Articles in the BallyBay Category

Production at Silvercrest Foods in Ballybay has been temporarily suspended by the company until it has completed its investigation into the source of horse DNA traces detected in burger products. Preliminary details of further tests carried out by the Dept of Agriculture at the plant released last week showed that nine out of 13 burgers tested positive for traces of equine DNA. Seven samples of raw material were tested and one, sourced from another EU state, tested positive. All ingredients in the production of burgers sourced ...

The meat processing sector in Cavan/Monaghan was dealt a blow this week when beef burger products from two local plants were found to contain horse DNA in testing by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The ABP-owned Silvercrest Foods of Ballybay and Cavan’s Liffey Meats, as well as the UK company Dalepak Hambleton, were identified as the source of the products concerned. In all the presence of horse DNA was found in more than one third of beef burger products tested in a study by the FSAI. Pig DNA was ...

Looking forward has always been Paul Finlay’s game plan. The 2012 Monaghan Player of the Year has no plans to change tact now, especially after the tumultuous past 12 months he has just experienced. By KEVIN CARNEY been a bitter-sweet one for Paul Finlay. Over the course of 2012 the iconic Ballybay man went through the full gamut of emotions on both the personal and sporting fronts. He tied the knot with Monaghan town lass Donna Sheridan but buried his father Kieran last March. He captained the Pearse Brothers to a first ...

Ballybay’s captain finally graces the county final stage, and leads by example with an imperious performance. by COLM SHALVEY Ballybay reached the Promised Land after 25 years when they deservedly won last Sunday’s Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship Final against Clontibret in Clones. One of the best players in the county for so long, it took until last Sunday for Paul Finlay to play in a Senior Final, but he made the wait worth it with a trademark performance of composed football. Not only was he flawless with his free-taking, ...

History is written by the victors, they say.. who will get to write the latest chapter in this clash of two of GAA’s traditional titans? by JOHN GRAHAM he pairing for this Sunday’s final of the Gormley uPVC sponsored senior football championship is one that will evoke memories of some of the great county finals in the past although it is a fairly lengthy trip down memory lane as Ballybay and Clontibret last contested the final of the Monaghan senior football championship way back in 1959. That game went ...

The ageless appeal of Irish country and western music legend ‘Big Tom’ McBride added considerable pulling power to last weekend’s programme of fund-raising events staged by the Friends of Ballybay Cancer Society. Big Tom presided at the draw for a vintage diesel 20 tractor which was one of the highlights of the weekend – and the Oram balladeer performed some of his most popular hits to the delight of his assembled fans. Donated by Mickey Duffy, the tractor was won by Aidan Morgan of Cordevlis North, Braddox. ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Local primary school teacher Liz Duffy was elected unopposed as Mayor of Ballybay Town Council on Monday night last — at an AGM that was marked by an apparent rift in the Fianna Fáil camp when Therese Hamilton and Gerry Traynor ran head to head for the position of Deputy Mayor. After the unanimous election of Ms Duffy, the vice-principal at Scoil Éanna NS and wife of former town mayor the late Noel Duffy, Cathal O’Friel nominated Therese Hamilton for the position of Deputy Mayor (and vice-chairperson ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Up on 200 people from mainly rural and farming homesteads attended a packed meeting on the septic tanks issue at Ballybay’s Wetlands Centre last Thursday, where the keynote speaker was Fianna Fáil’s deputy leader Éamon Ó Cuív TD. Fear of the unknown is usually guaranteed to provoke interest, and when the uncertainty is about a possible new drain on people’s money at a time when that commodity is in increasingly scarce supply, it can be taken as read that any public meeting on the issue in question ...

Pictured are Orla Mc Phillips, Lauren Murphy and Muireann O’ Rourke from Ballybay Community College, Monaghan who won the Environment Agency Special Award for their project “Septic tanks: Old versus new!” at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 which was held at the BT Arena at Dublin’s RDS. Pictured giving the award was Annette Cahalane,  Communications Manager   EPA. A delighted principal Moya Lynch stated ‘We are so proud of the girls and their achievement and the EPA award bears testimony to the huge workload undertaken ...