Residents of Monaghan village driven to distraction by prolonged road closure

For the past six months, since pillars collapsed at a mine and caused subsidence and created sinkholes, the people of Drumgossatt have had to use a narrow, one-way boreen to go to work, to school, and to shops. They are not convinced their main access road will reopen anytime soon, says Caroline O’Doherty.

A BOREEN in rural Monaghan is not the place to meet oncoming traffic.