Articles in the Clones News Category

Monaghan Co Council has backed the ongoing campaign to have the decision by Ulster Bank to close its branches in Castleblayney and Clones reversed. Two motions of urgent business which highlighted the significant economic and social impact that the closures would visit upon the towns in question were adopted at Monday’s meeting of the local authority in Carrickmacross. A proposal in the names of Sinn Féin representatives Pat Treanor of Clones and Jackie Crowe of Castleblayney sought an urgent meeting with senior Ulster Bank management to demand a reversal of the decision ...

By Patsy McArdle and Cianna McNally The decision announced by Ulster Bank last Friday to close down twenty-four branches of the bank in the Republic and the North, including the branches in Castleblayney and Clones, next year, has sparked concern from trade leaders and civic representatives . The announcement was in line with a previous declaration that forty Ulster Bank branches would be closed by the end of 2016. Next year, twelve branches are to be shut in the Republic and ten in the North. According to the bank, services at Castleblayney and Clones ...

THE OWNER of a former Newbliss-based meat plant who is suing Larry Goodman’s ABP Food Group for defamation has confirmed to the Northern Standard that he intends to appeal a High Court decision requiring him to provide security for costs of €640,000 before the action can proceed any further. Martin McAdam claims his company, McAdam Food Products Ltd was severely damaged following the issuing of a press release by ABP, which stated that it had bought product from the Newbliss company that was found to contain horse DNA. This had happened during ...

Work is set to start this week on the Threemilehouse flood alleviation scheme after members of Ballybay-Clones Muncipal District signed the contract at a meeting on Monday. The contract, which is worth €112,000, has been awarded to Rockcorry based contractor Samuel Wilkin. Speaking during the meeting, Fine Gael councillor Hugh McElvaney stated that the village had experienced flooding last Thursday due to heavy rainfall and the issue needed to be dealt with urgently. “Residents in Threemilehouse are pulling the hair out of their heads following heavy rain last week. Promises are promises and action is ...

By Cianna McNally and Veronica Corr The flooding experienced throughout the county, as a result of last Thursday’s torrential rainfall was the subject of two motions of urgent business at Monday’s meetings of the Ballybay/Clones and Monaghan Municipal Districts. A motion calling on Monaghan Co Council to immediately seek special funding to allow for priority works to be carried out on the R190 Ballybay to Cootehill (Dundalk – Cavan) road to alleviate what Councillor Seamus Coyle described as regular flooding resulting in road  closures at Corrybrennan, Cumry, Keenoughbane and Lisnalong, received the full support of councillors at Monday’s meeting ...

An illegal abbatoir was discovered outside Clones in the Analore area on Saturday last. The discovery was made as part of a joint operation by the gardaí and the Department of Agriculture in relation to cattle thefts. Two people are helping gardai with their enquiries in relation to the discovery and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Brian Treanor, Chairperson of Co Monaghan Irish Farmers Association (IFA) told The Northern Standard: “All I know is that the Gardaí moved in on a premises and ...

Clones athlete Denise Toner fresh from her win in the Lenister Masters Indoor Championships traveled as part of a small Northern Ireland to compete in the English Masters Inter Area Challenge at the Lee Valley Indoor Arena in London on Sunday last. Denise was down to compete over 1500m and 3000m. In the 1500m after the initial quick start Denise was part of group of three athletes who broke away from the rest of the field. Denise sat in and was comfortable with the pace that was been cut out by ...

By Cianna McNally THE news that a Co Monaghan based contractor has been awarded the tender to carry out upgrading works to the Ulster Canal Stores and the Cara Street playground in Clones as part of the €1.6 million Clones Erne East Blackwater Project was warmly welcomed by members of Clones Town Council at a meeting last week. An informative presentation was made to councillors by Project Co-ordinator Sean O’Roideain. Mr O’Roideain explained that the work, which is due to begin next month, would see an upgrade of the Canal Stores to include an extension ...

A call was made this week for an “absentee” councillor in Clones to resign her seat. Raising the issue of Fianna Fáil councillor Anna Rooney’s non-attendance at meetings in recent months on Tuesday evening at a meeting of Clones Town Council Independent councillor Peter McAleer stated, “In relation to our absentee councillor it is wrong and we should be asking this lady to resign her seat.” Councillor McAleer also said that Councillor Rooney lived in Limerick and therefore he did not see how she was able to represent the ...

WELL-KNOWN Clones-based solicitor Paul Madden has been prohibited from practising and his accounts have been frozen pending an investigation into substantial monies that have been taken from his firm’s client accounts. The High Court was told last week by counsel for the Law Society that Mr Madden had admitted taking almost €1.4 million from clients’ accounts, stating that it was used to pay items including tax bills and office expenses. The court was also told that Mr Madden, of Paul Madden & Co Solicitors, Fitzpatrick Square, Clones, had ...