Articles in the Castleblayney Category
MAJOR JOBS ANNOUNCEMENT
BY ‘BLAYNEY-BASED RENEWABLE
ENERGY SPECIALISTS
Castleblayney, General News, Headline »
BY ‘BLAYNEY-BASED RENEWABLE
ENERGY SPECIALISTS
Diversified renewable energy group NRG Panel of Castleblayney has announced that it will create up to 125 new highly skilled jobs across the island of Ireland within the next three to five years. CEO Conor Foley said this week that the business is investing heavily to drive the next stage of its growth, including plans to double business within the next three years, supported by its investor, leading private equity firm Melior Equity Partners. Melior Equity Partners Fund II is backed by the European Investment Fund, the Irish Strategic Investment ...
A DAY FOR THE BOOKS! – GOVERNMENT MINISTERS OPEN NEW LIBRARY AND HEALTH FACILITIES
Friday, November 10 last was assuredly “a day for the books” in Co Monaghan. Literally so in Castleblayney where Minister for Rural and Community Development and local TD Heather Humphreys cut the tape to inaugurate the town’s new library facility – having two days earlier performed the official opening of the new 15-classroom extension at ‘Blayney’s Our Lady’s Secondary School. Elsewhere in the county on Friday Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was also a busy man, doing the honours for the official openings of the new Primary Care Centres now ...
FUTURE PROTECTION OF MUCKNO AMENITY MUST BE PRIORITY SAY TOWNSPEOPLE
Castleblayney, General News, Headline »
The future protection of Castleblayney’s Lough Muckno into the future must be the governing priority in any new development plans, a local group has stated. The Friends of Muckno organisation has delivered its assessment of the recent analysis conducted by consultants Fehily Timoney of the “Vision” plan presented to Monaghan Co Council in 2021 outlining options for the future use of Hope Castle and the surrounding Muckno estate. The group has welcomed aspects of the consultants’ assessment and set out their views in detail in the following statement: The Lough ...
MINISTER ACCUSED OF “POLITICALLY MOTIVATED DISCRIMINATION” ON N2 PROJECTS
Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, Contibret, General News »
Cavan/Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has accused Transport Minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan TD of “politically motivated discrimination against Co Monaghan” over the failure of major road improvement schemes on the N2 to secure adequate funding in order to progress. Deputy Carthy this week said that Minister Ryan has removed funding for projects that were prioritised in the National Development Plan and diverted it to projects that were not. “Only a political intervention from Minister Ryan’s coalition partners can ensure that these road projects are advanced,” he ...
CASTLEBLAYNEY COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE YOUNG SCIENTISTS PRIZEWINNERS
Castleblayney College students Caoimhe Quinn and Hannah Quinn were prizewinners at the 2023 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition which took place in the RDS in Dublin last week. The students were highly commended in the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences category for their project “U’Ve Been Framed?” Students from Largy College, Clones, Castleblayney College, Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney, Coláiste Dún an Rí, Kingscourt, Loreto College, Cavan and Breifne College, Cavan were also participants in the competition. Shane O’Connor and Liam Carew, aged 19 and in sixth year in the ...
BALLYBAY HORSE BREEDER AND WIFE KILLED IN N2 COLLISION
Castleblayney, General News, Headline »
A three-vehicle road traffic accident on the N2 near Castleblayey on Thursday last October 27 claimed the lives of a well-known Ballybay horse breeder and his wife. Ronnie and Jean Hollinger from Creevagh House, Ballybay died when their vehicle was in collision with another car and a motor lorry. The couple were in their 60s. Mr Hollinger was well-known in sport horse breeding circles and ran the Creevagh House Stud, located near Ballybay, with his family. Mrs Hollinger was a trained general and psychiatric nurse. The couple shared a strong ...
ARREST IN CASTLEBLAYNEY AFTER HIGH-SPEED CHASE IN SOUTH ARMAGH
A 16-year-old male was arrested by the Garda in Castleblayney on Wednesday evening last following an incident in South Armagh in which a PSNI vehicle was rammed by a stolen camper van during a high-speed chase. The PSNI deployed helicopters and a dog unit to attempt to intercept the vehicle, which was believed to be linked to a burglary carried out at a house in the Tandragee area earlier in the day, when the property was ransacked and jewellery and cash were taken. Two male suspects abandoned the vehicle in ...
MINISTER CONGRATULATES NORTHERN STANDARD JOURNALIST ON RETIREMENT
BallyBay, Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, General News »
After more than seven years working as a reporter for The Northern Standard, Tydavnetbased Michael Fisher has announced his retirement from the paper. He has been covering the Ballybay/Clones Municipal District since his appointment to the staff in 2018. Previously Michael worked for the Standard as a freelance and spent some time covering the Carrickmacross/Castleblayney area. He has also reported on the Monaghan Municipal District area. Although he has reported expertly and with insight on a wide range of stories, Michael has perhaps been mostly closely identified during his time ...
MINISTER’S DÁIL PRAISE FOR YOUNG CASTLEBLAYNEY AUTHOR
A 14-year-old student from Castleblayney who has written a book about legendary local community activist Sr Celine McArdle was singled out for praise by Minister for Community and Rural Development and Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys TD when she addressed the Dáil last week on International Women’s Day. Minister Humphreys said that Molly Ward – whose book on the “trail-blazing” Sr Celine had been launched at an International Women’s Day event organised by Blayney Blades at the town’s Íontas Centre – was an example of the “wonderful generation of ...
NORTHERN STANDARD AND BORDER JOURNALISM MOURNING THE PASSING OF PATSY McARDLE
Castleblayney, General News, Headline »
‘Blayney reporter’s life and work generate multitude of tributes By Peter Hughes The Northern Standard, the community of Castleblayney, and the Border region and national theatres of journalism, lost an essential personality on Thursday, January 6 last with the passing at the age of 82 of Patrick J McArdle, Knockagolis. Patsy, as he was universally known, had been a full-time member of the reporting staff of this newspaper for over 40 years and was one of the most prominent and respected members of his profession in the Border counties and nationally. ...