Articles Archive for January 2014

On a breezy, wet but mild 2014 New Years Day 588 people registered and took part in the Emyvale Fun Run but the total number on the circuit was likely more as some just joined in, made a donation or had children along, which were not registered. This was up from 505 in 2013 and the organisers, The Jolly Joggers, had been fearful that due to the inclement weather that the numbers would be down. However it just shows that a drop of rain will not stop the enthusiastic runners and ...

The decline and fall of the furniture manufacturing sector in Co Monaghan forms a sobering case study for those seeking to understand the human impact of the globalising trends that shape modern economies. Over many decades, reaching a halcyon point in the 1980s, the sector was the pride of Co Monaghan enterprise, a vigorous source of employment and an export flagship – until irresistible international market forces reduced it to its modern state where large-scale production has ended and the remaining manufacturers have downsized considerably and are battling to ...

A WATER METER company director based in Crossmaglen has been charged in relation to an alleged €9 million diesel-laundering operation at Corragarry, Castleblayney in September 2011. Paul Haughey, a 34-year-old father of three, of St Joseph’s Place, Crossmaglen, was before Dublin District Court charged with removing or attempting to remove a prescribed marker from a mineral oil without the consent of the Revenue Commissioners on 1st September 2011, at Corragarry, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. A garda officer told Judge Michael Walsh that Mr Haughey was “caught red-handed” in a ...

By PATSY McARDLE A play written by popular Clones author and playwright Pat McCabe, which is to be screened by RTE-I TV on Thursday next 16th January at 10.15 p.m. should prove a huge national and international boost, for the annual Monaghan town Country Music Festival, which was launched very successfully last year and drew large crowds to the town. Titled “Play Next Door”, the production highlights the Monaghan country music event, giving it national significance and features a number of intrinsic insights to the country music ...

THE entire farming and business community throughout the wider Mid-Monaghan area was shocked and stunned last weekend by news of the tragic death following a road traffic accident in the North of Mr. Alexander (Alec) McEntee, Tullynaegish, Castleblayney. The deceased, who was in his mid-sixties died following the two vehicle collision on a roadway in Co. Tyrone. The tragedy occurred during a week in which a number of other sad fatalities took place in the same region. The late Mr. McEntee was a hugely respected resident in the wider Lough Egish area ...

A commitment to working with the elected members and executive of Monaghan Co Council to fully develop the newly emerging local authority role in fostering enterprise and economic development was made by new Co Manager Eugene Cummins when he attended his first meeting of the authority on Monday. “My emphasis will be on economic development and everything we can do to create and promote jobs,” Mr Cummins stated when he was introduced to the members by Co Mayor Sean Conlon prior to the Council commencing deliberations on its 2014 ...

THREE Romanian nationals — a man and two women — were ordered to return to their home country after pleading guilty to brothel keeping when they appeared at Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court. Madalina Enache (who is aged 18 and turns 19 on Thursday next, 16th January), Nicoletta Mitran (21) and Adrian Salageac (25), all with an address at 38 St Brigid’s Place, Portlaoise, Co Laois, were each charged with brothel keeping at ‘Montserrat’, Latlurcan, Monaghan town on 8th November of last year. Inspector James O’Leary said the Director of Public ...

Independent councillor Paudge Connolly won the backing of Monaghan Co Council on Monday for a motion calling on the Health Service Executive North East to ensure that all ambulances and emergency vehicles under their control were equipped with satellite navigation equipment. In moving the motion, Colr Connolly referred to recent cases in the Monaghan area where ambulances had taken an excessive amount of time to respond to emergency calls. In one situation an ambulance at the local scout hall had taken a further 15 minutes to reach Tyholland, ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE protracted wave of cattle rustling along the Monaghan/Armagh Border took a dramatic new twist last weekend, when several roadside buildings—including a closed country pub in Mid-Monaghan—had their walls daubed with an alleged New Year’s “Thieves’ List”! Gardai are investigating the daubing believed to have been carried out by self-styled ‘vigilantes’ and purporting to name individuals allegedly linked to the widespread theft of cattle on both sides of the Border! While frantic efforts were speedily made to remove the daubing from some ...

A new action plan to preserve the viability of the furniture manufacturing sector in Co Monaghan was detailed to the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday. Initiatives to identify new product areas and to examine alternative uses for vacant factory space are key components of the strategy, which aims to plot a productive future course for a sector that was once a major source of employment in the county but has been severely hit in recent years by the loss of export markets. Border Regional Authority Regional ...