Another local garage closes its doors

Following yesterday’s news that McCabe’s Toyota dealership in Ardee and Drogheda had gone into receivership, it has also emerged that Rogers’ garage in Dundalk Retail Park has also closed its doors.

The Nissan dealership moved to the retail park a few years back having been based at Park Street/Dublin Street for years prior to that at the premises currently occupied by DIY store, Toolfix.

Nissan has been closed now for over a week with over a dozen staff reported to be now out of work.

Previously: McCabe’s Toyota garages go into receivership

Extension planned for Toolfix

Local DIY store Toolfix is set to be expanded after planning permission for the proposed extension was granted to owner Gerry Matthews by Dundalk Town Council.

The Dublin Street store have been given the go ahead for a single storey extension to the rear of what is the old Rogers’ Nissan garage.

Toolfix have also been granted permission to retain an existing structure to the rear of the building that had caused dispute with Cuchulainn Credit Union in the past.

No prosecution to arise from Rogers suicide

Shane Rogers

There will be no prosecution arising from an incident in which a man accused of murder hanged himself in his cell shortly after a court appearance.

Shane Rogers (32) from Deery Terrace, Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, had been charged with the murder of Armagh GAA footballer James Hughes when he took his own life in his cell shortly after appearing before Cloverhill District Court on December 20th, 2011.

At Dublin Coroner’s Court, Inspector Frank Kennefick said that the Garda investigation into Mr Rogers’s death had been completed and a file submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The response received by gardaí indicated that the DPP believed that there was no offence disclosed in the file and as a result no prosecutions will follow, he said. The inspector of prisons has also completed an investigation into the incident, he added, leaving the way clear to set a date for the inquest.

Mr Rogers was in prison on remand and on suicide watch for just more than a week when the incident happened. He faced charges in relation to the fatal shooting of Mr Hughes at Carrickmacross Road, Dundalk, nine days earlier as he travelled in a taxi with Mr Rogers’s former girlfriend. She was also injured in the incident. Mr Rogers presented himself at Carrickmacross Garda station after the murder.

Coroner Dr Brian Farrell set a date for a full hearing into the death on September 18th.

Source: The Irish Times