Articles in the Cootehill Category

• Arva branch also included in restructuring plans Ulster Bank announced on Thursday last that it plans to close its branches in Carrickmacross and Cootehill by the end of September. The Ulster Bank in Arva, Co Cavan is also one of 22 branches listed for closure in a major restructuring of business that is expected to result in 220 redundancies. The news has prompted calls from a number of political representatives in the Cavan/Monaghan area for a rethink of the closure plans (see below). The redundancy plan will be voluntary-led, staff were informed, and ...

Michael Fisher St Salvator’s Church on the edge of Glaslough village became the centre of international interest for several days in 2002. It was where ex-Beatle Paul McCartney married Heather Mills, although the couple later went their separate ways. The church is connected with the Leslie family. It was founded 350 years ago by the Bishop of Clogher John Leslie to replace an earlier 5th century parish church at Donagh old graveyard. So it was very appropriate that the present Bishop of Clogher Right Reverend John McDowell presided at a special ...

Cootehill ‘Comp’ schoolmates reunite 44 years on!’ CREW of 72! – Members of the St Aidan’s Comprehensive School 1967-1972 Leaving Cert Class are pictured at the school’s recent 50th anniversary celebrations. (Front L-R) Georgina Chambers, Mary Carolan, Bernard Igoe and Malachy Magee; (Back L-R) Fiachra Ó Mordha, Michael Fitzpatrick, Rose McDonald, Leonard Corrigan, Audrey Dowd, Myrkel Carleton and Michael McCabe.

Some of the members of the Breffini / Oriel Friesian Club are pictured making the presentation of a cheque for €1,400 to the Holy Family School, Cootehill, which is proceeds of the recent table quiz that they held at Cavan Rugby Club. The group made the presentation at the school last week. Included in the photo are some of the pupils with Isobel Lorde, Rachel Moynagh, Principal and Breffini Oriel Friesian Club members, Rachel Corley, Sinead Prunty, Clifford Poyntz, treasurer, Edwin Bennett, chairman, Mary Rafferty, secretary and Mary Gaynor, PRO. ...

By Cianna McNally The daughter of a Clones woman living in Australia has qualified for the Paralympics in Rio. Sarah Walsh, daughter of Patricia, neé Connolly from Clones and Tom, who is originally from Waterford, is a 17-year-old T/F44 athlete below knee amputee who competes in 100m and long jump. The Sydney-born teenager has been selected as a member of the Australian Paralympic team and will compete in Rio in the coming weeks. Sarah last featured in The Northern Standard last October as she competed in the T44 ...

Cootehill-based business EMCA have won the Manufacturing category, sponsored by Energia, in this year’s SFA National Small Business Awards. EMCA, a leading process control and automation company based in Cootehill in Co Cavan where it manufactures proprietary intelligent motor control panels for industrial sectors such as Water and Waste Water Renewable Energy, Engineering and Construction. With a team of forty five EMCA operates from a 6,000 sq. ft. facility offering a turnkey solution where clients can avail of full electrical installation, maintenance and system support. The control room in Irish Water ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie DELIGHT was expressed this week by everyone involved with the Holy Family School in Cootehill at the news that funding has finally been approved for its long-sought new building, on which work is expected to commence next year. Elected representatives including Arts Minister Heather Humphreys and fellow TD Sean Conlan, Cavan-based Senator Kathryn Reilly and local Bailieboro-Cootehill area county councillor Carmel Brady have also given a warm welcome to the announcement, which is being viewed by all concerned as breakthrough after 15 years of campaigning. The Holy Family School is ...

The very worthy motion moved by Seamus Coyle at Monday’s Annual Meeting of Monaghan Co Council, seeking the restoration of hours cut from the home help service by the current Government since taking office, casts damning light on one of the most indefensible, and nonsensical, of the many strictures imposed on Irish health provision in the names of rectitude and reform. The incremental curtailment of the availability of home care support for the sick and elderly has been well illuminated by our local and national political representatives before – sufficiently so, ...

A strong case was made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for urgent measures to address the serious flooding problems that occur on the Ballybay-Cootehill or R190 road. Fianna Fáil councillor Seamus Coyle had a proposal adopted requesting the Council to seek an urgent meeting with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe TD to have specific grant funding allocated for flood alleviation works to this particular stretch of the Dundalk-Cavan route “as this is a major link route across the region”. Colr Coyle highlighted the great inconvenience and ...

Last week Ian Harman, with an address at Carrickallen, Mountain Lodge, Cootehill was sentenced to eight years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court. The fifty year old defendant pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Michael Treanor at Cavan General Hospital on June 27th, 2011. The court heard that the defendant used a belt and pillow to kill Mr. Treanor, aged 82, who suffered from dementia. Mr. Harman had been voluntarily admitted to the hospital’s Psychiatric Unit after he attempted suicide.