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Exploration drilling being carried out by Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc at its Clontibret gold deposit continues to yield positive results, the company stated this week. In its latest announcement, the company stated that “significant gold intersections have been discovered in two new drill holes completed under its current programme. Covering a length of 402.7m, ten and six …

Conroy Gold And Natural Resources Plc is to “materially increase” the drilling meterage at its gold deposit site in Clontibret, Co Monaghan following what the company has described as “recent positive drilling results”. Earlier this year, the company announced the discovery of additional extensive gold zones at Clontibret, reporting “wide mineralised intersectors and grades of up to 24 g/t gold”. In an update to shareholders, released to the Stock Exchange last week, the AIM-listed explorer said that it was increasing the meterage drilled by circa 70% to over 1,700 metres. ...

TRAGIC DEATH OF FINTAN TRAYNOR (20) RECALLED SIX YEARS ON GARDAI have made a fresh appeal to the public for information regarding the tragic death of a 20-year-old man in a ‘hit and run’ incident in Clontibret, as the sixth anniversary of the incident approaches. In the early hours of Sunday 26th June 2011, Fintan Traynor was walking home after a night out in Castleblayney when he was struck by a vehicle and fatally injured close to his home at Lemgare, Clontibret. In a posting on their Cavan Monaghan Garda Division ...

At the presentation of a cheque for €500 for the Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust at St James’s Hospital, are some of the commitee members of the Clontibret Social Club, who made the presentation from the proceeds of their gatherings during the past year. They are pictured making the presentation to Patrica Duffy, who is accepting the cheque on behalf of the Bone Marrow of Leukaemia Trust. In the photo are (L-R) Eilish Evans, Jennifer Duffy, Robert Kidney, Patrica Duffy, Ann McEneaney, Yvonne Creavan, Geraldine McSkeane and Robert Patterson. ©Rory ...

P J O’Hanlon, Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, and Peadar Morgan of the Clontibret Wildlife Centre are pictured with a group of Canadian visitors from Peterborough, Ontario who visited the Clontibret facility yesterday, Wednesday as part of their current tour of Ireland. The group, who were greeted on arrival by two pipers from the local O’Neill Pipe Band, expressed delight at the attractions of the wildlife centre and spoke in glowing terms of their time in Co Monaghan, where they based themselves at the Four Seasons Hotel. The Co Council Cathaoirleach welcomed ...

The long cherished dream of gold being profitably uncovered in the hills of Clontibret has been further field by an announcement this week from Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc. The gold exploration and development company, which is focused on Ireland and Finland, stated that four new gold zones had been intersected in a drilling programme on its Glenish gold target in Ireland. A statement from the company read: “The drilling results, together with previous channel sampling in the area which had proved 1.3 metres grading 9.4 ...

By Cianna McNally Tickets are selling well for a fundraising dance that is set to take place early next month in support of five-year-old twins with severe health challenges. Maeve and Francis McCabe from Avelreagh, Clontibret are the only children of Kevin and Kate and were born in July 2010. Francis was born with a very rare lung condition and is the only person in Ireland to suffer from it. He has to be 100% tube fed, needs oxygen and has a serious low blood sugar condition that can require immediate hospitalisation. ...

A 35-YEAR-OLD man who admitted trying to defraud the Department of Agriculture into paying him almost €32,000 in grants for a shed built on his lands — by submitting totally fabricated or altered invoices from contractors and suppliers, amounting to over €60,000 in total — was given a 10-month prison sentence at Monaghan District Court on Monday last. Michael McGinnity of 91 Fergort Road, Derrynoose, Keady, Co Armagh pleaded guilty to two charges of using a false instrument at the office of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at The ...

Clontibret 2-09 Magheracloone 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM REIGNING champions Clontibret made a winning start to the defence of their senior football championship title when they got over the challenge of Magheracloone by four points but it was a contest that was in the balance until the late stages. It was a game too that saw Conor McManus pick up an ankle injury after just ten minutes and while he did carry on until half time he was in some trouble and was substituted for the second half but did return to the action later. It ...