Articles in the Carrickmacross Category

By Veronica Corr Market Square Shopping Centre was a hive of activity on Monday afternoon, as Carrickmacross Tidy Towns Committee unveiled Ireland’s first return/deposit reverse vending machine, having just returned victoriously from a ceremony in Dublin’s Helix Theatre where they took home the town’s eighth successive gold medal in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2019. Although it was an abysmal day weather-wise in the picturesque town, there was no raining on the committee’s parade and thankfully the launch was indoors. The machine is located inside the back doors of Market ...

CAROLINE’S CAFÉ, MONAGHAN DURING BLUES FESTIVAL SOSAD Carrickmacross will be holding ‘Look after your mental health — Play a musical instrument’ Fundraising and Awareness music events at Caroline’s Cafe on Glaslough Street from Friday 6th– Sunday 8th. The informal jams or sessions takes place from 2pm to 6pm on each of the three days, and musicians who may be interested in playing their part are asked to drop in or email the organisers (see below). ‘Misneach Éireann’ is the theme behind the initiative. Selfharm/ suicide is a difficult subject to talk ...

The Wolfe Tones being the highlight The crowd stayed local for the August Bank Holiday weekend. The Annual Farney Music Festival in Carrickmacross provided three nights of music, the Saturday night was the busiest night in the history of the festival with the Wolfe Tones stealing the show! There was not a bedroom to be got in Carrickmacross and surrounding areas last Saturday night! Mike Denver got things going on Friday night with a bit of country while Saturday night proved to be the highlight with the Wolfe Tones attracting a ...

Twins, Dr. Caoimhe and Dr. Niamh McCarville have the unusual distinction of both recently graduating as doctors after six years of study at Bristol and Keele Universities respectively. The twins were born and raised in Reading in the UK, but their parents Leo and Deirdre both hail from South Monaghan. Caoimhe and Niamh are very aware of their Monaghan connections and visit the county often to see their proud grandparents Leo and Eileen McCarville from Reilly’s Cross, Shercock Road, Carrickmacross, and Brendan and Rose McCaul from Magheracloone. Both doctors have ...

New Owner Says Design Team Will Start Next Week By Veronica Corr and Michael Fisher An unfinished housing estate that has been an eyesore in Carrickmacross for several years is to be developed in the months ahead. The site that lies between the Ardee Road and Riverside Road (opposite the Civic offices) has now been officially acquired by Belfast developer Stephen McMurrough of East Coast Estates. He says his design team will move into the site next week, four months after he had previously indicated that work would commence. In ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE “public scandal” over a ‘Group Home’ in Carrickmacross lying idle—and unused—some two years after it was completed to serve specific accommodations needs, has led to a call this week from South Monaghan Sinn Féin councillor Colm Carthy for immediate action to bring the premises into use, in accordance with an earlier assurance by the HSE that it would be in use by the end of the second quarter of 2019 Cllr. Carthy, who also raised the matter at a County Council meeting on Monday, said this ...

By Veronica Corr The inaugural meeting of Carrickmacross/Castleblayney Municipal District (MD) for the fiveyear term 2019-2024 took place on Monday afternoon in the Civic Offices. It was called to order by MD Co-ordinator Gareth McMahon. As usual, it was decided that the position of Cathaoirleach would be rotated around the parties, as follows: Sinn Féin (year one), Fine Gael (year two), Fianna Fáil (year three), and for the final two years, party names were drawn out of a hat, with Fine Gael (year four) and Fianna Fáíl taking the chair ...

Michael Fisher Antrim based developer has revealed plans to transform the unfinished housing development at Magheross in Carrickmacross, which has been an eyesore for many years, into 33 residential units for social housing. Stephen McMurrough told Councillors his professional team will start work on the site in three weeks’ time, following a health and safety audit and having arranged the necessary financial backing. It’s anticipated the project will be completed in the next twelve months, with the first block of seven town houses ready to be handed over in ...

Mrs Lucia O’Farrell, mother of the young Carrickmacross law student Shane O’Farrell who was fatally injured in a hit-andrun road traffic accident near his home in 2011, has declined an opportunity to make a presentation to Monaghan Co Council “in committee” outlining her family’s ongoing quest for justice. In an open letter to Monaghan Co Council which was supplied to the Northern Standard this week, Mrs O’Farrell is critical of the decision taken by majority vote at the January meeting of the Council to hold the presentation “in committee”, which ...

The family of Carrickmacross fitness instructor Seamus Bell, who died after being the victim of a one-punch assault in the town, have issued a statement saying they have been “left in turmoil” by the outcome of the hearing at Monaghan Circuit Court this week of the manslaughter case arising from the incident. The family have expressed disappointment with what they perceive as the leniency of the sentence handed down to 35- year-old Lithuanian man Vytautas Racys, with an address at 33 The Oak, Lough na Glack, Carrickmacross, who received a ...