Ballybay is to retain its Dept of Social Protection office “for the foreseeable future”, Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan has stated.
Indications that the office and the jobs attached to it would be transferred to Monaghan Town have generated a great deal of debate and controversy among both national and local political representatives in recent times, with the issue again emerging as a bone of contention at the most recent meeting of Monaghan Co Council.
Deputy Conlan told The Northern Standard that the office, which formally discharged a function of …