Man is to stand trial for killing two friends in Donegal road crash

A Buncrana man is to stand trial for killing two friends in a road crash.

Ricky Fagan appeared at Letterkenny District Court. He was charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of Nathan Fullerton (17) and Nathan Farrell (18) at Quigley’s Point on April 29, 2017.

Fagan was also charged with the possession of cocaine and with possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or supply it to others relating to an incident at Mulberry Avenue, Buncrana, on July 10, 2020.

Sergeant Jim Collins told the court that the Director of Public Prosecutions had consented for Fagan to be sent forward for trial to the next sitting of Letterkenny Circuit Court commencing on May 25. Garda Pauline Doherty of Letterkenny Garda Station gave evidence of serving Fagan with two books of evidence in the case.

Judge Ciaran Liddy gave the accused man the alibi warning. Fagan's solicitor, Mr Donough Cleary sought one counsel for the alleged drugs charges and two counsel for the dangerous driving causing death charges. Fagan, who was accompanied to court by his mother, did not speak during the short hearing.

Sergeant Collins asked the court to direct that the media do not carry the address where the accused man will be staying before his trial.

Mr Fagan, with a previous address in Buncrana, was arrested in Northern Ireland on September 15th, 2022 and was extradited to the Republic on Tuesday.

Mr Fagan was the alleged driver of a car in which Mr Fullerton and Mr Farrell were travelling in, along with two other friends, on April 29, 2017. The car hit a wall before crashing into a tree on the Quigley’s Point to Moville road at around 3.35am. The friends were returning home from a night out at a disco at the time.