Articles in the Castleblayney Category

A salutary reminder of the exemplary standards pertaining in all dimensions of agricultural activity in Co Monaghan and the wider north-east was provided at the 67th Castleblayney Show on Bank Holiday Monday last. Castleblayney’s place at the forefront of the regional show circuit was reinforced by the hosting of two Irish Show Association All-Ireland finals and by the presence of ISA President Ray Brady and other members of the association’s national executive. Donegal man Luke Barrett claimed first prize in the All Ireland Crossbred Breeding Ewe Lamb Championship, while Sligo’s ...

Monaghan County Museum opened its doors at its new home in the Peace Campus on June 24th. Their new groundbreaking exhibition ‘Bordering Realities – Monaghan People and Stories’, which explores the reality of the borders in our lives whether they be of the mind or of the land. Through a fascinating mosaic of personal stories of people from the county, the exhibition challenges the visitors with the question ‘Do our borders define us or do we define our borders?’ One of the many stunning objects on display for the first ...

Minister for Rural and Community Development, local TD Heather Humphreys, has said the investment of almost €10.8 million for the Castleblayney Market Square Regeneration Project will finally ensure its delivery. Minister Humphreys said: “This is a hugely significant investment for Castleblayney – seeing a project through to fruition that has been talked about and worked on for many years. “I am glad to have worked very closely with Councillor Aidan Campbell on this project – and it really will be a gamechanger for Castleblayney. “This is all part of an ...

Diversified renewable energy group NRG Panel of Castleblayney has announced that it will create up to 125 new highly skilled jobs across the island of Ireland within the next three to five years. CEO Conor Foley said this week that the business is investing heavily to drive the next stage of its growth, including plans to double business within the next three years, supported by its investor, leading private equity firm Melior Equity Partners. Melior Equity Partners Fund II is backed by the European Investment Fund, the Irish Strategic Investment ...

Friday, November 10 last was assuredly “a day for the books” in Co Monaghan. Literally so in Castleblayney where Minister for Rural and Community Development and local TD Heather Humphreys cut the tape to inaugurate the town’s new library facility – having two days earlier performed the official opening of the new 15-classroom extension at ‘Blayney’s Our Lady’s Secondary School. Elsewhere in the county on Friday Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was also a busy man, doing the honours for the official openings of the new Primary Care Centres now ...

The future protection of Castleblayney’s Lough Muckno into the future must be the governing priority in any new development plans, a local group has stated. The Friends of Muckno organisation has delivered its assessment of the recent analysis conducted by consultants Fehily Timoney of the “Vision” plan presented to Monaghan Co Council in 2021 outlining options for the future use of Hope Castle and the surrounding Muckno estate. The group has welcomed aspects of the consultants’ assessment and set out their views in detail in the following statement: The Lough ...

Cavan/Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has accused Transport Minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan TD of “politically motivated discrimination against Co Monaghan” over the failure of major road improvement schemes on the N2 to secure adequate funding in order to progress. Deputy Carthy this week said that Minister Ryan has removed funding for projects that were prioritised in the National Development Plan and diverted it to projects that were not. “Only a political intervention from Minister Ryan’s coalition partners can ensure that these road projects are advanced,” he ...

Castleblayney College students Caoimhe Quinn and Hannah Quinn were prizewinners at the 2023 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition which took place in the RDS in Dublin last week. The students were highly commended in the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences category for their project “U’Ve Been Framed?” Students from Largy College, Clones, Castleblayney College, Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney, Coláiste Dún an Rí, Kingscourt, Loreto College, Cavan and Breifne College, Cavan were also participants in the competition. Shane O’Connor and Liam Carew, aged 19 and in sixth year in the ...

A three-vehicle road traffic accident on the N2 near Castleblayey on Thursday last October 27 claimed the lives of a well-known Ballybay horse breeder and his wife. Ronnie and Jean Hollinger from Creevagh House, Ballybay died when their vehicle was in collision with another car and a motor lorry. The couple were in their 60s. Mr Hollinger was well-known in sport horse breeding circles and ran the Creevagh House Stud, located near Ballybay, with his family. Mrs Hollinger was a trained general and psychiatric nurse. The couple shared a strong ...

A 16-year-old male was arrested by the Garda in Castleblayney on Wednesday evening last following an incident in South Armagh in which a PSNI vehicle was rammed by a stolen camper van during a high-speed chase. The PSNI deployed helicopters and a dog unit to attempt to intercept the vehicle, which was believed to be linked to a burglary carried out at a house in the Tandragee area earlier in the day, when the property was ransacked and jewellery and cash were taken. Two male suspects abandoned the vehicle in ...