Scottish daughter and a Canadian daughter…..all can hold Irish, British and Canadian passports……..but the Scottish are not Irish, and the Canadian are not Irish or Scottish……etc…….
Christina no offence but who the hell do you think you are to tell anyone what nationality they are. Just because your family is the United Nations doesn’t mean what you believe goes for everyone else in the world. If you support the GFA then you support the right to people born in the north to choose Irish or UK nationality, so how does that sit with your rigid archaic outlook on nationality? Seeing as we’re on about the British John Barnes, Chris Froome and Mo Farah are all sporting heroes in the UK and all consider themselves British. But yet you know better so they are actually Jamaican, Kenyan and Somalian. Laughable really that you know better than them what nationality they are.
Just as well Irish citzenship law isn’t based on location of birth. You can be born in Ireland and refused citizenship after all due to the 27th Amendment
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Insertion of new Article 9.2:
1° Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, a person born in the island of Ireland, which includes its islands and seas, who does not have, at the time of the birth of that person, at least one parent who is an Irish citizen or entitled to be an Irish citizen is not entitled to Irish citizenship or nationality, unless provided for by law.
2° This section shall not apply to persons born before the date of the enactment of this section.
—
Irish citizenship law is thus based mostly on Jus sanguinis, given that both her parents were born in Ireland she’s legally as Irish as someone born in the Rotunda.
Oh pjm so easy to wind up, and with the language coming out of you. Frankly quite rude and ignorant
@ Pepper Brooks
awww did they go and spoil all your 1916 self righteousness !!!!!!!!!!
Ironically, the Irish are fond of claiming others as their own. As of recent, it’s US actress Brie Larson because she starred in ”Room”.
Some mighty fine trolling kid
No she’s American – BORN in New York.
@c sherwin russell. Correct – U gave a multi-national family.
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Paul, that’s the granny rule.
Lad born in England.
parents born in the England.
Grand parents born in Ireland.
So if parents ‘can’ get Irish citizenships, but haven’t, they are still entitled to, so the lad can also get Irish citizenship.
SKY news made me laugh
it was the morning after Day Lewis won the oscar for Lincoln
they were discussing his work with martin scorsese and michael mann
they are so happy
so proud of DDL
then someone mentioned his collaborations with Jim Sheridan.. they looked so sad
as if they those are “other films” he made ffs
Sky pull this stunt that often I’m starting to think they do it to purposely just to wind us all up…..well mission accomplished Sky!!!
Yeah Irish people get extremely vexxed about pointless stories like, extreme case of small nation symdrome
Ahh here..it’s Sky. You’d expect nothing less than car crash television companies..they’d love her to be one of them..but she’s not….she’s one of us. Fk ye Sky…will she still be ‘British’ if she doesn’t win?
Podge
It’s effectively the same thing as these bigots saying an Italian actress is one of their own.
To paraphrase the UK media in 1990. “British actor Richard Harris celebrates Oscar win!” Hours later… “Irish actor Richard Harris in drunken brawl!”
Well Emmet one of their own hell raisers in buried in North Cork,Oliver Reed.Probably about 20 miles away from Richard Harris.Funny that,two of the greats.
@ Emmet Quinn
Richard Harris never won an oscar
Who gives a $hit?
People need to be outraged!
@proctor
I am outraged at your lack of outrage. As far as i know she’s a yank.
Sure it’s no harm having her.
@ George Hogan
we claim Daniel Day Lewis as one of us then we sh-t our pants when the brits claim a german actor and an american actress as their own????
George, I agree … if they dont have enough talent, let them claim ours, Australian, French etc… They really are sad, God love them.
Her nationality is Irish but holds dual citizenship with America as she was born in New York. Not York.
She spent about 3 days there as a baby and apparently that makes her an American too.
Only an Irish person would have that mentality.
3 years actually…
3 YEARS!
She’s as American as apple pie then!
@ Hugh G. Johnson
She’s as American as torture and lies and drone strikes !!!!!!!!!!!!
Or shes as irish as St.Patrick, he wasn’t Irish either
Patrick Vieira was French and never played for Southampton.
What’s with the British claiming everything that’s not their own?
They’ve done it for more than 800 years to be fair nothing new there
Force of habit everything they have they stole from someone.
