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MONAGHAN

A man in his late teens died after the car he was driving lost control in County Monaghan.

The crash happened at Maghernakill on the Castleblayney-Dundalk Road shortly after 05:00 a.m. on Monday, July 30.

Gardaí (police) said the teenager lost control on a bend.

A girl in her late-teens who was a passenger was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
[Source: BBC News]

OFFALY

An “incorrigible burglar” who targeted a string of midlands pubs, including locations in Offaly, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. According to his own counsel, Eddie Wing (31) was a source of significant criminality in the Midlands area before he was caught and charged with five burglaries committed over a two-month period.

While last March a jury found Wing of Roscrea, Co. Tipperary not guilty of the manslaughter of Matt Farrell during a burglary of his pub in April 2009.

On Monday (July 30) Superintendent Pat Murray told Padráic Hogan BL, prosecuting, that Wing committed the break-ins to fund the drugs habits of a local group of heroin users. He took a total of $13,367 worth of cash, cigarettes and jewelery during the burglaries.
[Source: Offaly Express]

ROSCOMMON

Gardaí (police) have urged homeowners to secure their property and to be extra vigilant over the holiday season. This follows a recent spate of burglaries in the Roscommon and South Roscommon area.

Sergeant Ciaran Carroll last week urged homeowners, in isolated rural areas in particular, to take extra precautions and to ask neighbors to look in on their properties while away on vacation.
[Source: Roscommon Herald]

SLIGO

The director of the Yeats International Summer School has described the crumbling condition of a childhood holiday home that inspired W.B. Yeats and his brother Jack as a “scandal.”

Prof. James Pethica said W.B. Yeats had stayed in Elsinore in the seaside village of Rosses Point, Co. Sligo, frequently as a child and as a young man wrote part of The Celtic Twilight there. Jack B. Yeats’s watercolor Memory Harbour immortalized a scene close to Elsinore.

A smuggler known as “Black Jack” built the house in the 1830s and it was later purchased by William Middleton, Yeats’s grand-uncle. In later life, the poet recalled stories of secret tunnels and buried treasure that had thrilled him as a child.
[Source: Irish Times]

TIPPERARY

A war of words has erupted between Sinn Fein and Labour on Nenagh Town Council over the manner in which certain projects around the town have been announced.

Following last Monday’s council meeting, Clr. Seamus Morris issued a statement in which he accused the Labour Party of having “poisoned the atmosphere in the Nenagh council chamber with their antics of trying to claim everything in sight without recourse to their council colleagues.”

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