Articles in the Clones News Category

Disappointment was voiced by the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday when they learned that Waterways Ireland had failed to meet the six-month deadline for the furnishing of additional information to Clones Town Council in respect of the planning application submitted to the town authority for the Ulster Canal regeneration project. Members were told that while Waterways Ireland had met the additional information requirement in respect of the planning application to Monaghan Co Council, the lapse of the six-month period in respect of the Clones Town portion of ...

A motion calling on Minister Phil Hogan to reverse his decision to cease funding to Clones Regeneration Partnership for the employment of the project co-ordinator to continue the ongoing development work by Clones Regeneration Partnership in preparation for the re-opening of the Ulster Canal received the full support of members of Clones Town Council at a meeting on Tuesday evening. Moving the motion Fianna Fáil councillor and member of Clones Regeneration Partnership Deirdre Kelly said that Gerry Darby had done wonderful work to raise the profile of the Ulster ...

By Cianna McNally Fine Gael councillor Peter Mulligan this week extended an invitation to U.S President Barack Obama to visit Clones when he travels to Co Fermanagh next summer for the G8 summit. Speaking at a meeting of Clones Town Council on Tuesday evening Councillor Mulligan referred to the fact that President Obama will be attending the summit in the Lough Erne Golf Resort in Enniskillen on 17th and 18th June next year and said that the council should invite him to visit Clones. “If you don’t ask you won’t get and ...

After being “bailed out” on two occasions, Clones Credit Union was last week finally allowed by regulators to hold an Annual General Meeting — for the first time in two years. Over 300 people attended the meeting on Monday, 5th November. According to national media reports, Clones Credit Union is one of around 30 credit unions that have now received emergency funds from a rescue scheme set up by the League of Credit Unions. It is also one of just three credit unions to have ...

Despite lengthy correspondence over the past year and a major campaign by Clones Regeneration Partnership and local TDs, to extend the tenure of  the Ulster Canal Project Officer beyond a two-and-a-half year December 2012 review date, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government issued a letter on 24th October informing the Chairman of its refusal to continue the funding for the local Canal Project Officer, Gerry Darby. Gerry has worked with Clones Regeneration Partnership over the last two-and-a-half-years and has raised the profile of the Ulster Canal ...

The Clones Cyclone, Barry McGuigan, has his colourful and high-achieving ring career featured in a new volume chronicling the exploits of Ireland’s greatest pugilists from the origins of the sport up until the Olympic heroes of the present day. The former World Featherweight Champion, now a respected pundit on the sport and a popular broadcasting personality, is just one of the many sporting greats featured in “Ringside with the Celtic Warriors – Tales of Ireland’s Boxing Legends”. Published by Currach Press and penned by well-known boxing writer and ...

CLONES 1-10 AGHABOG 1-03 BY COLM SHALVEY CLONES took full advantage of their second chance with a seven-point win over Aghabog in the Eurotech Junior Football League Final Replay at Scotstown last Sunday. Clones had been relieved to escape with a draw seven days earlier, but they upped their game to run out fairly comfortable winners against an Aghabog side who played two-thirds of the match with 14 men. Clones had suffered a string of semi-final and final defeats since being relegated to junior in 2006, including the ...

AGHABOG 1-09 CLONES 1-09 BY JOHN GRAHAM IT WAS billed as one that had the potential to be a close encounter and that is exactly how it worked out as there was nothing to separate the sides at the end of this absorbing Junior Football League Final that was played in a good spirit in Scotstown on Sunday afternoon last. Overall a draw was probably a fair enough result as both sides enjoyed periods of dominance and both had also squandered chances, but overall Aghabog will have slightly more reason to be disappointed as they looked ...

By Cianna McNally A summit of national and local politicians from both jurisdictions has probed possible solutions to dangerous driving and other forms of criminal activity generating concern among communities in the Clones Border area. Last Friday’s meeting in Clones ended with Oireachtas members and MLAs pledging to intensify the pressure on the relevant Government Departments north and south to ensure there was no safe haven on either side of the Border for those engaging in driving offences and burglaries. The meeting was attended by a number of Clones town councillors, ...