Sentence doubled for Donegal man over worst case of dangerous driving in Irish history

A Buncrana man's sentence for dangerous driving causing eight deaths has been doubled by the Court of Appeal, which determined that the original jail term failed to reflect the gravity of the offence. Shaun Kelly, aged 27, had pleaded guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving that caused the deaths of eight men on a road between Clonmany and Buncrana on 11 July 2010. A trial judge had imposed…