TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to a Fianna F\u00e1il councillor who passed away at his home in Monaghan today, aged 56.<\/p>\n
Seamus Coyle, who served on Monaghan County Council for 22 years, is remembered as a \u201chugely popular figure\u201d and advocate for people of Latton and the wider Ballybay Clones area.<\/p>\n
Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said he was \u201cvery sorry\u201d to learn of the death of a \u201cproud Monaghan man\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cS\u00e9amus worked tirelessly for his local community, constantly seeking to improve their lives and community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis long and unbroken service is testament to the regard his local community had for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was involved in many local organisations, again working tirelessly to improve his local community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin also commended his \u201cimmense work ethic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Coyle was first elected to Monaghan County Council in 2004 and was re-elected at every subsequent local election, topping the poll in 2014, 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n
During that time, he served as Cathaoirleach of Monaghan County Council on two occasions. He was the current Cathaoirleach of Ballybay Clones Municipal District.<\/p>\n
Fianna F\u00e1il Senator Robbie Gallagher said \u201ca very honourable man who gave great service to the people of Monaghan\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a great advocate for Monaghan people across so many different disciplines whether it be politics, GAA, agriculture, business, healthcare as well as other things,\u201d he said in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to a Fianna F\u00e1il councillor who passed away at his home in Monaghan today,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,11,12,33864,15,16,5765,35046,195982,5,5615,271787,7,8],"class_list":["post-642668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fianna-fail","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-local-government","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-micheal-martin","tag-monaghan","tag-monaghan-county-council","tag-news","tag-rip","tag-seamus-coyle","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117113656940528358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}