Articles Archive for November 2011

veronica corr Carrickmacross Town Council passed a vote of congratulations to retired Garda duo Valerie and Anthony Campion at Monday’s meeting. They also plan to make a presentation to the couple at a future meeting of Carrickmacross Town Council. Fianna Fail Cllr. Padraig McNally, who was in attendance of their retirement function in the Nuremore Hotel last Thursday night, said that Valerie had been the first female Garda ever to be stationed in Carrickmacross 28 years ago. Their former colleagues in Carrickmacross Garda Station were delighted that the retiring husband and wife got the ...

The Annual Awards Ceremony of Co Monaghan HSE Community Games took place on Tuesday, 1st November, in the Glencarn Hotel, Castleblayney. Mr Leo Marron, Chairman, extended a warm welcome to invited guests, members of the County Executive Committee, members of Area Committees, team managers, parents, and in particular, to the young people receiving awards. The ceremony commenced with a very entertaining performance from the U13 choir from Truagh who were winners of the gold medal at the National Finals in Athlone. Awards were then presented to competitors who had won ...

CREMARTIN 1-07 SHERCOCK 1-03 JOHN GRAHAM reports It is generally recognised that the team that learns most from a drawn game generally wins the replay and if that premis is applied to last Sunday’s Ulster junior club football championship quarter final replay then it was Cremartin who learned most as they deservedly advanced to the semi-final at the expense of Cavan champions Shercock in this well contested and at times exciting game in Clones on Sunday last. Conditions, weather-wise, were quite good with some very welcome ...

Joint Glenswilly boss Gary McDaid sounds a note of cautious optimism ahead of this Sunday’s Ulster Club SFC test with Latton.by KEVIN CARNEY Punters in Breffni land won’t need reminding that it’s Glenswilly and not Cavan Gaels who’ll go toe-to-toe with Latton this Sunday in the quarter-final of the Ulster club SFC. MacCumhaill Park, circa 2.30pm, is destined to feel like Rio De Janiero without the carnival for any exiled Breffni blues that may pop into the Ballybofey bastion of Gaelic games for a cheap gawk at what might have been. Glenswilly didn’t ...

THE community and voluntary sector in Co Monaghan got some much-needed good news on Saturday night last as word filtered back from the ‘Pride of Place’ Gala Awards ceremony in Gorey, Co Wexford that two of the county’s three entrants in this year’s competition had been awarded the runners-up spots in their respective categories. On Sunday morning, the communities of Glaslough and Inniskeen awoke to the news that their endeavours to improve their area had been recognised at the highest level. Glaslough received the ‘first runner up’ title and ...

A man from a Travellers background who was arrested for a public order breach in Carrickmacross last Sunday night and who had 118 previous convictions was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Monaghan District Court on Monday, in a case where the defendant’s tragic personal circumstances were also outlined. John McDonagh (42) of St Margaret’s Halting Site, Finglas, and with a new address at 2 St Vincent’s Park, Navan admitted to the court that he was intoxicated in public and had failed to comply with garda directions at Drummond ...

The promotion of Monaghan United to the Premier Division of the Airtricity League of Ireland offers a much bigger promotional opportunity to County Monaghan at this time than ever previously. In the way the Premier Division is now structured and covered in the Media, the focus on the League, the Clubs and Commercial backing of Clubs receives a much higher profile. In the Premier Division, Monaghan will feature on television highlights and/or live games every week through the Season, will be featured in press photography and sports coverage in all ...

FINE Gael Dail deputy Sean Conlan has this week refuted a claim by Sinn Fein’s Deputy Caoimhghin O’Caolain of ‘double standards’ in relation to Monaghan General Hospital, and has, in turn, highlighted what he described as “the double standards and hypocrisy of Sinn Fein”. In a statement issued yesterday, Deputy Conlan said “ Sinn Fein is always telling the public that they are an All-Ireland party. In Northern Ireland they are in government where they are introducing severe cuts to the Health Service because ...

The commissioning by Monaghan Co Council of a helicopter to take aerial photographs of the severe flooding which afflicted the county a number of weeks ago may have generated some passing concern at Monday’s meeting of the authority as to the cost value of the exercise (see story, page one), but the evidence produced and circulated at the meeting conveyed much more graphically than words the gravity of the plight which some of our communities were plunged into by this severe weather event. The visual evidence also contextualised the ...

Monaghan Co Council are to convene on Monday, December 19 next to consider the adoption of what Acting Co Manager David Fallon described on Monday as “the most difficult Annual Budget in a generation.” Mr Fallon told Monday’s meeting of the Council, at which the date for the Annual Budget Meeting of the authority was fixed, that this would be the most difficult Budget to come before the members since the late 1980s. The Acting Manager delineated a number of aspects of the Council’s finances for the year ...