CEEJAY’S NEW YORK TRIP WAS ONE TO REMEMBER!

By Cianna McNally

To say that Ceejay McArdle’s trip to New York was one to remember is putting it mildly!

As previously reported in The Northern Standard, four-year-old Ceejay from Castleblayney who has been affectionately dubbed Ireland’s youngest garda is currently in his last year of treatment for leukaemia, having been diagnosed when he was just two.

 Last month he was invited to New York by the NYPD Emerald Society to march with gardaí in the St Patrick’s Day parade on Friday last. Ceejay’s trip to the Big Apple, where he stayed for five days, was certainly memorable as his parents outlined.

  The fun began from the moment the family, who were accompanied by Sergeant Derek Rochford, local Castleblayney garda, Gary Sexton and Cootehill garda, James Morrisroe, landed at JFK International …