Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

A man from a Travellers background who was arrested for a public order breach in Carrickmacross last Sunday night and who had 118 previous convictions was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Monaghan District Court on Monday, in a case where the defendant’s tragic personal circumstances were also outlined. John McDonagh (42) of St Margaret’s Halting Site, Finglas, and with a new address at 2 St Vincent’s Park, Navan admitted to the court that he was intoxicated in public and had failed to comply with garda directions at Drummond ...

By PATSY McARDLE FARMERS and other residents in the South Monaghan area have expressed strong condemnation over the dumping last week of diesel sludge—a product of illicit fuel laundering by racketeers—on the Crossmaglen Road outside Carrickmacross. Last week, a Monaghan county council environment team was called to deal with a possible pollution threat posed by the illicit dumping. The emergency clearance operation was necessary to prevent diesel sludge—the substance left after a fuel “doctoring” operation to remove colouring from tax-rebated fuel so that it ...

By PATSY McARDLE A 29-years-old Carrickmacross man who was the driver of a car which claimed three lives, and the life of an unborn infant, in a horrific crash in South Monaghan, was ordered to spend three years in prison by a judge at a sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court in Carrickmacross on Tuesday last. Kevin McArdle of Longfield, Carrickmacross, appeared in custody and pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in the wake of a three-vehicle ...

A 33-years-old Co. Monaghan female shop assistant who stole in excess of €80,000 from her employer over a period of several weeks in 2009 and 2010 was ordered by a judge to undertake 240 hours community service, as an alternative to a two-year jail sentence at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. Linda Creegan, of 4, The Grove, Corduff, Carrickmacross, and also with an address at Ardenew, Longwood, Co. Meath, pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing cash in excess of €80,192 from Terry Cassidy ...

By Veronica Corr Last Thursday night, the grotto incorporating the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes on Castle Street, commonly known as the Convent Hill adjoining the Ardee Road, was vandalised. The statue was so badly smashed that it has been deemed beyond repair. Local people on their way to Mass on Friday morning discovered that the statue had been destroyed and reported the vandalism to long-term caretaker Eddie Byrne. The statue was presented to Brother Serenus by a nun in Portadown, and he decided to erect the shrine, which was unveiled ...

A 38-years-old Lithuanian national, Zigimantas Gridziuskas, with an address at Ard Ross Avenue in Carrickmacross, appeared at a sitting of the District Court in Dundalk last Thursday on four charges arising from a collision on the N2 Dublin/Derry Road at Tullyvaragh Upper near Carrickmacross on Tuesday night of last week last, in which a 23 –year’s-old law student, Shane O’Farrell of Magheraboy, Carrickmacross, was fatally injured. The victim was cycling on the roadway when the collision occurred and was later ...

TWO families were engulfed in grief this week after separate weekend tragedies which claimed two lives in Mid-Monaghan and left a third man seriously injured in hospital. The first fatality took place late on Sunday night on the main Castleblayney-Ballybay Road (R183) at Killycrum, a short distance from Doohamlet village, in which a pedestrian, Michael Murphy, in his mid-thirties, of Cois Locha, Doohamlet, was struck by a car which also collided with a roadside wall at a dwelling, causing severe head and shoulder injuries to the driver, also a ...

CARRICK MAN BENEFITS FROM JAIL ‘JOKE”! By PATSY McARDLE A YOUNG Carrickmacross man who was sentenced to three months imprisonment from the District Court earlier this month, when convicted for public order offences, has highlighted the present ridiculous “revolving door” dilemma in relation to the Irish prison service! The prisoner has indicated how he unexpectedly benefited from the situation in a way that has undoubtedly proved hugely embarrassing for the State, the gardai, and the courts’ service!. It emerged yesterday that while the prisoner was transported at ...

JOHN GRAHAM reports CARRICK 0-11 SEANS 1-07 arrickmacross who were relegated from senior ranks last year got their intermediate championship campaign off to a winning start but they were pushed all the way by a resolute Sean McDermotts in this highly charged and at times robust opening round game in Clontibret on Sunday evening last. Playing conditions were very difficult due to the strong breeze and the heavy rain and this did lead to problems for both sets of players but they compensated with a full blooded ...

By Veronica Corr THE Cavan/Monaghan branch of the Green Party had three reasons to celebrate this week, as three of their members hailing from Carrickmacross won positions of national significance. Firstly, former Carrickmacross Town Councillor, Catherine Martin claimed a decisive victory to become Deputy Leader of the Green Party, becoming the first woman ever from the Cavan/Monaghan Constituency to hold such a post within an Irish Political Party. Catherine, who lives in Rathfarnham and teaches in Dundrum, told The Northern Standard that one of the reasons she resigned from the local authority was ...