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  1. politicsMatt Carthy TD spoke in the Dáil: Mineral Oil Tax: Financial ResolutionCavan
  2. planningPlanning application received: for a 4-bay storage shed (22.5m x 8m x 6m), that includes no. 3 open...Cavan
  3. planningPlanning application received: to 1) Demolish existing single storey front porch and erect part single...Ballyhaise
  4. planningPlanning application received: To Retain upgraded Effluent Treatment System as designed and installed...Bailieborough
  5. planningPlanning refused: for RETENTION Permission for (a) demolition of former dwelling house and retention of...Blacklion
  6. planningPlanning conditional: for (1) Construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate loose bedded calf...Bailieborough
  7. planningPlanning application received: for the refurbishment and extension of the existing dwelling, including...Cavan
  8. planningPlanning application received: for the construction of a solar farm comprising the installation of...Crossdoney
  9. planningPlanning application received: 1) To construct a Slatted shed with underground storage tanks and...Cootehill
  10. planningPlanning application received: for the construction of a part single-storey, part storey-and-a-half...Kingscourt
  11. planningPlanning conditional: for: (1) Renovation and extension of the existing stone-fronted estate cottage,...Ballyjamesduff
  12. planningPlanning conditional: to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage form new entrance...Cavan

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06 Jul

Court refuses to reduce sentence for brothel keeper caught with child abuse material

By Fiona Magennis A Brazilian brothel-keeper who ran a network across rural Ireland, laundered �800,000 of the proceeds in various bank accounts and was found in possession of child abuse material, has failed...

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30 Jun

'Wouldn’t be out of place in a Tarantino movie': Lunney kidnappers challenge sentences for 'animalistic' torture and abduction

(File Picture: Darren Redmond (L) & Alan Harte (R). Photo: Collins) Three men who abducted Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, subjected him to “animalistic” levels of “protracted torture” and...

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02 Jun

'A shocking, shocking tragedy': man must first serve six-year term for trying to murder father before starting life sentence for murdering m

(Pictured: Sentencing judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Photo: Collins) A Cavan man must serve a six-year prison sentence for trying to murder his father before beginning a life sentence for murdering his mother in...

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19 May

'We never expected him to be grateful. But we never expected murder': man apologies to family for murdering mother and trying to murder fath

A man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father in an attack at their family home in Ballyconnell, County Cavan on 11 January 2025. The...

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15 May

No jail for passenger who sexually assaulted Ryanair cabin crew member

A 31-year-old man from Killeshandra, County Cavan, has received a fully suspended two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a Ryanair cabin crew member during a flight to...

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Ballinagh

Planning application received: to (1) Refurbish existing single storey derelict dwelling, (2) Erect part single storey /

119

Cootehill

Planning application received: 1) To construct a Slatted shed with underground storage tanks and attaching onto existing

80

Ballyjamesduff

Planning conditional: for: (1) Renovation and extension of the existing stone-fronted estate cottage, listed under rps r

62

Bailieborough

Planning application received: To Retain upgraded Effluent Treatment System as designed and installed for the Site, Reta

57

Ballyconnell

Planning application received: to construct a bungalow, new entrance, effluent treatment system & percolation, detached

47

Kingscourt

Planning application received: for the construction of a part single-storey, part storey-and-a-half detached dwelling, d

33

Belturbet

Planning conditional: to extend existing farm complex which consists of the following (a) demolition of existing 3 bay A

30

Kilnaleck

Planning conditional: for : (1) for Provision of a 2-storey extension to the office building and the alterations to exis

27

Virginia

Maximum awards to Zimbabwean care workers left in poverty when promised jobs fell through

23

Mountnugent

Planning application received: (1) To retain the existing single storey extension to the dwelling (2) Construct a new si

20

Shercock

New dormer dwelling with treatment plant and wastewater system

16

Killeshandra

Planning conditional: for a single storey extension and the construction of retaining structures to the rear of an exist

11

Ballyhaise

Planning application received: to 1) Demolish existing single storey front porch and erect part single / part two storey

9

Stradone

Planning application received: to demolish existing rear wall and front porch and to construct a single storey extension

9

Arva

Supreme Court won't hear challenge to extradition over 1979 IRA murder allegation

7

Blacklion

Planning refused: for RETENTION Permission for (a) demolition of former dwelling house and retention of new existing t

6

Swanlinbar

Planning conditional: for industrial extension to existing steel manufacturing & assembly facility approved under planni

5

Butler's Bridge

Planning application received: for an extension to existing place of worship; replacement roof; external and internal re

5

Kilcogy

Planning conditional: for a residential development comprising: (A) the refurbishment of existing derelict dwelling; (B)

5

Lough Gowna

Planning conditional: for (1) Demolition of front, back and side of existing single storey detached dwelling, (2) new si

4

Bawnboy

Planning application received: to erect an all-weather multipurpose pitch in replace of existing grassed pitch to includ

4

Redhills

Planning application received: for RETENTION of existing underground slurry storage tank with slatted area and solid pas

4

Crosskeys

Planning application received: for recovery and recycling of construction and demolition materials within a portion of a

2

Dowra

Death notice: Frank Maguire (Dowra)

2

Crossdoney

Planning application received: for the construction of a solar farm comprising the installation of solar photovoltaic (P

2

Mullagh

Pair jailed for sexually assaulting sleeping woman in private room at nightclub

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