Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

The new €3.5 million Carrickmacross Water Supply and Treatment Plant at Nafferty, which was officially opened this morning by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly T.D.

Michael Fisher Carrickmacross was stunned by the unexpected announcement a week ago that the Bose factory is to close in April with the loss of 140 jobs. Now a government Minister has been asked to intervene to establish if the decision by the US-based multinational can be reversed or deferred to give the state agencies an opportunity to seek a replacement business. The news came as a  shocking New Year blow for several mortgage holders, and family members,  dependent on a  weekly wage from the Bose plant. People like Pat McNally ...

Criticism of the expenditure made on the ‘flying pig’ art installation situated along the Castleblayney by-pass in Co Monaghan was voiced by Fine Gael councillor Hugh McElvaney at Monday’s resumed Budget Meeting of Monaghan Co Council in Carrickmacross. Dubbing the St Maeldóid’s pig sculpture “the sow on the brow”, Colr McElvaney said that he had seen the work on his way to the meeting, although it was “half-hid” in fairness to the engineering staff. The veteran FG public representative was critical of the expenditure of €100,000 on this project, which was funded ...

By Cianna McNally Public concern is growing at the continuing incidence of “creeper burglary car thefts,” as another spate of such robberies took place over the last week. In what appears to be a highly organised criminal enterprise, six relatively high value vehicles were taken from outside homes in the Clontibret, Castleblayney and Carrickmacross areas between last Friday and yesterday, Wednesday morning. As reported in last week’s Northern Standard, gardai are also investigating the thefts of four vehicles that occurred over the last month in the Cootehill and Ballybay areas. In what have been described ...

The Monaghan Association in Dublin will unveil a new plaque in memory of Inniskeen poet Patrick Kavanagh in Dublin on Saturday 1st November, 2014 at 3pm. The plaque will be unveiled at 51, Upper Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9, which was Patrick Kavanagh’s first Dublin address when he went there in 1939. The unveiling will be performed by the writer Brendan Lynch who is one of the remaining few who knew Kavanagh during his time in Dublin. Chairman of the Monaghan Association, Dublin, Peter J. McDonnell said they were delighted to sponsor the plaque ...

FURTHER poignant tributes were paid to the late Mr. Martin Crilly, the well known Carrickmacross solicitor who died earlier this month, and an expression of sympathy was extended to his family and friends, at the commencement of the Circuit Court in Carrickmacross on Tuesday. Mr. Crilly’s death took place at the Blackrock Clinic Dublin on Monday 6th October, and his passing came as a great shock to all who knew him. Martin, who was aged 62, had bravely ...

A cross-channel police hunt, extending for nearly three months, for a man described as ‘a dangerous sex offender’ ended yesterday (Wed) when the 45-years-old fugitive from Glasgow, who was arrested by gardai in Cavan, appeared in custody at Carrickmacross District Court. Lorcan Halton, who was last seen on January 9th and went on the run after failing to appear in court in Glasgow, was arrested earlier yesterday by the gardai in Cavan. He appeared in custody before Judge Sean MacBride at a ...

Carrick Emmets Ladies lend their support to the upcoming “Give Blood” clinic coming to Carrickmacross. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) are delighted to be supported by the GAA in their vital work and to use this as a partnership to advocate blood donation and recruit Blood Donors. In conjunction with the GAA, the IBTS are seeking 100 additional donations and are running the usual Blood Donor Clinic in the Phoenix Leisure Centre in Carrickmacross on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th March, 2014 from 5.00pm to 8.30pm each ...

Carrickmacross boxers had a good weekend at the Dublin October Festival of Boxing event at the Green Isle Hotel on the Naas Road. Glen Clarke got the weekend off to a positive start with his win over his Crumlin BC opponent. Glen took a while to get going in the 1st but when he did in the 2nd & 3rd any little doubt there might have been about the result was quashed by a well placed body shot form Glen just on the bell at the end of the 3rd round. Next ...

SOUTH Monaghan experienced a second road tragedy within a fortnight yesterday (Wed) when a young man was fatally injured in a two-vehicle collision outside Carrickmacross. The crash occurred at Drummond Otra, on the Dundalk side of the town. The Northern Ireland driver of one of the cars was fatally injured and two others who were in a second vehicle, were taken by ambulance to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Gardai withheld the name of the fatally injured victim, who was in his mid-twenties and understood to be from Co. Tyrone, ...