Articles in the Castleblayney Category

By Veronica Johnston Rita Shah, Joint Managing Director of Shabra Plastics Packaging and Recycling, has been  appointed to the Board of Enterprise Ireland. The announcment was made by Batt O’Keeffe, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation  on Thursday last, who was clearly impressed when he officially opened a new €3.5 million bottle sorting facility at the Shabra Plant in Castleblayney. It is envisaged that 35 jobs will be created at the over the next three years at what is the first post-consumer plastic bottle sorting plant in Ireland. The new plant has the capacity ...

RESIDENTS in the Co. Monaghan border town of Castleblayney were delighted last weekend with news of the success of the life-saving surgery last March on eleven-years-old Ciaran Finn-Lynch, a grandson of legendary local Irish showband leader, the late Maurice Lynch. The top surgical team arranged for a press briefing at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, prior to Ciaran’s discharge after the world’s first successful trachea transplant, with an implanted organ miraculously developed from the young boy’s own ...

What a day that was! Record attendance, record entries, both car parks full to overflowing, fantastic displays and good weather. There was an estimated 6,500 visitors this year. The 55th Castleblayney Show could be said to be the best in the history of the show. The show was officially opened by Big Tom and Eddie Downey, Deputy President of the IFA. There was a record number of Trade Stands that seemed to be doing very good business. The Blacksmithing Display was very well attended as were all the other displays. The standard of ...

AN article in the Evening Herald on Monday last in which there was criticism of the outcome of the recent Muckno Mania Festival and the successful effort by Muckno Mania Festival to win a place, for the second time, in the Guinness Book of World Records, caused considerable anger and annoyance in the area and has led to public protests over the article to the newspaper concerned and a complaint to the Press Council of Ireland. The Mayor of Castleblayney, Cllr David Funcheon, along with the President of Castleblayney Chamber ...

THE organisers of this year’s Muckno Mania Festival have announced details of an increase in the involvement of street performers at their forthcoming 2010 event which is expected to attract huge crowds to the Mid-Monaghan town. The Muckno Mania Festival prides itself in the promotion and awareness of the Arts and the Festival Programme deliberately combines popular fare with serious artistic content whereby more and more people experience the arts. New performing artists from Ireland and the UK will feature on the programme mainly on Friday and Sunday which has been possible ...