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Cavan

1. a county of N Republic of Ireland: hilly, with many small lakes and bogs. County town: Cavan. Pop.: 56 546 (2002). Area: 1890 sq. km (730 sq. miles)
2. a market town in N Republic of Ireland, county town of Co. Cavan. Pop.: 6098 (2002)
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Down may have Benny Coulter up front, a player Pierson rates in the same breath as 'Gooch' Cooper", but Cavan have their own stars in poacher Jason Reilly and Pierson.
Neither team would have wanted another Ulster team standing in their way of making the Super 8s, especially Cavan coming off the back of an Ulster final loss to Donegal which will have hurt.
Niall Murray and Conor Madden grabbed points either side of a Cavan penalty which was coolly dispatched by Martin Reilly to give Cavan the dream start.
Biopharmaceutical company ContraVir Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqCM:CTRV) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed John Cavan as its chief financial officer.
Cavan, managing director of Welsh Window Systems, said: "Most of our work centres around the education of children, but we have also been funding the installation of fresh running water directly into homes."
Cavan Jr., and his wife, Karen, of Holden, and their children, John, Brian and Kathryn; daughter, Maryellen Cavan of Littleton, N.H.; son, Dennis Cavan of Worcester and his son, Andrew; son, Timothy F.
Last summer Cavan boss Andrews, despite his relaxed exterior, was feeling the pressure of a demanding county support and facing questions seeking answers about Cavan's slide from the forefront of Ulster football.
"Sometimes couriers show up here and think they've mistakenly walked into someone's apartment," remarks Cavan, a veteran of Canadian film and TV production.
But despite the verdict, shocked parents whose children were taught by Cavan during his 23 years at the school in the east end of Glasgow defended the 52-year-old.
In an interesting reversal of the pleas heard in many English cases, Mary Flanagan, who was charged with stabbing her husband during a dispute over clothes, told the police "if I kick and beat my husband, what is that to any other person?" When the Cavan Petty Sessions heard charges against Mary Fitzpatrick for beating her husband in the head with a shovel, she explained that he had failed to provide money to support their four children for the preceding six months.
Cavan said REITs already invested in nursing homes or retirement communities should have a relatively easy time diversifying into Assisted Living Facilities.
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