Articles in the BallyBay Category

Michael Fisher Former soldiers from Monaghan and their colleagues will gather in Ballybay on Sunday to hold a memorial service and render honours to a United Nations veteran Sgt Patrick Duffy, who was one of the group known as the “Jadotville Tigers”. The ceremony has been organised by the 29th Infantry Battalion Association, whose members recently attended a Jadotville Day in Athlone to pay tribute to the members of ‘A’ Company 35th Infantry Battalion. Sgt Duffy’s parent unit was 2 Hospital Company and he was posted to the Congo in ...

OTHERS IN COUNTY WILL ALSO FOLLOW THE ‘INTEGRATED’ APPROACH, OFFICIAL OPENING EVENT TOLD By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THERE are many areas across the country that can take their inspiration from Ballybay, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys said as she officially opened what is Co Monaghan’s first Integrated Play Park on Monday morning. The additional playing facilities to cater for children with disabilities were added to the Town Park’s playground towards the end of summer, and the result is that that many youngsters with special needs can ...

Ballybay Girl Guides have received the highest award the organisation can confer. Mia Mackie, Jade Mooney and Charlotte McQuillan were among 107 girls from around the country honoured by a special ceremony in Croke Park on Saturday last October 14 for reaching the pinnacle of Guiding: the Trail Blazer National Award. Each Girl Guide received a Trail Blazer gold pin and a National Guide Award certificate from Irish Girl Guides (IGG) President Maureen Murphy and …

A WOMAN of eastern European nationality lost her life following a collision last Saturday evening between the car in which she was a front-seat passenger and a jeep-type vehicle that was coming in the opposite direction. The incident also led to the arrest of a 44-year-old man of Spanish nationality, who was charged with dangerous driving causing death when taken before Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court. The accident occurred at around 4.45pm at Feragh, on the Monaghan-Ballybay road, a Garda source has confirmed. The Citroen C3 in which the ...

By Cianna McNally Wi-Fi is on its way to Ballybay and Clones after members of Ballybay-Clones Municipal District approved funding of €20,000 for it this week. A Wi-Fi point will be located on Ballybay’s Main Street centred in the library and will stretch as far as the pedestrian crossing while Clones will have three points – in the old library building on the Diamond, in Clones Branch Library and on Fermanagh Street. This service, which is being delivered through the I.T section of Monaghan County Council, is ...

A former Fine Gael TD was fined €750, and allowed six months to pay, at a special sitting of the District Court in Monaghan on Tuesday last when he was convicted for an assault at his family-owned licensed premises in Ballybay last year. Sean Conlan, 42, of Main Street, Ballybay, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and causing harm to Enda Duffy of Annahia, Ballybay, at the premises on August 23. He also faced a charge for the alleged use of a broken pint glass during the incident in which it ...

By Cianna McNally “Yet again Ballybay has been left behind and totally forgotten about,” declared Councillor Seamus Coyle this week. Councillor Coyle’s comments came at the January meeting of Ballybay-Clones Municipal District in response to the news that Ballybay will not have a new fire station until 2020 at the earliest. Monaghan’s Acting Chief Fire Officer Sheila Broderick, who was present at the meeting on Monday, told councillors that a new fire station in Castleblayney had been given approval and would be prioritised ahead of Ballybay as it ...

Ballybay-based Garda Eve McCrystal was honoured at the Sportswoman of the Year awards in December for her cycling achievements with Katie-George Dunleavy at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. Eve served as pilot for visually impaired Katie-George and the duo won gold in the Road Time Trial, finishing 33 seconds ahead of Japan, and silver in the Road Race, contributing handsomely to the Irish tally of four gold, four silver and three bronze medals from the games. Their achievement was all the more impressive given that the pair only raced together for the ...

A former Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD was convicted at a special sitting of the District Court in Monaghan on Tuesday last on charges relating to an alleged assault at his family-owned pub last year. Seán Conlan (42) resigned from Fine Gael prior to the general election after expressing public criticism of the party leader, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and other senior party figures, over their failure to engage with local landowners in a campaign to prevent pylons and overhead cables on their farms in the cross-border interconnector electricity link-up, spearheaded by ...