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Gardaí probe alleged assault involving Fine Gael TD

The incident happened at around 8pm on Sunday in Conlan’s pub in Ballybay.

AN INVESTIGATION IS under way into after two men, including Fine Gael TD Sean Conlan, claimed to have been assaulted during an incident in a Monaghan pub.

The incident happened at around 8pm on Sunday in Conlan’s pub in Ballybay after a row broke out.

It’s understood that Conlan, a TD for Cavan-Monaghan, was present and involved in the incident.

He subsequently made a statement to gardaí and is believed to have claimed he was assaulted by a man who had been abusing him.

Gardaí said that a man in his 20s was allegedly assaulted and received minor injuries which did not require hospital treatment.

No arrests were made and an investigation is ongoing.

Several newspaper reports this morning say that a glass was smashed and minor lacerations were inflicted on a man but these could not be confirmed.

The pub is owned by the Conlan family, but is currently leased to a third paty. It is beside the deputy’s constituency office.

Conlan was first elected to the Dáil in 2011.

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    Mute Eugene Walsh
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:01 AM

    Thought for a sec Chris de burgh was after assaulting an FG head !

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    Mute Lou Tennant
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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:59 AM

    It must pain you to write this article shedding a possible bad light on FG hugh?

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    Mute littleone
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:42 AM

    According to other media outlets. Both men have statements to gardai. An eyewitness told the Irish Independent that a man in his 20s was “headbutted” and later stabbed in the arm with a glass by an older individual. So I am guessing the older individual is the td.

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    Mute Cal Mooney
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:24 AM

    FG up to their necks in criminality once more.

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    Mute Derek Byrne
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:00 AM

    So who assaulted who ?

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:17 AM

    Another media outlet reporting it in a much less convoluted/more straightforward manner. The TD got involved in a row with a man in his 20s who allegedly became a nuisance, and the man in his 20s received lacerations from a broken glass.

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    Mute Lou Tennant
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:22 AM

    I’d like dome of that kind of straight forward reporting on here once in a while.

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:34 AM

    If it were a left wing TD, this mornings Indo would have had a pull-out supplement on beer glasses.

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    Mute Pádraig Ó Braonáin
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:56 AM

    Moderator….why did you remove my post, sure I was just reporting what was already in the media about the TD’s past and a possible link to this new incident?

    With respect Hugh…I ask you to please explain the censoring of my input TKS

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:19 AM

    FG…..turning hope into slavery since 2011.

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    Mute Ray Farrelly
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:21 AM

    The blueshirts haven’t gone away you know.

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:01 AM

    This is a complete non story. If Conlon gets arrested come back to us. Other then that its just click bait.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:13 AM

    A TD under investigation is not click bait.

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    Mute Chris Mansfield
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:43 AM

    I thought there were no comments on issues under investigation by the gardai.

    Still, pretty much every pub has to have CCTV nowadays, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find out what actually happened.

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    Mute DisruptiveTechnology
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:37 PM

    assuming it doesn’t turn out to be on the fritz, on the night of the incident in question… ;-)

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:32 AM

    Conlan slags off Enda Kenny and his life goes into a spin. Coincidence?

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    Mute Diarmuid Doran
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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:08 AM

    Fine Gael , return to their roots

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    Mute John James
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:10 AM

    Young tommy buck from up yonder he’s awful eejit

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    Mute Denise Friary
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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:06 AM

    it’s a common for people when TDs and senators are present in pubs and restaurants for them to be ignored and refused a hand shake.

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    Mute Diarmuid Doran
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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:11 AM

    Could we have a Journal poll on Fine Gowl TDs being allowed into pubs near planes that were looked at by Pat Kenny ( he’s gone to Newstalk ) that might have heard Garth Brooks isn’t playing at Croker ?

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    Mute Diarmuid Doran
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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:13 AM

    Article could be authored by Hugh O Comeon , Political Assault Editor for Fine Gowl

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    Mute Des Doran
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    Aug 25th 2015, 1:43 PM

    And he hasn’t even started canvassing yet

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    Mute Blacksod63.
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:30 AM

    So ? Fights happen in pubs.

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:39 AM

    They should ban TD’s going into pubs…..always causing trouble.

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    Mute Tap Solny
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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:41 AM

    TDs not TD’s.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:12 AM

    Up there with the plane that didn’t crash in ireland story from earlier on today.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 3:04 PM

    I went to school with the lad leasing it. Must find out the goss

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:32 PM

    a pure mucksavage blueshirt

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    Mute MBA Tosser
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:07 PM

    TDs always lose their veneer when back home in the local boozer.

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    Mute Tap Solny
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    Aug 25th 2015, 1:37 PM

    Aping their Northern Ireland brethren, some border residents can, at times, act in a manner that would not be described as tolerant.

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