No monkey business as town salutes Tojo

A war mascot monkey who died 70 years ago in a suspected booze-fuelled army lockdown in neutral Ireland has been immortalised.

No monkey business as town salutes Tojo
Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 - 01:00
Lyndsey Telford

A statue of Tojo the monkey was erected in Clonakilty, West Cork, where he and a US air force crew made an emergency landing in a war plane in 1943.

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