GARDAÍ HUNT FOR CANOE THIEVES

Our photograph by Rory Geary shows local musicians Gráinne Duffy and Paul Sherry in the course of
bringing the curtain down in style on last weekend’s Rhythm and Blues Festival in Monaghan Town.
The strong local flavour lent by the Castleblayney songstress and the Tydavnet guitarist, augmented by
the presence of another Co Monaghan musician Tony McManus on bass, to the close of the bill show was
emblematic of the distinctly Monaghan and Irish feel struck by this year’s event, which packed out the
various venues across the centre of the ….