Articles in the BallyBay Category

By Veronica Corr November 30th is the deadline by which all monies drawn down for flood alleviation works on the Ballybay/Clones Road (R162/R190) must be spent, a public meeting heard last Thursday evening. There was a large attendance at the Wetlands Centre, Ballybay, as locals proved very interested in what Monaghan County Council had planned for the road, which had been seriously affected by flooding in recent years. The meeting was organised following a proposal by Fine Gael Councillor Ciara McPhillips, seconded by party colleague Sean Gilliland and Independent Hughie McElvaney. ...

A suspicious device found in the rural hinterland of Ballybay on Thursday last was rendered safe by members of the Army Bomb Disposal Team. The device, which was described as viable, was discovered by a member of the public in the Drumlane area. Gardaí were called to the scene and the Army Bomb Disposal Team was alerted. The device was rendered safe after 40 minutes without the necessity for a controlled explosion. As a precaution a number of residences in the area were temporarily evacuated. Garda investigations into the incident are continuing, and ...

Adherence to the regulations governing hedge cutting was essential for road safety in Co Monaghan, Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Hugh McElvaney stated this week. Colr McElvaney highlighted the problems posed to traffic on the regional roads of the county in particular this week as the Co Council introduced new procedures for inspections and possible enforcement action for non-compliance to ensure the regulations in this regard were complied with by landowners (see below). The Independent representative distributed photographs illustrating the hazards faced by motorists on regional roads at Monday’s Council meeting, ...

A local TD appeared in court yesterday (Wednesday) on remand on bail on charges relating to an alleged assault at his family-owned pub last year. Former Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael deputy, Sean Conlan, who recently resigned from the party -because of what he termed as his dissatisfaction over the response to issues he raised in the constituency – had been remanded from a previous sitting of Carrickmacross District Court on his own bail of €100. The deputy appeared briefly in court again on two charges relating to the incident at the licensed premises ...

By Cianna McNally A spokesperson from the Department of Social Protection confirmed to The Northern Standard this week that the Department of Social Protection offices in Ballybay will relocate to Teach O’Cleircin, which is situated in Old Cross Square in Monaghan Town. A meeting in relation to this imminent relocation is set to take place next Monday morning. This meeting, which will take place in the Wetlands Centre in Ballybay, was organised following a call made by Councillor Seamus Coyle at the January meeting of Ballybay-Clones Municipal District last week. Speaking at ...

IN the wake of increasing community public anger in Ballybay over the decision last year to re-locate the Department of Social Protection offices in the mid-Monaghan town, to another premises in Monaghan town, local Independent Dáil deputy Sean Conlan revealed yesterday that he has called on the government’s Public Accounts Committee, and the Controller and Auditor General, to investigate, what he has termed as, “the bizarre re-location of the Department offices from Ballybay”. Deputy Conlan, who recently resigned from Fine Gael, stated he has made the call because of the huge ...

A 33-YEAR-OLD Ballybay man who was before Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court for driving with no insurance (while already disqualified from driving) on two occasions last year was given concurrent suspended five month prison sentences and 15-year driving bans in respect of each offence. Patrick McMahon (33) of Mullan, Ballybay, pleaded guilty to having no insurance at Killyneill, Tyholland on 23rd November last, and also to driving without insurance at Mullaghmonaghan on 20th May 2015. Garda Diarmuid Leane said that at 7.20pm on 23rd November he was operating a checkpoint at ...

PETER HUGHES Monaghan Co Council was requested on Monday by Colr Hugh McElvaney to expedite an inquiry it was conducting on foot of the contents of a recent RTE Investigates programme in which the veteran local public representative was prominently featured. The former Fine Gael and now Independent councillor was shown on the programme, broadcast on Monday December 7, telling an undercover journalist purporting to represent a wind farm company that he would assist the company to establish a project in Co Monaghan if he was paid £10,000 Sterling. Colr McElvaney maintains he ...

“A black day for Ballybay” was how Fianna Fáil member of Monaghan Co Council Seamus Coyle described to The Northern Standard on Tuesday confirmation he said he had received from Government Dept sources that the Dept of Social Protection office in Ballybay would be relocated to Monaghan Town in late March or early April. Colr Coyle has been to the vanguard of a concerted campaign waged at Co Council and Ballybay-Clones Municipal District level to retain the office facility and its 30+ jobs in the town since its transfer was first ...

PETER HUGHES Underfire public representative Hugh McElvaney has been requested to resign from the membership of Monaghan Co Council. The Council at a specially convened meeting yesterday, Wednesday afternoon, voted in favour of a Sinn Féin motion moved by Pat Treanor which requested the resignation of the veteran local politician because of “his clear breaches of the code of conduct binding the behaviour of councillors, as demonstrated by the contents of the RTE Investigates programme broadcast on Monday, December 7.” The programme had depicted the long-serving Co Councillor, now in his 42nd year ...