Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

By Michael Fisher Carrick: this one’s for you! Boxer Christina McMahon proudly displayed her WBC title belt to the crowd of several hundred who welcomed her home to the Main Street in Carrickmacross on Tuesday evening. It might be only the interim female world bantamweight title, but to everyone in Monaghan, she is the county’s new international boxing champion, rivalling the achievements of the Clones Cyclone. The full title remains one fight away, but that could be some time down the road. “I have to be world champion before I turn ...

Michael Fisher “Welcome home, champ!” said the posters in the shop windows. A crowd of around 500 welcomed home the victorious boxer Christina McMahon in Carrickmacross on Tuesday night.  Christina won the interim WBC female bantamweight world title on Saturday, defeating her Zambian opponent in Lusaka in a tough contest over ten rounds. So she is now one fight away from the full title. Christina was given a civic reception and was presented with gifts from Monaghan County Council, Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District and the Carrickmacross Festival Committee, which helped to ...

By Michael Fisher Monaghan Councillors especially Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District members have been snubbed by the Department of Jobs, according to the County Council Cathaoirleach, Councillor Padraig McNally (Fianna Fáil). He was addressing the April meeting of the District Council in Carrickmacross on Monday. He expressed his disappointment and frustration that he had not been invited to a regional jobs forum held at the Nuremore Hotel and attended by three government Ministers, including the Jobs Minister Richard Bruton T.D. and Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and local T.D., Heather Humphreys. Councillor ...

The large number of road traffic accidents, including fatalities, that have taken place on the N2 national primary route in Co Monaghan prompted the submission of a question by Sinn Féin’s Noel Keelan to the April meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Referring in particular to accidents that had occurred on the Ardee-Castleblayney stretch of the road, the South Monaghan public representative asked what discussions had taken place with the National Roads Authority (NRA) and the Council’s Roads Section in relation to the possibility of extending the 2+1 design solution or the ...

A discussion at a recent meeting of Monaghan Co Council about the threatened withdrawal of school bus services from a location in South Monaghan because of the poor condition of a local road led to correspondence from Bus Éireann coming before last week’s April meeting of the local authority. The letter, from Fiona Mulpeter, Chief Clerk with Bus Éireann’s School Transport section in Dundalk, said that no school transport service was withdrawn from the South Monaghan route in question. “We received notification from John Lennon, the Municipal District of Carrickmacross-Castleblayney, re repairs ...

LEGO enthusiast Paul Derrick used half a million bricks to construct the exhibition at Carrickmacross Civic Offices which is open until tomorrow (Friday). His display includes eight galleons and a model of an Irish medieval fort, something like the one in Kinsale. There are pieces connected with Star Wars. One of the items catching the attention of visitors during the week was the display illustrating the battle of Rorke’s Drift in the Anglo-Zulu war in January 1879. Paul lives in the Carrickmacross area and is a firefighter. To coincide with ...

A Toyota Avensis car belonging to local photographer Pat Byrne was badly damaged in Carrickmacross on Tuesday afternoon when a section of wall collapsed at Ivy Lane.  Another vehicle parked nearby also suffered damage. Emergency services were called to the scene but no-one was injured as both cars were unoccupied. It’s thought the high winds brought down a large tree in a garden, and part of the stone wall was breached. The road was closed and Monaghan County Council engineers brought in tree surgeons to remove two more trees because ...

By PATSY McARDLE MONAGHAN-produced Celtic Pure,   bottlers of the finest natural spring water in the country, were named last week as winners of the Manufacturer of the Year category, sponsored by competitive energy provider, Energia, at the prestigious Small Firms Association Awards 2015. The Celtic Pure plant is located at Corcreagh, Raferagh, near Carrickmacross in South Monaghan. The company is operated by Padraig and Pauline McEneaney since 2000, and manufactures all its own bottles, thus eliminating the risk of contamination associated with packaging transportation. It was previously nominated for an award in 2013. Mr. ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THE official opening of the new €3.5 million Carrickmacross Water Treatment Plant on a hill at Nafferty, to the north of the town on Thursday last was hailed as a “fantastic occasion” by Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Alan Kelly TD, who subsequently unveiled a plaque to mark the event. The Minister, who had earlier passed a group of about 70 or 80 anti-water charges protesters at the nearby Ballybay Road roundabout on his way into the plant (see story in Carrickmacross News), repeatedly sought to ...

Union members at the Bose factory in Carrickmacross, due to be closed at the end of May with the loss of 140 jobs, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of redundancy proposals negotiated by their representatives. SIPTU Industrial Organiser Jim Mc Veigh welcomed the result of the ballot saying: “We negotiated what we considered to be a fair and reasonable redundancy package. We recommended the proposals to our members and they have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the package. SIPTU will be continuing discussions with the company, the government and the IDA, ...