Posted online: Jul 3rd, 2009

By Paddy Clancy
Reporter

McGrenaghan was charged at Glenties District Court last week with the unlawful killing of Garda Robbie McCallion who died from injuries received on March 26th at Tara Court, Letterkenny.
He was also charged with dangerous driving causing Gda McCallion’s death on the same occasion.
He was additionally charged with reckless driving, endangering the lives of gardai Joanne Doherty and Shane Lavelle on the same occasion.
In Glenties court Sgt Galligan said there was no objection to bail for McGrenaghan who was already on High Court bail.
Bail was put at €4,000 and Sgt Galligan said McGrenaghan was already on remand to July 16th on other charges.
An adjournment was sought in Letterkenny today until September and the court heard that the book of evidence will be ready for service.
McGrenaghan, of Gortnatraw, Kerrykeel, was originally charged with dangerously driving an 11-year-old car and causing serious harm to 29-year-old Gda McCallion in Tara Court.
He was also charged, along with 19-year-old Cathal Dunleavy, with stealing another car – a 15-year-old model, the property of Tonia O’Brien – in Tara Court on the same occasion.
Dunleavy of Meentagh, Glenvar, Kerrykeel, was also in Letterkenny court and he was remanded in custody until September for hearing. Dunleavy was on a week’s compassionate leave from prison – where he was serving nine months for petty crime – at the time of the incident involving Gda McCallion.
McGrenaghan was 17 at the time of his arrest but a court ruled his name could be published following his 18th birthday less than a week later.
Gda McCallion died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, on April 7th with his parents, Bob and Nancy, and other family members by his bedside. He was buried in his home town, Swinford, Co. Mayo.