Articles in the Cootehill Category

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie It is intended that the livestock mart in Cootehill will reopen at some time in February or March of next year, a development which will be welcomed by the local farming community and would also be a boost to the economy of the town in general. The premises on Cootehill’s Station Road had for many years been a hive of activity, especially on Mondays and Wednesdays when the cattle and sheep marts were held respectively. But the large galvanised shed had become something of an eyesore ...

READY TO PARADE! – Pictured here are some of the students from the Erne Special School, Enniskillen and the Holy Family School, Cootehill as they get ready to take part in the International Fund For Ireland / Peace III Opening Parade for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2012 in Cavan. Also included in the photo are parents, teachers, and musicians Mickey McDonnell (back, left) and Meave Clancy (back, second from left) who participated in a 12-week music-for-fun workshops programme with the children in each school prior to the summer break.

A leading researcher at the University of Limerick whose family hails from Cootehill has recently been awarded significant funding towards vital research being carried in the development of electronic products, a key industry for promoting growth in the Irish economy. Dr Mark Halton, a native of Kill, Cootehill, has been awarded €346,600 in research funding by Enterprise Ireland, which will be used to help develop software to support rapid innovation for Irish-based semiconductor companies. These are the firms that develop power supplies for everyday commercial electronic ...

By Veronica Corr Dartrey Forest was the stunning backdrop to the inaugural Tails ‘n’ Trails Dryland Mushing National Championship Final which took place over last weekend, on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Paul Treanor from Glaslough, joined the internet based club three years ago and was the one to suggest bringing an event to Monaghan, Rockcorry to be precise. His efforts were rewarded as he won the canicross class. His interest in the sport was first ignited when he met Michael Rolston, who is a UK-based husky dog breeder. Paul later ...

There was shock and sadness in Cootehill on Sunday last at news of the death of 23-year-old Siobhan Kennefick-Ahearne, the mother of a six -year-old daughter and four-year-old twins, a boy and girl. Ms Kennefick-Ahearne, of 42 Lodge View, Cootehill, had become ill shortly after attending the ‘Planet Love’ music festival at Shane’s Castle, Co Antrim, which she had left with her boyfriend Noel after he completed his shift as a security guard at the event. They are believed to have left the festival, which was attended by ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie growing frustration with the ever increasing levels of illegal poaching of fish on local rivers and lakes came to a head at a special meeting organised last Thursday night in the Sail Inn, Shercock, where a new initiative to be known as ‘Lakewatch’ was launched in a bid to counteract the problem. The damage being done to angling tourism by illegal fishing practices on lakes — and the littering that went hand in hand with it — was highlighted by the large gathering of local enthusiasts that ...

michael@northern-standard.ie Cootehill’s “Pothole Terror”, Martin Hannigan was in the news again at the weekend when the Sunday World newspaper gave him a two-page spread — complete with pictures of him stripped down to Y-fronts, along with a shapely reporter clad only in thigh-high PVCs and polka-dot bikini. In putting her feature on Martin’s ongoing anti-pothole campaign together, the paper’s Geraldine Comiskey decided to throw caution to the wind — and it was a pretty chilly wind too, we’re told! — last Monday week and jump right in at the deep ...