Articles in the BallyBay Category

PETER HUGHES “This is the type of client I am. I love a challenge and what motivates me is to catch people out at their dirty tricks, and that is what I have achieved. “The publicity they gave me will be damning – but I sincerely hope people will believe my side of the story and RTE will be redfaced about the whole thing.” This was part of the response given by Monaghan Co Councillor Hugh McElvaney to the storm of predominantly adverse media attention he has been subjected to in the aftermath ...

A former Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael Dáil Deputy was remanded on his own bail of €100 to a further sitting of the District Court at Carrickmacross on January 27 next when he appeared on two charges yesterday, Wednesday relating to an incident at his family-owned licensed premises in Ballybay on August 23 last. Sean Conlan of Main Street, Ballybay, was present in the body of the court when the charges were read out by Garda Inspector Kevin Gavigan, Carrickmacross, who was prosecuting. Deputy Conlan last week announced his resignation from FG over the ...

PETER HUGHES A rallying cry of “Monaghan beds for Monaghan patients” issued from Monday’s meeting of the Clones-Ballybay Municipal District when a motion tabled by Fianna Fáil councillor Seamus Coyle highlighted the chronic shortage of respite facilities in the county. Colr Coyle sought the intervention of Health Minister Leo Varadkar to address a situation in which he claimed that only nine respite beds were available to cater for the need arising in the entirety of Co Monaghan and a large part of neighbouring Co Cavan. His motion, which won the unanimous support of ...

Michael Fisher Students from Ballybay Community College have helped to launch a nationwide programme for schools to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916. The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys T.D., visited the College yesterday. She expressed the hope everyone would get involved in celebrating this important moment in Ireland’s history. The County Monaghan town was chosen for the event to emphasise that the centenary celebrations should be less “Dublin-centric”, according to the Minister. Minister Humphreys joined the Editor of the Irish Independent, Fionnán Sheahan, to ...

BY VERONICA CORR The Northern Standard has learned that €1.49 million is to be invested in a wind turbine project in the Ballybay area. Work will begin at the Old Mill in November and is envisaged to run until May. This wind turbine plant, capable of generating 17MW of electricity for Storm Energy, will be constructed to meet the requirements of the largest value renewable energy contract of three awarded to Omexom UK and ROI. The civil contractors have been named as Roscommon-based firm the NRS Group. The other onshore winds farms ...

Ballybay is to retain its Dept of Social Protection office “for the foreseeable future”, Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan has stated. Indications that the office and the jobs attached to it would be transferred to Monaghan Town have generated a great deal of debate and controversy among both national and local political representatives in recent times, with the issue again emerging as a bone of contention at the most recent meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Deputy Conlan told The Northern Standard that the office, which formally discharged a function of ...

By PATSY McARDLE and MICHAEL McDONNELL FARMERS throughout Co Monaghan are on ‘red alert’ this week — after cattle rustlers targeted livestock herds at different premises near the Border in recent days. Farm organisations and rural community group leaders joined gardai yesterday in urging a major step-up in security after a number of cattle were stolen from farms in the Ballybay and Stranooden areas in the early hours of Saturday morning and from the Corduff area at sometime on Monday night/Tuesday morning. A total of 15 cattle, valued by their owners at in ...

By Cianna McNally A three day festival, inspired by the world famous German event Oktoberfest, is scheduled to take place in Ballybay next month. Oktoberfeast, which has been organised by the enterprising members of Ballybay Chamber of Commerce promises fun for all the family over three days. Celebrating Ballybay’s links to German town Osterhofen Gergweis in Bavaria it will begin on Friday, 9th October and conclude on Sunday, 11th. Speaking at the launch of the festival in Ballybay Wetlands Centre on Monday evening, Chamber secretary Paul McPhillips explained that while the festival didn’t officially ...

Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan has denied allegations of assault arising from an incident in his family public house in Ballybay on Sunday week last. Deputy Conlan was arrested by Gardaí and interviewed in relation to the incident when he voluntarily presented himself at Castleblayney Garda Station on Tuesday morning. The TD was later released without charge. Gardaí say that a file on the matter is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. In a statement released by the Fine Gael Press Office and circulated to media outlets on ...

EirGrid has issued a statement to The Northern Standard this week dissociating themselves from behaviour that was described as “suspicious” at last week’s meeting of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District. The statement, from EirGrid communications specialist David Martin, is as follows: “In your article “Call for EirGrid to be more upfront”, published last week, you reported a claim made by councillor Eugene Bannigan that an unnamed EirGrid representative had been “sneaking around” the Lough Egish area in a “suspicious vehicle”. “I can confirm that there were no EirGrid staff in or near Lough Egish ...