Articles in the BallyBay Category

A high level of interest is already being anticipated in the 8th Annual Novena in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes taking place at Cuan Mhuire, Ballybay from Friday, August 7 to Saturday, August 15 next. The event has become firmly established as a source of spiritual solace and spiritual renewal for many people from all walks of life. Priests from all over Ireland will participate in this year’s event. One of the anticipated highlights is the talk on forgiveness to be delivered by guest speaker Con Diver on Sunday, August 9. On Monday, ...

The Ballybay flag was flying high on German soil over the weekend of 12th – 14th June, as an official delegation, made up of the then Cathaoirleach of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District, Councillor Ciara McPhillips and Councillor Cathy Bennett, accompanied by Municipal District Co-ordinator, Kevin McNally visited Gergweis and Osterhofen in Bavaria, Germany. This official visit coincided with the private trips of former Ballybay town councillors, Martin McAvinney and Bríege Rutledge and her husband John to the area. The people of Ballybay have enjoyed a rich friendship with the people of Gergweis, ...

The people from Ballybay and surrounding areas donated so willingly and generously to make our Daffodil Day such a success and raise €7171 towards helping the people in our area to get through Cancer. We couldn’t do it without you. We have a brilliant team of willing and loyal volunteers who have been helping out over the years, and this year we sent out an appeal for extra Volunteers and were delighted to get them to help our exsisting team out on the day. The Cake Sale and Coffee ...

Jane Duffy, First Year student at Ballybay Community College who won the GloHealth All Ireland Schools Cross Country Championships Minor Girls Race last Saturday, 7th March.

A strong case was made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for urgent measures to address the serious flooding problems that occur on the Ballybay-Cootehill or R190 road. Fianna Fáil councillor Seamus Coyle had a proposal adopted requesting the Council to seek an urgent meeting with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe TD to have specific grant funding allocated for flood alleviation works to this particular stretch of the Dundalk-Cavan route “as this is a major link route across the region”. Colr Coyle highlighted the great inconvenience and ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie GARDAI have confirmed that three high-value jeeps were stolen from one house a few miles from Ballybay in the early hours of yesterday (Wednesday) morning, and that one of these vehicles was later found burned out about a quarter of a mile away following a road accident. Two Toyota Hilux pickup jeeps and a Kia SUV were taken from the house, on a minor road between Ballybay and Rockcorry, about three or four miles outside Ballybay after the keys of the vehicles were stolen from the residence. The incident happened ...

Plans for a new research and development initiative based in Ballybay that could provide valuable start-up opportunities for small industry in the food sector were outlined at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. John McEntegart, head of the Monaghan LEO or Local Enterprise Office, outlined proposals to establish a “food kitchen” research facility at the Ballybay Business Centre which would provide those with ideas for the generation of new food enterprises with the environment in which to develop their product. Mr McEntegart requested the Municipal District to consider providing €5,000 funding ...

By Colm Shalvey Donaghmoyne and Corduff will contest this Sunday’s Monaghan Electrical Intermediate Football League Final, while Clontibret and Scotstown will battle it out for the right to play Castleblayney in the County Monaghan Group of Credit Unions Senior Football League decider. Corduff held off a late charge from Clones last Sunday to qualify for this Sunday’s IFL Final, where they will play Donaghmoyne, who edged out Ulster Club IFC finalists Inniskeen in their league semi-final 11 days ago. Corduff, who lost to Inniskeen in the championship semi-finals, have now gone a ...

Work is set to start this week on the Threemilehouse flood alleviation scheme after members of Ballybay-Clones Muncipal District signed the contract at a meeting on Monday. The contract, which is worth €112,000, has been awarded to Rockcorry based contractor Samuel Wilkin. Speaking during the meeting, Fine Gael councillor Hugh McElvaney stated that the village had experienced flooding last Thursday due to heavy rainfall and the issue needed to be dealt with urgently. “Residents in Threemilehouse are pulling the hair out of their heads following heavy rain last week. Promises are promises and action is ...