Articles in the Castleblayney Category

Gardaí in Castleblayney have launched a missing person investigation. They are appealing to the public to assist them in locating Paddy Kelly who was last seen on Monday night. Mr. Kelly (35), who is originally from Drumillard, Castleblayney, was more recently living in the Oram area. Paddy’s car is a Toyota Auris which is silver-blue in colour. It’s registration plate is 09 MN 6569. Anyone with information is asked to contact Castleblayney Gardaí on 042 9740668. His family are said to be very concerned for his safety.

By PATSY McARDLE SHOCKING corruption involving some individuals associated with the British American Tobacco company (BAT) across Europe was alleged in a BBC-1 ‘Panorama’ investigation on Monday night last, but many viewers in Co. Monaghan may not have realised the key ‘whistleblower’ figure in the probe was a young Castleblayney man, Paul Hopkins, who has served with distinction as a sergeant with the elite Irish Army Ranger wing, as well as in a private capacity in the security industry. which has brought him many operations worldwide. Mr. Hopkins, from The Crescent in ...

Sunday saw the running of the annual McMahons SuperValu 5k Race in Castleblayney, the morning showers gave way to a cold and blustery afternoon which didn’t deter a crowd of over 700 runners turning up for the start of the race. T he race which is fast becoming one of the best races in the North East was packed with a quality field with thirty five clubs been represented on the day as well as a host of other sporting groups. A fast time was always going to be required and Colin ...

Michael Fisher It was political drama at its best. But Monday night’s public meeting served only as the prelude for an even bigger drama that was to unfold the next day involving Fine Gael. Monaghan’s longest-serving and best-known county councillor Hugh McElvaney, speaking “with a heavy heart and a soul that is distraught”, told a packed public meeting he was leaving the party he had represented for 41 years. The audience at the Glencarn Hotel in Castleblayney had come to attend a discussion on the controversial North-South electricity interconnector. It was the ...

By PATSY McARDLE THERE was some disappointment expressed by community groups in the Castleblayney area last week after it emerged that a new €2 million investment scheme for the repair and conservation of protected structures announced by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ms Heather Humphreys, TD, would not result in a major facelift for two of the mid-Monaghan town’s best known landmarks, Blayney Market House and Hope Castle. Both local authority-owned buildings are in a continuing state of deterioration and local people are still hopeful that some positive action ...

By Cianna McNally Funding of €155,000 for the Castleblayney area was warmly welcomed at the October meeting of Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District, which took place this week. Monaghan Co Council made a successful application to the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government’s Rural Economic Development Zone (REDZ) pilot initiative and was granted €75,000. Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District councillors agreed on Monday to provide matching funding of €80,000 from the general Municipal fund which has been ringfenced for economic development. The money will benefit Castleblayney town and Lough Egish. Speaking on Monday, Fine Gael councillor ...

Vanda Maselskiene from Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan has won €29,000 on last Saturdays (3rd October 2015) National Lottery Winning Streak game show on RTE. Pictured here at the presentation of the winning cheques were from left to right: Marty Whelan, Winning Streak game show co-host; Vanda Maselskiene, the winning player; Eddie Banville, Head of Marketing at the National Lottery who made the presentation andSinead Kennedy, Winning Streak game show co-host; The winning ticket was bought from Castleblayney Post Office, Glencarn Shopping Centre, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. Pic: Mac Innes Photography.

Scotstown 1-14 Castleblayney 1-08 BY JOHN GRAHAM SCOTSTOWN are back in the final of the Monaghan Senior Football Championship for the third year in a row when they just had that extra dimension to their game in this fairly low-key and at times scrappy semi final that was played in good conditions in Clontibret on Saturday evening last. Scotstown had matters very much their own way in the first half as they got off to a flying start with Castleblayney not registering their first point until the 14th minute, by which stage Scotstown ...

THEM GOOD OLE BOYS! – Don McLean and his band delivered a great night’s early-70s nostalgia to a packed house at Castleblayney’s Glencarn Hotel on Monday night, where by all accounts there were some great moments as the American folk-rock singer-songwriter dished out the hits including American Pie and Vincent (Starry Starry Night). Picture: Jimmy Walsh (more pictures on page 23)

By PATSY McARDLE RESIDENTS in the Laurel Hill, Ashdown Mews, and Ashdown Court areas of Castleblayney along with those in the wider New Street and Monaghan Road areas have expressed concern over a feared health threat from the fall of asbestos from the roofing of a former cinema building in the area. It emerged this week that following correspondence on behalf of those living in the area an on-the-spot inspection was recently carried out by a senior official of Monaghan County Council and some clearance also carried out by local property maintenance ...