The Anglo-Celt Review of the year – May
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Pupils of Irish dance school Rince BJD celebrating following their first team performance at the World Irish Dance Championships in Dublin, Easter week. They placed 24th in the world. Teachers Aoife Keogan, Maire Dixon and Aisling Fox are photographed with dancers Bella Caffrey, Clodagh Conaty, Grace Madill, Ellie McInerney, Anusha O’Neill, Lauren Kelly, Caoimhe Lynch and Zara Caffrey. Photo: Kristina KellyImage 2 of 5
Young Archie Murphy Wall will require a kidney donation in years to come.Image 3 of 5
A grave stone found by Cavan Tidy Towns during their revamp of Annagelliffe Cemetery which reads ‘Pray for Soul of Peter Martin who died June 22 yr 1761 aged 61.’Image 4 of 5
Cathaoirleach TP O’Reilly with Con Horgan of Cavan Arts Festival just before the launch of the Pedal Parade from Con Smith Park. PHOTO: SARAH HARDINGImage 5 of 5
Donny McAvenue and Emil Kapusta, also known as Dirty Marmalade, released their ’ is a restless, inventive, memorable debut album, The Hills of Breifne.27 drug drivers banned in single day
MORE than two dozen drug drivers were put off the road when their cases were finally concluded at Cavan District Court last week. It followed a failed bid by legal reps to have the cases struck out based on a Supreme Court challenge to the requirement for drivers to wait at checkpoints pending a roadside drug test.
On hold for 121 days
A LOCAL woman who only got her landline phone service restored last Friday (April 25), four months after Storm Éowyn, believes there is a massive disconnect between the standard of service provided to those living in rural and urban areas. Barbara ‘Bee’ Smith is a poet and creative writing facilitator living in Dowra with her husband Tony Cuckson.
McDonald’s on the menu for €1.8M
THE McDonald’s restaurant complex in Cavan, located along the N3 at Pullamore Business Park, has been listed for sale with €1.8 million price tag attached. The property, which also includes two workshop units currently leased to the National Car Testing service (NCT) and a local veterinary practice, are also included.
Sentence for Clones schoolgirl deaths driver
Anthony McGinn (61) of Drumloo, Newbliss, Co Monaghan was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court for dangerous driving causing the deaths of Clones teenagers Kiea McCann and Dlava Mohamed on the way to the Largy College Debs in July 2023.
“There is no justice for this. My child’s life is gone and never coming back,” said Kiea’s mother Teresa McCann.
Smiling Archie highlights the importance of organ donation
A NINE-MONTH-OLD Cavan baby, who has overcome meningitis and sepsis and had one of his kidneys removed, has become one of the faces of Organ Donation Week 2025. Baby Archie was born five weeks early weighing just five pounds 10 ounces to Shanice Murphy from Co Kildare and Cormac Wall from Cavan Town.
Gyproc mine gets planning go ahead
CAMPAIGNERS who oppose the open-cast excavation of a mine that collapsed beneath a local GAA ground nearly seven years ago say that, despite assurances, their concerns are “still real”. An Bord Pleanála upheld a decision by Monaghan County Council to grant planning to Saint-Gobain Mining (Ireland) Limited - parent company to Gyproc - for renewed mining activity at a former gypsum mine at Drumgoosat on the Cavan Monaghan border. The underground mine closed in 1989.
Sod turned on St Christopher’s Hospice project
WORK is underway to deliver a state-of-the-art hospice facility on the outskirts of Cavan Town by early 2027. Tánaiste Simon Harris was in town on May 2, to turn the sod on the multi-million euro St Christopher’s redevelopment project. He praised the community’s role in helping deliver the €13.5M 16-bed specialist hospice facility for the region.
Cllr Adrian Rogers takes a seat
Newly co-opted Aontú Councillor Adrian Rogers took a seat in Cavan County Council. The Canningstown publican filled the vacancy left after his partner, now Senator Sarah O’Reilly, was successfully elected to Seanad Éireann back in January.
Jailed in relation to fatal hit and run
Evaldas Gailiunas (40) was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, with the final year suspended, at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court, for charges arising from the death of a pedestrian killed in a hit and run on the N3 almost three years ago. The man with an address at Lismeen Hills, Ballyjamesduff, was told by Judge John Aylmer that he showed “extreme callousness” in his actions following the collision that claimed the life of Frank Nulty (57) from New Inns.