By MICHAEL McDONNELL
michael@northern-standard.ie
IF Monaghan’s veteran public representative Hugh McElvaney had hoped his recent resignation from Fine Gael would put him in the media spotlight, he could hardly have foreseen the kind of blanket national broadcast and print coverage he is attracting this week — for all the wrong reasons.
In an investigative documentary aired on RTÉ television on Monday night, Cllr McElvaney is filmed telling an undercover female reporter that, for £10,000 sterling (roughly €13,800), he will help a company she pretends to represent to set up a wind farm project …