Articles in the BallyBay Category

A female pedestrian in her sixties sustained injuries in a hit and run traffic incident at Main Street, Ballybay on Friday evening last. The pedestrian had to receive treatment at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda following the incident, which occurred around 8.45 pm. The vehicle involved failed to remain at the scene. Local Gardaí have appealed for anyone with relevant information to contact them. They would like to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and have requested people who may have video or ...

By Veronica Corr “Every man, woman and child has a right to a roof over their heads. If anyone in the Municipal District is put out on the street please get in touch with the Municipal District, who will bring it to the attention of Monaghan County Council,” Cathaoirleach Hugh McElvaney said at the outset of the recent monthly meeting of Ballybay/Clones Municipal District. The Independent elected representative let his disgust at the Government’s lifting of the Eviction Ban at the end of March be known, describing the move as ...

Town has 51 derelict properties, Municipal District informed A call was made at Monday’s meeting of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District for the owners of vacant residential and commercial properties in Ballybay to step up their engagement with the local authority with a view to implementing a scheme of urban regeneration in the town. It was stated that a recent survey had identified as many as 51 properties in the town that could be classified as derelict. Fine Gael councillor Sean Gilliland told the meeting that the potential existed in Ballybay for ...

The long campaign to equip Ballybay Fire Service personnel with a modern station facility reached a successful conclusion at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. The elected members endorsed a planning and development recommendation which will facilitate the construction of a new 504 square metre, two-bay fire station with a training tower and ancillary accommodation at Corrybrennan, Ballybay. 2024 is the completion date set for the project. In a report presented at Monday’s meeting, Co Council Senior Planner Adrian Hughes said that the planning authority “is satisfied that the proposed ...

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 ...

Ballybay Garda Eve McCrystal (right) and her blind paracycle partner Katie-George Dunlevy (left) celebrate after retaining their gold medal in the Paralympics. The Irish duo won the B time trial in a time of 47 minutes 32.07 seconds to claim their second medal of Tokyo 2020 and retain the title they won at the Rio Games five years ago. Pic: Paralympics Ireland (see further report inside).

COLM SHALVEY The Monaghan Football Championship season is up and running, with the second round of group games taking place this weekend. The regular reminder that league form (perhaps more so than ever this year) comes with a health warning arrived last weekend, as the likes of Scotstown, Inniskeen, Latton and Aughnamullen reversed recent league defeats to make winning starts to their championship campaigns. Scotstown gave a reminder of their determination to retain the SFC with a convincing win over Magheracloone. The holders made light of the absence of Conor McCarthy ...

Chief Executive Officer of Enterprising Monaghan Finbarr Daly has issued the following clarification following last week’s article about the damaged pontoon at the Ballybay Wetlands Centre, which had featured in a video published on a Facebook page about Ballybay. The Northern Standard is happy to add his comments on the present position and repeats his appeal that people should not use it under any circumstances. Last week we reported that Mr Daly told members of Ballybay Clones Municipal District the management had spent quite a lot trying to repair the ...

Communnity Centres could facilitate remote working Michael Fisher Two centres in the Ballybay and Clones areas are among over fifty sites throughout the country that have been connected to the world wide web this month under a National Broadband Plan initiative designed to connect local communities. As reported elsewehere, the two centres now providing public access to the world wide web are at the Wetlands building in Ballybay and at the hall at Connons, in the Drummully salient a few kilomteres from Clones. In a presentation to the September meeting of Ballybay ...

Storytelling is alive and well in Co. Monaghan, as evident by a recent entry to a national story writing competition called Stories from the Waterside. A short story written by Fearghal Duffy from Ballybay was selected from almost 500 entries as a winner and has also been published in the Stories from the Waterside anthology launched during National Heritage Week, a unique collection of personal stories connected with Ireland’s rivers, lakes, wetlands and coastal areas. The competition ran in April and May during the Covid-19 lockdown. It focused on collecting ...