Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

The following statement was received from Senator Robbie Gallagher: Senator Robbie Gallagher has received confirmation that the Bothar Oirialla Group Home in Carrickmacross for persons with a disability will open in the latter half of this year. Senator Gallagher, who has been in constant contact with the HSE and Minister Anne Rabbitte, Minister of State for Disability, says that he has been advised by John Hayes, Chief Officer CH01, that: “CH01 Disability Services has received €600,000 in its 2021 funding budget allocation to progress additional residential service and this funding ...

Michael Fisher Objections have been lodged to a plan to build a human crematorium on a greenfield site near Broomfield. The proposed building which would be the first of its type in Co. Monaghan would be on a four acre site adjacent to an already approved pet crematorium at Aghnafarcan. That application was made in July last year by Olive Cunningham and granted permission with certain conditions on 12th November 2019 by Monaghan County Council. Last month a site notice was erected stating that the same applicant was seeking permission ...

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Students from Ballybay Community College and the Patrician High School in Carrickmacross have received national recognition for their entrepreneurial abilities. They were winners at the Student Enterprise Programme National Finals in Croke Park last week. Ballybay Community College students Ferne Duffy, Tess Mc- Fadden and Mary-Kate Black, working under the guidance of teacher Eimear Harvey, won in the Junior category for Sofatop, which its conceivers describe as “a flexible and stylish tray, enabling you to curl up on the sofa and enjoy your cup of tea, safe in the knowledge ...

By Veronica Corr Many people from Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan and the region in general will be disappointed to learn that Carrickmacross Street Festival, (which ironically came about as the result of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade being cancelled in 2001 during the Foot and Mouth outbreak), will not take place because of ongoing efforts to contain the COVID-19. In a statement this week, Chairperson David Maggs wrote that the festival committee were sincerely disappointed to have to announce their decision to cancel the June Bank Holiday event for 2020. The reasons ...

By Veronica Corr World Down Syndrome Day takes place on March 21st and to celebrate the wonderful children who have this condition, three organisations, Triona’s Tots, the Down Syndrome Centre and Team 21 Tots, came together to create a video which features some families from the North East, including local Annemarie Cassidy and her family, who are involved with the Down Syndrome Centre North East (DSCNE), based in Carrickmacross. Annemarie, her husband Paul and their four children Orlaith, Shane, Liam and Caolán (who celebrated his third birthday on Sunday) are featured ...

GROUND RENTS LAW CHANGED AFTER CAMPAIGN BY BUSINESSES DOCUMENTARY MAKER PRAISED FOR HIS WORK Michael Fisher Monaghan made its mark at Leinster House last Thursday when three local Oireachtas members from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin joined to pass legislation that will help resolve a problem over historic ground rents for some businesses in Carrickmacross and other parts of the country. Fianna Fáil Senator Robbie Gallagher said the passing of his Private Member’s Bill, entitled the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (Amendment) Bill 2017, will resolve a long-standing tenancy ...

By Veronica Corr Chinese baby formula manufacturer Newbaze, which will trade as IreLiffey Nutrition, celebrated its grand opening in style on Monday morning in the company of Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Ireland Mr. He Xiangdong. This €20 million investment in the plant (formerly Bose) in the IDA Industrial Estate, Carrickmacross will lead to the initial creation of thirty jobs, with a view to creating an additional thirty in time. It is hoped that ...

Peter Hughes Calls were made at last Friday’s inaugural meeting of the Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee for the advancement of the delivery of CCTV crime detection and deterrent systems for the towns of Castleblayney and Carrickmacross. Progress was also sought on the CCTV scheme for Monaghan Town, with members welcoming the fact that data protection issues which had delayed the delivery of CCTV projects nationally now seemed to have been resolved. Co-ordinator Cathal Flynn said that the provision of a CCTV scheme had been agreed by the former Castleblayney ...

By Veronica Corr On Tuesday afternoon, The Northern Standard received confirmation from Mr. John Treacy (one of the directors of Timber Toes Ltd. who own three hotels in the Treacy group), that Treacy’s Hotel Monaghan, with an address at Lossetts, Carrickmacross, would offer emergency accommodation to asylum seekers as per a verbal agreement with local businessman Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney, adding that there was no direct line to the Department of Justice. Separately, Mr. McEnaney was approached by this newspaper to do an interview on Monday, but the hospitality entrepreneur politely ...