JUDGE LEADS TRIBUTES TO FORMER COUNTY REGISTRAR JOSIE DUFFY

WARM tributes were paid at Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court to former county registrar, and returning officer for the Cavan/Monaghan constituency, Josephine (Josie) Duffy, of Cavany, Scotshouse, who passed away in Cavan Hospital on Sunday last
Before commencing proceedings on Monday morning, Judge Sean MacBride said he wanted to pay tribute to the late Ms Duffy, who was an absolute lady and had been an outstanding county registrar.
She had qualified as a solicitor as a mature student, going on to work in the offices of Mr Black in Clones. She had in fact been in the same solicitors’ passing out class as Judge MacBride himself in December 1975, although she was considerably older than those among them who were of student age.
Josephine made light of her studies, he recalled, when she worked in the office in Clones, and she used to head off at three o’clock every day in an old battered Volkswagen …