Articles in the Emyvale Category

The work of an Emyvale sculptor has been included in a stone monument of Ireland that was unveiled in Donegal last weekend. Marc Kelly of Emyvale was asked to create a decorative stone for County Monaghan for inclusion in the Stones of Ireland, a fifteen-foot high stone map of Ireland that saw thirty-two individual counties made of stone, slotted together like a jigsaw puzzle. The monument, a year in the making, was unveiled in Glencolmcille last Saturday, 18th June. Each stonemason was asked to carve out their own county using ...

Órna Colton from Emyvale, Co Monaghan won the An Comhdhail World Irish Dancing Championship U-15 2016. Out of a competition of over 170 competitors she won 1st place in Killarney on the 22nd March. Órna Dances for Scoil Rince Ní Bhrogáin School who hold Classes in Edenmore Emyvale , Augher, Clogher and Coonian, under the tuition of Frances Brogan. Frances and the entire school are absolutely delighted with the win , many in the school taking home world medals in solos and team competitions. This adds to Órna’s two Ulster ...

This spectacular view of the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights was supplied to us by Gabriel Murphy, who took the picture in Emyvale on Sunday night last.  The celestial phenomenon, which occurs when electrically charged particles from the Sun enter the Earth’s atmosphere, was in its full splendour in the night sky over the weekend.  The hour when the aurora is often best seen has given rise to the description “magic midnight”.

A “next generation” system of traffic lights, which would automatically turn red if approaching motorists were driving in excess of the speed limit, has been advocated by Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Paudge Connolly as a possible solution for difficulties caused by speeding vehicles in the North Monaghan village of Emyvale. Colr Connolly made his proposal in the course of moving a motion at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District which related to a recent traffic accident at the Shaw’s Corner location on the N2 in Emyvale, where considerable ...

“It is an awful pity this has become a political issue,” Independent councillor Paudge Connolly declared at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council after his attempt to have an urgent business debate on a road safety issue in the village of Emyvale was voted down. Colr Connolly tabled the following motion of urgent business: “In view of the fact that safety measures were recently completed at Shaw’s Corner in Emyvale village which were designed to prevent traffic mounting the footpath, and the fact that on January 15 a car mounted the ...

A crowd of people turned out in Emyvale last Saturday evening in honour of and to congratulate local woman and Triple World Champion Louise McKenna. Louise won her impressive title at the World Single Lift Championships in Telford, England two weeks ago and she paraded her three trophies through the village last weekend. Louise, who is daughter of Antoinette and Martin McKenna, was one of 100 lifters (50 men and 50 women) from the Irish Drug Free Powerlifting Association who represented Ireland at the three-day event. Many other nationalities from across the world also took part. It ...

AN EMYVALE MAN who reached from a passing car to push a young teenager off his bicycle last summer was given sentences amounting to 10 months’ in prison when he appeared at Monaghan District Court on Monday last. Thomas McCarron, aged 22, of Killydreen, Emyvale pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm in relation to the incident, in which 13-year-old Conor McKenna sustained cuts and bruises after being deliberately knocked from his bicycle while training to take part in an Ulster championship cycling competition. In imposing a six-month prison term ...

By Cianna McNally “It really hasn’t sunk in yet that I am a Triple World Champion but when I see how it has made my family and friends feel and how proud they are then it makes me feel like the happiest girl on earth.” So said Emyvale woman Louise McKenna who won her impressive title at the World Single Lift Championships in Telford, England last weekend. Louise, who is daughter of Antoinette and Martin McKenna, was one of 100 lifters (50 men and 50 women) from the Irish Drug Free Powerlifting Association who represented Ireland ...

PETER HUGHES Irish language poet Caitríona ní Chléirchín from Emyvale, Co Monaghan has been announced as joint winner of the prestigious annual Michael Hartnett Poetry Award for 2015. Ms ní Chléirchín has been honoured for her second collection, An Bhrídeach Sí (which translates in English as The Fairy Bride). She shares the award with Marcus Mac Conghail (for his debut collection Ceol Baile). The presentation will take place on the opening night of Éigse Michael Hartnett in Newcastle West, Co Limerick on April 16. Caitríona, whose winning collection is dedicated to her late ...

It is with great regret that we report on the death of Kieran McAree, Stramore, Emyvale, which occurred on Wednesday, December 17th 2014. Kieran had been unwell for the previous two years and, with the assistance of his family, made a valiant effort to seek out a solution to his problem but unfortunately that was not to be and the entire north Monaghan community was shocked when the news spread of his disappearance in Enniskillen on that Wednesday morning. Kieran, who would have been 24 on Monday February 16th, was eldest ...