@ marian doherty
the GAA sold out to SKY but we get mad if they call Saoirse british??????
maybe if SKY took care of us same way the good ole GAA take care of certain people
then maybe we wouldn’t be so mad : )
maybe if SKY paid for our dinner and the petrol in our cars we wouldn’t be so fast to criticize them
@ TheVicar
the only reason Saoirse was cast is because Rooney Mara dropped out to do ‘Carol’
So if she is British…is the queen German?
No, the queen was born in the UK, unlike Saoirse who was born in america.
Fassbender is British according to Sky news apparently
Searshaw Ronane is good
He has lived in London for 19 years, much longer than he lived here.
There are a whole lot of country folk living in Dublin, no one would EVER consider them as Dubliners!
Except the dictionary apparently.
Dubliner (ˈdʌblɪnə)
n
1. (Placename) inhabitant of Dublin
@Rowe
Ya,I saw that.Richard Suchet interviewed Dame Pippa Harris who is chair of Baftas film committee and she referred to Michael Fastbender along with Kate Winslet as being Brits.Are they stupid or what.
Someone should ask them what her first name means
@ Hypernova
” Are they stupid or what ”
they know exactly what they are doing
they know people like you will get angry
they are loving every second of it
They may try to take our lives, but they will never take our FREEDOM, sorry Saoirse
Thats ridiculous, we all know hes German!
Fassbender is technically German and lives in England, Ronan is American who both was born and lives in America. The Irish is just as bad at claiming people plus citing Wikipedia is hardly best practice
Obama Plaza!
they never underlined this part of her Wikipedia page ..
Born: April 12, 1994 New York, United States
Michael Fassbender
One German parent and 2 years of his childhood in Germany = German
One Irish parent and 16 years of his childhood in Ireland = German
That’s the strange logic of Kenny and Meandering above!
Technically he is German.
Shure isn’t Fassbender German for goose step!!
It’ll be tough, but I think I’ll sleep just fine tonight by not giving a crap what the British say or do.
Wrong, he’s German….anyway who is saoirse Ronan?
Being a part of Murdoch’s filthy empire.
That’s one award you can do without.
Fassbender is irish according to Rte news apparently
We need Samual L Jackson on the case again. http://taint.org/2003/12/10/185721a.html
What? We’re claiming someone with an Irish passport as being Irish. You’re right, we are as bad…..!?!
They can have Dara Ó Bríain
Please please can they take Jason Byrne as well.
Sounds like a war continued by other means.
Tongue firmly in cheek. If this is what angers people then they really need to get more of a life!
Still claiming the Atlantic Archipelago too it seems
When did England ever draw a line on boundaries. They have never given up their empire/slave mentality.
A friend of mine suggested that we call them the WISE Isles – with WISE being an acronym for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England….a bit unfair to the Isle of Man and some other people, but I still didn’t think it was a bad suggestion!
Although maybe we could rename the islands with a view to boosting tourism….the European Tropics or Northwestern Tahiti or something along those lines??
Are we still getting pissy about this stuff
Oh yeah!!! i propose we destroy our Sky Boxes and have an Islamic type day of outrage type thing.
National inferiority complex on display with all this outrage.
Simple fact is the Irish are very English and the English are very Irish. We are for the most part pretty interchangeable and more like each other than any two other nations on the planet. We like each other more than we pretend and the brits always support our soccer team in international competitions second to their own.
Don’t forget we practically adopted Jeremy Irons, Damon Hill, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, Wham and every other famous British who resided here for a time.
We need to be more cool.
Btw. Saoirse Ronan doesn’t belong to us, she is her own.
That is ALWAYS the case in Britain.
If they are good they are British.
If they are a baddie they are Irish.
Never fails.
(Maggie Thatcher famously called Bob Geldorf “a true Brit”).
He is, who cares
Geldof is one I don’t mind them having.
It’s kind of like how the Irish media were trying to claim Tyson Fury as Irish when he became heavyweight champion.
It’s exactly like that. The difference is the British media didn’t give a single shite.
And quickly wanted to hand him back when the found out what a numpty he is…
Who in the Irish media were trying to claim Tyson Fury?.Show us the proof.
Well Tyson Furys family, on both sides, are from Ireland. Since when are Saoirse Ronans family from the UK. Explain how it’s like that?
@ Fr. Billy O’Dwyer
there was some athlete not so long ago
there was controversy, he turned his head when a brit song was played
so he cant take a british song but he can take money from a british club??????
What’s that got to do with this? That’s just a completely different subject. I’d be the 1st person to say that James McClain is a moron anyway
@ Fr Billy O’Dwyer
was that his name?
