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🚨Attention Community Groups🚨

My Department’s CLÁR Programme is now open for applications!

Grants of up to €50,000 are available for community groups for works such as:

✅Renovation works to community centres
✅MUGAs)/Astro-Turf facilities
✅Playgrounds/Skateboard parks/Pump tracks/Cycling tracks
✅Walking/Running/Athletics tracks
✅Handball Alleys/Tennis Courts/Basketball Courts/Cricket Grounds
✅Community Gyms/Community Cinemas
✅Sensory Gardens/Community Gardens/Allotments
✅Access to unique local heritage sites/areas of natural beauty
✅Outdoor Bowling Areas/Outdoor Toilet Facilities/Car Parking
✅Improving access at sports grounds e.g. development/upgrade of spectator stands at local sports grounds with a particular focus on improving access for people of all abilities and ages

Grant Range €5,000 up to €50,000

Community Groups in Monaghan can apply via Monaghan County Council here: https://bit.ly/3ZI34CP

Closing date is Monday 8th May

Cavan County Council will also invite applications shortly.

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On sale The Yank: My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA - by John Crawley. THE YEAR IS 1975. A young Irish-American is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive military training possible and then go to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end the British occupation of the North.

In this powerful and brutally honest memoir of his extraordinary experiences, John Crawley details the gruelling challenges of his Marine Corps training, and how, not long after his discharge, he joined the IRA. Soon he found himself in Boston, working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger to amass a shipment of weapons. When captured on the Marita Ann gun-running trawler off the Kerry coast, Crawley was imprisoned for ten years, and upon his release he became one of the masterminds behind the IRA’s plan to throw London’s electrical system into disarray. Crawley is blisteringly candid about the people he worked with and unflinching in his commentary on the IRA leadership.

Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative and passionate account of where that mission led him and why. To this day, he remains committed to the establishment of an all-Ireland Republic.

'Powerfully written and relentlessly nerve-shredding, it’s a modern-day masterpiece unlike any other book ever written about the war in the North of Ireland.’
Sam Millar, author of On The Brinks



‘The Yank is an extraordinary piece of work. No sentiment or self-pity; hardboiled and disarmingly direct. A compelling read.’
Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy



‘I read The Yank in one sitting . . . Crawley draws you in from the first line to the last and he doesn’t go . . . he writes with a candour and clarity that is both absorbing and direct. This is a seminal book that should be read by everyone with an interest in Irish affairs’
Richard O’Rawe, author of Blanketmen and

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