Articles in the Clones News Category

By Veronica Corr Monaghan County Council plans to convert two of the county’s landmark buildings into accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, namely, Ballybay Civic Centre and the former Ulster Bank building in Clones, a meeting of Ballybay/ Clones Municipal District (MD) was told on Monday. Mr. Nial O’Connor, Senior Executive Officer, Housing Section, Monaghan County Council delivered an update to public representatives and officials in attendance of the meeting in Ballybay, which forms part of the plan. Both buildings will form part of the Council’s response to the Local Government Management ...

Scenes of great poignancy surrounded the funerals in Clones and Dublin on Thursday last of the teenagers killed in a single vehicle road traffic accident on the N54 at Legnakelly the previous Monday. The funerals of 17-year-old Kiea McCann and 16-year-old Dlava Mohamed saw guards of honour provided by friends and Largy College classmates of the girls, who were described as “soul friends”. A hearse carrying Dlava’s remains left Clones on Thursday morning and travelled to Clonskeagh Mosque in Dublin, where her funeral service was held. When it arrived, her ...

More resources were urgently needed for the Family Resource Centre in Clones to cater for the needs of the towns rising population of migrants, Sinn Féin local public representative Pat Treanor told Monday’s meeting of the Ballybay- Clones Municipal District. Councillor Treanor won support for a motion that the MD write to Tusla, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’- Gorman TD and all Oireachtas members for Cavan/Monaghan seeking their support and intervention. The motion expressed appreciation for “the valuable work being done by the Clones Family ...

The Gardaí have launched an information appeal following a fatal road traffic accident in the Clones area on Saturday evening last, April 8. A female pedestrian in her 70s was struck by a vehicle at around 10.45 pm on the Newbliss Road at Clonavilla. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Gardaí in Monaghan have appealed for any witnesses to the accident to come forward. They have asked motorists who were travelling on the R183 Newbliss Road between 10-11 pm on Saturday and who may have camera or dash-cam footage ...

By Veronica Corr “Every man, woman and child has a right to a roof over their heads. If anyone in the Municipal District is put out on the street please get in touch with the Municipal District, who will bring it to the attention of Monaghan County Council,” Cathaoirleach Hugh McElvaney said at the outset of the recent monthly meeting of Ballybay/Clones Municipal District. The Independent elected representative let his disgust at the Government’s lifting of the Eviction Ban at the end of March be known, describing the move as ...

A plaque on the wall of the former Courthouse building in Clones recalls how novelist James Joyce would frequent such venues around Dublin early in the 20th century to listen to hearings and prospect for nuggets of character and plot. Now a community space, the old Clones Courthouse resounded on December 28 to recollections of a different sort of human drama as memories of the bomb which exploded in the town 50 years previously were shared, some given utterance for the first time. The characters in this story were ordinary ...

Michael Fisher The late Nika McGuigan was posthumously honoured in July with the lead actress (Film) award at the Irish Film and Television Academy film and drama awards for her final performance in the film Wildfire. Covid restrictions meant that the ceremony had to be held online. So when the film was being given its première showing in Clones on Sunday, a very poignant and brief ceremony took place before the outdoor screening. Nika’s parents Barry and Sandra McGuigan returned to their native town for the event organised by Clones ...

Michael Fisher Monaghan and Ireland mourned the loss during the past week of one of its best known and admired citizens, the feminist and women’s rights campaigner, Mamo McDonald. Mamo, who was born in Co. Galway but spent most of her 91 years bringing up her family in Clones and then moved to Drumully, Smithborough, was widely respected as a former President of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association. She was honoured with a People of the Year award in 1999 for her services to Irish women and older people. Mrs McDonald ...

Communnity Centres could facilitate remote working Michael Fisher Two centres in the Ballybay and Clones areas are among over fifty sites throughout the country that have been connected to the world wide web this month under a National Broadband Plan initiative designed to connect local communities. As reported elsewehere, the two centres now providing public access to the world wide web are at the Wetlands building in Ballybay and at the hall at Connons, in the Drummully salient a few kilomteres from Clones. In a presentation to the September meeting of Ballybay ...

The people of Clones lined the streets of their town on Saturday to bid final farewell to a fondly regarded literary legend who had made his home amongst them. The funeral of playwright and novelist Eugene McCabe of Drumard, who passed away on Thursday last at the age of 90, was confined to close family and friends because of prevailing Covid- 19 restrictions. But Clones people took the opportunity to say their goodbyes as the cortege made its way through The Diamond and Fermanagh Street on its journey to the Sacred ...