Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

Michael Fisher A petition started by supporters of Carrickmacross boxer Christina McMahon to put pressure on the World Boxing Council to order a rematch in Ireland with Zulina Muñoz reached over 1,000 signatures within four days of it being launched. But ‘Lightning’ McMahon has now been suspended indefinitely by the WBC after going public with a number of concerns she had about her title bout in Mexico in March.   She lost to Muñoz on a controversial unanimous points decision and was later promised a rematch. With the WBC continuing to stall on ...

A difficulty has emerged in getting a District Court judge to hear a case in which a former Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD is facing alleged assault charges. This emerged at a sitting of Carrickmacross District Court yesterday (Wed) when Judge Denis McLoughlin adjourned charges against Sean Conlan, 42, of Main Street, Ballybay, arising from an incident at his family-owned pub in the border town on 23rd August last year. Conlan, a lawyer, who resigned from Fine Gael before the last General Election and stood ...

The shooting dead of five cattle from a farm in South Monaghan last week was carried out by members of the Defence Forces for “public safety reasons”, Dáil Éireann has been told. Minister of State at the Dept of Justice and Equality David Stanton said that what he termed “some particularly offensive suggestions” made about the role of the Defence Forces in the incident, which occurred on July 5 last, had no basis in reality. The incident provoked outrage from animal rights groups and has elicited critical comment ...

Michael Fisher A High Court judge in Dublin is due to rule today (Thursday) on whether anti-pylon protestors can proceed with a legal case over EirGrid’s planning application for the North/South interconnector. An oral hearing in Carrickmacross conducted by two inspectors from An Bord Pleanála is now in its tenth week and is entering the final stage. The North East Pylon Pressure Campaign representing over 180 landowners in Counties Meath and Cavan is seeking a judicial review over the validity of the application submitted by EirGrid in June 2015. The company applied ...

By PATSY McARDLE TWO males, one a juvenile, were being questioned by gardai in Co. Monaghan earlier this week in a probe into a fire which tragically claimed the life of a South Monaghan man last month. The two were arrested by gardai in Carrickmacross on Monday and one was being questioned by detectives at Castleblayney, and the other male was being quizzed at Carrickmacross garda station. Both were being questioned about the death of Gerry Marron, a local man in his sixties, who died in a fire which swept through his dwelling ...

A FORMER Cavan/Monaghan Dail deputy, who resigned from Fine Gael, and lost his seat in the recent General Election–when he stood as an Independent–was further remanded on continuing bail in an assault case at Carrickmacross District Court, yesterday (Wed). Sean Conlan, with an address at Main Street, Ballybay, who was previously remanded on continuing bail of €100 from a number of earlier hearings, is facing charges relating to an alleged assault at his family-owned pub last year. Conlan resigned from Fine Gael because of what he termed as his “dissatisfaction over the ...

Gardaí have confirmed that an investigation is continuing into the cause of a house fire in Carrickamacross in which a 61-year-old man, Gerry Marron, lost his life. One unit from Carrickmacross Fire Station, backed up by one from Castleblayney, responded to a call from control at 1.31am on Monday morning last. It is understood that the blaze at 7 St. Macartan’s Villas, Carrickmacross, was brought under control in less than an hour and contained in the hallway, but that there was smoke damage elsewhere. Mr. Paul L’Estrange, Chief Fire Officer, Monaghan County Council, ...

A former Cavan/Monaghan Dail deputy who resigned from Fine Gael and lost his seat in the recent General Election, when he stood as an Independent, appeared in court yesterday (Wed) having been remanded on bail on charges relating to an alleged assault at his family-owned pub last year. Sean Conlan, who   resigned from Fine Gael—because of what he termed as his dissatisfaction over “the response” to issues he raised in the constituency—had been remanded from a previous sitting of Carrickmacross District Court on January 27th last on his own bail of ...

The anti-water charges movement Right2Water have called for a National Day of Action this coming Saturday February 20 assembling at 2 pm in Parnell Square, Dublin. Following on from a series of local and national mobilisations held over the past year, organisers are intent on ensuring the controversial water charges issue becomes a focal point for discussion over the remaining days of the General Election campaign. Sinn Féin councillor Seán Conlon, local co-ordinator with Right2Water stated: “Saturday’s event is a continuation in a series of anti-water tax rallies held locally and nationally since ...

The principal of a Carrickmacross secondary school that figured highly in a recent “league tables” survey published in the national press has questioned the value of the system in giving parents a complete picture of what schools have to offer. Principal of Carrick’s St Louis Secondary School Eileen English said this week that many parents of primary school children took a keen interest in the league tables published by the Sunday Independent on January 24. “Choosing the right second level school for a child is a process that parents invest a lot ...