Articles in the Castleblayney Category

By PATSY McARDLE A woman was killed yesterday afternoon (Wed) in a road traffic accident at Castleblayney. The woman, who was aged 59, was struck by a lorry while she was walking across an area at West Street in the town beside a pedestrian crossing, close to a junction with the main Dublin/Derry Road . The accident happened shortly before 1 p.m. and traffic was diverted from the town centre, pending a forensic examination of the scene. The victim, who was living in the area, was pronounced ...

By PATSY McARDLE PACE (Parents Acting for Change and Enjoyment,) joined with Blayney Blades, and the National Women’s Network to mark International Women’s Day 2013 at the Íontas Centre, Castleblayney, on Saturday last, in a major event which brought together over more than fifty participants, including women from Clones Community Forum and the Lithuanian Community in Monaghan. All these organisations are partners in the ongoing hugely successful PACE mentoring and facilitation programme. This year’s event took the form of a special conference and the speakers included ...

By PATSY McARDLE CASTLEBLAYNEY Shoe City Group is to receive a huge marketing boost in the coming weeks thanks to the wife of former British and Irish Lions’ rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll. O’Driscoll’s actress wife and author, Amy Huberman, 33, is making time for herself between looking after their new arrival, baby daughter Sadie—who arrived on the morning of Ireland’s recent Six Nations “trounce” by England—to present some special classy footwork with a difference! Amy, who hails from ...

By PATSY McARDLE A CASTLEBLAYNEY man has made legal history in the area, by succeeding in a High Court Judicial Review to quash an Order by a District Court judge in which a conviction was imposed, when he appeared as a witness in a Public Order prosecution! . The Judicial Review ruling was issued last week by the High Court Registrar Angela Denning, in the case in which the landmark application was brought by John Burns, senior, of Crinkill, Doohamlet, against a ruling by District Court ...

MAYOR of Castleblayney Colr Aidan Campbell, who was joined by the Mayor of Co Monaghan, Colr Hugh McElvaney and members and officials of Monaghan Co Council and Castleblayney Town Council as well as local Church representatives extended a warm welcome to the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, at a civic reception in Castleblayney on Tuesday. The reception was hosted by Monaghan Co Council and Castleblayney Town Council. In his address, Mayor Campbell said that in an historic week when His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI retired from Office, the ...

By PATSY McARDLE A MONAGHAN Fianna Fail county councillor who is Chairman of the local development company, Monaghan Integrated Development, which is currently facing a downgrading alignment with the local authority, in conjunction with the demise of the existing local authority structures, has hit out strongly this week at the impending loss of the existing body and its replacement with only a one-seat membership on a new fifteen-member set-up. Cllr. Seamus Coyle claimed yesterday the proposed replacement of Monaghan Integrated Development, with its centre based in Castleblayney, ...

By Veronica Corr Lough Egish based food company Kozy Shack Europe Ltd is to close to with the loss of 27 jobs.  The company which produces high quality dairy-based dessert products has confirmed to The Northern Standard that it will cease production in the coming weeks.  In a statement Kozy Shack Ireland said: “Following an extensive review of the Kozy Shack operation in Ireland, Land O’Lakes has advised staff of its intention to close its Kozy Shack facility in Co. Monaghan (Kozy Shack Europe, Ltd). “The company is making this difficult decision as a result ...

AN ALARMING claim was made by a town councilor at a meeting of Castleblayney Town Council Joint Policing Committee on Monday night last that some of the public collections on town streets involve bogus collectors who use an invented charitable cause—and later split the proceeds! Cllr Brendan Hughes made the claim that it came to his knowledge that some collectors were known to have appeared on streets using the name of a charity that was ‘non-existent’!. The issue led to a considerable debate at the meeting with Garda ...

By PATSY McARDLE A STERN public warning was delivered at a meeting of Castleblayney Town Council Joint Policing Committee in the Glencarn Hotel on Monday night last, that people who bring cardboard containers with litter or household waste in bags and dump them beside Bring Banks, which are provided exclusively for clothing and glass, are now being monitored on a CCTV system, and offenders face minimal on-the-spot fines of €150. Nial O’Connor, an Environmental Awareness ...