Background
Monaghan was born in Montrose, before moving to Inverness at the age of two with his family.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Monaghan was born in Montrose, before moving to Inverness at the age of two with his family.
He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and at the University of Stirling, where he gained a first class honours degree in Psychology and Sociology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Policy.
He was elected to the House of Commons in 2015, polling 15,831 individual votes or 46.3% of the cast vote, defeating the long-term incumbent Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament John Thurso by 3,844 votes. In the mid-nineties, he was employed with his family-run care home, the Balmoral Lodge Eventide Residential Home at Strathpeffer. The care home was deregistered in June 1995.
The police had investigated a complaint and released a statement that nothing of a criminal nature was revealed.
The council"s Registration Panel had met in private and had not revealed any misconduct, however following this social workers had moved into the home to take over the care of the 21 residents. He was employed as Head of Planning and Development at Northern Constabulary.
In 2008, he had been detained as part of the force"s investigation into an email that contained disparaging comments relating to a shake-up of the organisation. After six years working for the force, this triggered his resignation.
Monaghan joined the Scottish National Party in 1994 and has held various roles within their Wester Ross branch.
His constituency includes the Vulcan Nuclear Research Testing Establishment which houses the prototype nuclear propulsion plants of the type operated by the Royal Navy in its submarine fleet. As part of his election campaign, he advocated the decommissioning of Royal Navy nuclear submarines at this site. lieutenant was reported that he did not want "submarines polluting the waters of the Firth of Forth".
Offensive language
Monaghan was revealed in 2015 as having previously posted offensive comments on twitter relating to the British flag and royal family.
Monaghan was also revealed to have posted comments in 2012 accusing "the proud Jewish race" of persecuting Palestinians, claiming such treatment was reminiscent of the Nazis. These comments led to accusations of antisemitism from the Jewish Chronicle.
After being contacted in 2015 about the posts Monaghan, by then an Member of Parliament, deleted them and issued an apology. Distorted Mapping Controversy
Monaghan complained that the British Broadcasting Corporation "works to make Scotland literally appear less significant: "The British Broadcasting Corporation Versus Reality"." because the map of the United Kingdom they use on their weather forecasts does not show Scotland as large as one using Mercator Projection.
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He is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Prior to this several of the twenty members of staff had left or were suspended before then making complaints. Monaghan is a board member of UHI North Highland College, He is also a director of the Highland Homeless Trust.
