Articles in the Contibret Category

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 ...

  Exploration company Conroy Gold and Natural Resources announced this week that it had discovered a previously unknown zone of the mineralised precious metal during its operations in the Clontibret area of Co Monaghan. Further evidence of high-grade gold deposits discovered at its Clontibret drilling site was detailed in a statement by the company to the stock exchange. Conroy Gold said initial results of its in-fill drilling programme uncovered grades of just over 25 grammes per tonne of gold over 2.5 metres and 22.37 grammes per tonne of gold over 1 metre. Company Chairman ...

By Cianna McNally Public concern is growing at the continuing incidence of “creeper burglary car thefts,” as another spate of such robberies took place over the last week. In what appears to be a highly organised criminal enterprise, six relatively high value vehicles were taken from outside homes in the Clontibret, Castleblayney and Carrickmacross areas between last Friday and yesterday, Wednesday morning. As reported in last week’s Northern Standard, gardai are also investigating the thefts of four vehicles that occurred over the last month in the Cootehill and Ballybay areas. In what have been described ...

Last Sunday Newry’s landscape became a dreamscape for Clontibret O’Neills. The headquarters of Down football was the scene of one of Monaghan club football’s finest hours. by KEVIN CARNEY When the dust had settled on an hour’s football that will be forever etched into the annals of Monaghan GAA, Clontibret team-manager Dominic Corrigan couldn’t praise his troops enough. The former Fermanagh star delighted in explaining to the Northern Standard that the Monaghan standard bearers tore up the script. Pointedly, he also felt that the Down champions maybe went into the game too cocky: “I don’t think ...

Clontibret 1-09 Kilco 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM Clontibret overcame all the odds to book their place in the quarter-final of the Ulster Club Senior Football Championship when they struck for an injury time goal to snatch a late dramatic victory over Down champions Kilcoo in Pairc Esler, Newry, on Sunday afternoon last. They overcame in particular the handicap of having to play three quarters of the game with 14 players after Paul McGuigan was sent off in the 13th minute of the first half but they compensated for that numerical disadvantage with an ...

By Cianna McNally History was made last weekend when Clontibret girl Eleanor McQuaid became the first ever Monaghan Rose to be selected for Tralee in August. The 24-year-old was chosen to go through to the Dome at the Regional Finals of the Rose of Tralee which took place in the Portlaoise Heritage Hotel last weekend. Although there have been contestants hailing from the county in the international festival before they all represented Ulster, not Monaghan itself. The last Monaghan girl to get through to Tralee was the late ...

FLYING HIGH: Pictured is Clontibret lady Siobhan Hartigan in mid-flight during a skydive she completed last weekend to raise funds for the Peamount Hospital, Dublin  . Siobhan, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and has been resident in the hospital since 2000, jumped from 13,000ft last Sunday accompanied by two nieces and two nephews. “Everyone enjoyed the experience. We all had great supporters in attendance, clients from Peamount Hospital, and loads of family and friends. A big big thank you to each and every one for making the journey,” Siobhan told the ...

Newly crowned Monaghan Rose Eleanor McQuaid has vowed to represent the county to the best of her ability. The 24-year-old physiotherapist from Clontibret, who was selected for the role last Saturday night, 20th April in the Glencarn Hotel, Castleblayney, told the Northern Standard that she reacted with “shock, disbelief and elation” when her name was called out. “Given the beautiful and talented group of young women who entered this year’s competition, I found it very difficult to believe that I had won! I immediately got that sudden feeling where your heart ...

Implications for the future of the controversial N2 Clontibret to the Border road scheme were being examined this week following a Northern Ireland High Court ruling which will result in what has been described as “a substantial delay” to the development of the £330 million A5 dual carriageway project planned between Derry and Aughnacloy. A ruling delivered by Mr Justice Stephens found in favour of the Alternative A5 Alliance lobby group who had challenged through a judicial review the decision of North Minister for Roads Danny Kennedy to proceed ...