Articles in the Contibret Category

CONROY Gold and Natural Resources, the company seeking to recover up to 15 million ounces of gold along a 30-mile stretch in Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh, is seeking to raise substantial funding for a pilot mine it intends to initiate in the Clontibret area. Company chairperson Richard Conroy said the first mine would be in Clontibret, for which it was hoping to raise €60 million to fund the first 20% of that area. He stated that the Clontibret mine could yield up to 600,000 ounces, with the objective ...

“This is an example of Co Monaghan operating on a national scale for the good of this country and the island as a whole,” stated Acting Co Manager David Fallon at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council when stressing the strategic importance of the N2 Clontibret to the Border road scheme. Debate on the project, which is facing a body of organised opposition in the North Monaghan area in the form of the Don’t Bypass The Bypass campaign group, was initiated at the meeting – held to consider submissions ...

The Champagne flowed at National Lottery offices on Friday last, 9th November as the syndicate from Treanor Stone-Tec in Clontibret picked up a cheque for €226,567 – their prize for matching five numbers and one Lucky Star in the EuroMillions draw on Friday, 2nd November. The 22 member syndicate group includes company directors, production, and administration staff, ranging in age from 25 – 60 years old. As previously reported, they will share the win equally with each member taking home €10,298.50. The group has been playing EuroMillions together ...

By Cianna McNally Monaghan  girl Chloe McMenamin who reached the final of TV3 programme ‘Ireland’s Ultimate Debutante’ last week has said she is looking forward to the final being screened on Wednesday, 14th November. Speaking to the Northern Standard, 18-year-old Chloe, who hails from Clontibret and is daughter of Malachy and Caroline, described the filming process as daunting at first but added that she soon got used to it. Chloe, who is currently studying veterinary nursing in UCD, was up against two other contestants but impressed judges Roz ...

By Cianna McNally One of the members of a local syndicate that scooped a whopping €226,567 in the EuroMillions draw on Friday last, 2nd November has this week spoken of her delight at the win. Twenty-two employees in Treanor Stone-Tec in Clontibret will each benefit to the tune of over €10,000. The winning ticket which was an €18 Quick Pick with Plus was purchased on the day of the draw in Matthew’s Newsagents in Monaghan Shopping Centre. It matched five numbers plus one Lucky Star in the draw. ...

The O’Neill Pipe Band, Clontibret, celebrated their 40th anniversary in great style with a major international pipe band parade in Monaghan Town on Saturday last, 6th October.  The O’Neills were joined in the unique celebrations by 48 member of the New Hampshire Pipes and Drums band from the USA and the famed Tayuela De Mercer Pipe from Madrid, who took part in the Monaghan St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2006. Other participating bands included The Killyvargue Pipe Band, Scotshouse, The Bantry Pipe Band, Aughnacloy, The Lisnagrieve Pipe Band, The Aughnamullen Pipe Band, ...

Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan came under accentuated pressure this week to recant his opposition to the N2 Clontibret to the Border road scheme, with some members of his party grouping on Monaghan Co Council publicly differing with their Dáil colleague regarding his stance on the issue. Disappointment was expressed by Co Mayor Hugh McElvaney that Deputy Conlan had reiterated his antipathy to the road proposal – which is the subject of a vocal opposition campaign by members of the Don’t Bypass the Bypass grouping in North ...

Gardai are carrying out searches in the Clontibret area as part of an ongoing investigation into a robbery in the local post office that took place at about 10.30am on Tuesday morning. Two men carrying hammers had broken a security screen after entering Clontitbret Post Office, and they subsequently made off with a sum believed to be in the region of €5,000. The postmistress who was working in the office at the time received facial injuries in the incident, but it is understood that her injuries were not ...

A Clontibret lady scooped an impressive €36,000 in last Saturday’s Big Money Game on RTE television. Joan Leonard from Coolarta, on the Monaghan-Armagh Border, earned her passage onto the National Lottery’s summer TV gameshow thanks to a scratch card purchased for her by her daughter Marie, a key member of the staff of The Northern Standard’s sister company R & S Printers Ltd. Joan was watching the Olympic boxing events the previous week when her name was pulled out as a contestant – and received the good news ...

A Fianna Fáil motion of urgent business was passed at the May meeting of Monaghan Co Council calling on Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar and the National Roads Authority to act to ensure that the Clontibret to the Border N2 road project was moved to road selection/design stage as soon as possible. The motion stated that a decision on this matter was required to avoid the sterilisation of large areas of land in the North Monaghan area, and to ally the concerns of farmers and landowners along the route, ...