[1] McMonagle was arrested a week after the 1982 murder of Hugh "Lexie" Cummings - shot while driving home for lunch from his workplace in Strabane, County Tyrone.
[1] Democratic Unionist Party MP Jim Shannon used the legal immunity of parliamentary privilege in 2012 to link McMonagle with the Cummings murder.
[5] Though not elected, he did secure his deposit - which was lost by Fine Gael candidate Paddy Gildea.
[6] At the 2004 Letterkenny Town Council election, with nine seats available, McMonagle finished in seventh place - his first electoral success.
[7] At the 2014 Donegal County Council election, with ten seats available, McMonagle finished in sixth place, trailing James Pat McDaid, Ian McGarvey, John O'Donnell, Ciaran Brogan and Liam Blaney, and secured election to Donegal County Council for the first time.