Articles in the Castleblayney Category

By PATSY McARDLE THE Town Mayor of Castleblayney, Cllr. James Cunningham, has announced the adoption of a novel new “ Fiver Friday” initiative, advocated by Joe Duffy on his RTE radio programme, which should prove a huge local trade boost, by attracting hundreds of extra shoppers to Blayney!.  He believes the scheme—-which it is claimed has recently proved successful in some other recession-hit towns across the country—- will attract many extra shoppers from all over the Mid-Monaghan region and ...

By PATSY McARDLE A number of men from the Border area and midlands were interviewed by the gardai and revenue authorities in the wake of a swoop last Thursday on an illicit diesel laundering operation at Corrygarry near Castleblayney, close to the South Armagh border. One man in his thirties was detained near the premises and the raid, which followed the earlier issue of search warrants, and was part of a major cross-country crackdown on illicit cross-border fuel trafficking, extended over ...

By PATSY McARDLE A CROSS-BORDER drama which brought unwelcome media focus on the Mullyash area of Co Monaghan and Castleblayney unfolded last Thursday in the wake of a Northern robbery which led to the partner and son of a security firm’s driver who was abducted in Belfast, being taken to an isolated house in the area, in what was described as a so-called “tiger” raid. The woman and 16-year-old son were freed after the man was forced to hand over a substantial sum of money – ...

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 ...

By PATSY McARDLE A CO. MONAGHAN law firm, which succeeded in securing a €3.75 million settlement in the High Court in Dublin last week, in a medical negligence claim on behalf of a 17-years-old youth, has made legal history!. The same firm has scored a “double” in the wake of the success of a somewhat similar action on behalf of a young Co. Monaghan girl in 2005—which then led to a record pay-out of €2.2 million!. It has emerged the well known Castleblayney law firm of ...

By PATSY McARDLE CASTLEBLAYNEY folk and drivers on the N2 Dublin-Derry road to the town were baffled yesterday (Wed) morning to discover a ‘Flying Pig” on the busy route!. Local eyebrows were raised over the apparent secrecy in the provision of the “Flying Pig” sculpture—in the wake of previous controversy at public authority level over a proposal to display a somewhat similar piece of “art-work” along the new bypass!. Confusion around the now sudden appearance of the “Flying Pig” centres around the earlier decision by the NRA to allocate funding ...

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 ...

Monaghan Co Council and the Lough Muckno Community Partnership are to explore future co-operative ventures to protect and enhance the Mid-Monaghan amenity that has come to be referred to as the “jewel in the crown” of the county’s tourism resources. A Community Partnership delegation addressed the July meeting of the Council on their plans to elicit the county authority’s backing for a strategic development plan they had evolved in relation to the Muckno facility. Although some members shied away from suggestions that a formal leasing arrangement be entered into between the Co ...

By PATSY McARDLE A 48-years-old South Monaghan man, who lived for periods near Carrickmacross and also at Castleblayney, was sentenced to six-and-a- half years’ imprisonment at the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin last Friday, for having possession of more that €2 million worth of cannabis resin, for sale or supply, at Swords Road, Santry, Dublin, on July 11th 2003. The court heard that Paul Byrne, with an address at Castleblayney, fled the country six years ago after he received a death threat when caught transporting the drugs. ...