Hey Sky News you may take our lives but you can never take our SAOIRSE!
according to Dennis Quaid her name is
She Shaw Row Nun
Sky please take enda and joan as urs we dont want them
@ Marty Lawless
yeah thats why he was elected because the irish people DON’T want him
When such a sizable chunk of people in this country are essentially culturally British, particularly around the pale it’s difficult to get involved in this outrage.
‘Sizeable chunk of people’, oh dear!
Well, there’s no doubting the veracity of your cultural routes!
As far as I know we are all Africans, that’s if you go back far enough.
Who really cares. Sure if they don’t win the awards they’ll definitely be classed as Irish.
Who cares what they say? It’s just like me saying I have a healthy 7 inches! It doesn’t mean it’s true, it just means I said it.
This is getting tired. She’s Irish & everyone with half a brain cell knows it. No matter what Sky says.
The trouble with Sky is that they’re only sharing half a brain cell between all of them.
Outrageous.
If I was an American I would be really upset.
Where did Suchet study geography!!!!
Who cares what arbitrary national lines Ronan happened to be within the day she was born? Britishness or Irishness have very little to do with her quality as an actress!
@ Rab Mac Aonghusa
being nominated for awards has very little to do with her quality as an actress!
Love it when Irish people make holy shows of themselves on social media. I bet Suchet is having a great laugh! Ronan is a US citizen who no longer lives in this country (lucky her). Likely she couldn’t care less if the Brits claim her having lived in London for a few years and likely has many Brit peers. The Brits are fond of Ronan, appreciate her work hence the three BAFTA noms she’s received over the years. Same with Fassbender (German born) who left Ireland 18 years ago. People, get lives!!
@ Kittycat87
a stock a vetch go how vetch
Love the way everyone gets their back up when this happens. Every bloody famous person has a link to Ireland when we want them to
If an alien spaceship landed, those Irish genealogy folks would find something, in the same way that they “allegedly” found something on Clinton.
People on here seriously have a chip on their shoulder about this sort of thing.
I like to think that most of them are being tongue-in-cheek.
It’s taking it a bit far writing up an article and posting it on the front page of the website if they’re being tongue in cheek.
These Brits are clowns. They are claiming the singer Madonna as one of thier own as well.
Well, they haven’t claimed Shane MacGowan, so I suppose it’s swings and roundabouts, or smoke and mirrors, or whatever. I’m going to send a furious email to someone, and burn something or other.
@ Ted Murray
would you claim Shane MacGowan????????????
Only if he gave me a few quid :p
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Seriously people who gives a f@#k!! We should all just get along.
FFS people it’s only the BAFTA awards which are almost as incestuous and irrelevant as the IFTA awards and really not worth getting excited about. Move on.
The real lesson here is why watch Sky news. Watch news that is not Sky news.
Has anybody asked them what nationality they consider themselves to be?
De ya know what I like about the Brits………fook all!!!!
Like all good Brits we speak the Queen’s English… At least Saoirse is the Irish for freedom, and Seoirse is the Irish for George. Perhaps the Journal should develop an Irish Language section whereby we can see how Irish or British we are. It might be enlightening!!!!
@ Micheal S. O’ Ceilleachair
makes me LOL every chance they get,, they are crying about Britain
if it wasn’t for the British.. they wouldn’t even be able to talk
i guess they’d just grunt at each other (like animals)
Yes and the Dole has just released the unemployment figures, 19% is not even close to 10%.
There obviously still struggling with Irish independence, maybe ye miss us guys…..!!!!!
Work both way Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis loves ireland so much he took a knight hood
He’s not Irish, he’s British
To quote the Duke of Wellington when accused of being Irish (because he was born here) “Being born in a stable, does not make one a horse’
Equally if a cat has kittens in an oven does not make them buns !
Saoirse Ronan was born in America, her family moved to Ireland when she was 3
she’s only irish if she spent FOUR years in america!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought she was American
Where your born is where your from!!!
@ Declan Healy
where were you born?
Yes, which means she is American, not Irish
Why don’t people write, phone, email etc in complaining. It’s happening all too often now tbh!
Surely people have better things to be doing? If it doesn’t bother the ‘talent’, perhaps you shouldn’t let it bother you!
Who’s gives a s h i t
Isn’t the definition of British inclusive of Irish? It’s a bit like European, you either identify with the term or you don’t.
Fox news more like it she’s a septic tank
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