The paper's out... What's in this week's Meath Chronicle!

This week's Meath Chronicle is out now and we lead with the story of Yaroslan, who escaped the horrors of Chernobyl as a child to spend holidays with a loving family in Summerhill, Co Meath. Now he is back with that same family, with his beautiful own family having fled war!

Gavan Reilly is in Washington for what will be a muted St Patrick's Day celebration and he explains why the chat around the shamrock bowl this year has added importance.

We take an indepth look at a heated Council chamber debate that questioned the policies behind accommodating homeless men recently and why the council housing department were accused of playing 'pass the parcel with a homeless man'.

St Patrick's Day and a double bank holiday weekend approaches. As the county prepares to turn green, Dunboyne didn't wait to kickstart the celebrations and held its parade last Sunday, we have all the photos.

The Fuel Crisis continues to dominate and we speak to those severely affected by rocketing costs. Coach firm chief James Carolan who operates 24 school contracts said: “Our costs have gone up hugely and I don't know where it is going to end."

The people of Meath continue to show amazing generosity in looking to assist the people of Ukraine. We speak to more kind-hearted communities who have filled trucks full of aid destined to get to those displaced by the Russian invasion. Heroes all!

Fergal Lynch and Jimmy Geoghegan have put together a cracking 20-pages of sport including reflections on a great win over Cork for Andy McEntee and his Meath footballers.

There's lots more there besides including a chat with Kilmessan hero Lisa Rooney Smith and a profile of renowned Navan artist Patrick Reel whose retrospective exhibition opened in Dublin Castle’s State Apartment Galleries last week.

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