Articles in the Emyvale Category

By Cianna McNally A LOCAL artist has certainly left his mark on his former school as he created two sculptures that are on display outside of it. Marc Kelly from Emy, Emyvale was commissioned to design two sculptures at his former school, Corracrin National School. He created a four-foot colourful jigsaw cube entitled ‘Altogether’ as a physical expression of how the different elements of education fit together. At the front of the school stands ‘Our Time’, a seven-foot limestone hand-carved pillar with a metre diameter steel ring on top. The carvings ...

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches, And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows the horses and cattle….” This might well have been theme-song of the organisers when they brought their singing wheels to The National Senior Cycling Road Race Championships hosted in North Monaghan last weekend, 23rd–26th June. Nestled just a mile or two from the main Dublin-Derry road (N2) lies the parish of Tydavnet, the location of the twenty-five-kilometre circuit chosen for the event. The four parish villages are Ballinode, ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie A 47-year-old general labourer was charged with murder on Tuesday last, following the death of an elderly man from Carrickroe in north Monaghan at a psychiatric ward attached to Cavan General Hospital. Local people in the wider north Monaghan area were shocked and saddened at the death of Michael Treanor, aged 82, a farmer from Davagh, Carrickroe who had been cared for at the unit in Cavan for about four months. The Northern Standard understands that Mr Treanor, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, was to have been transferred ...

kevin carney Cycling enthusiasts in county Monaghan can expect a feast of action towards the end of this month when Emyvale Cycling Club hosts the Irish National Cycling Championships. The event takes place between June 23rd-June 26th around the roads of Emyvale, Tydavnet, Knockatallon, Scotstown and Ballinode and so far over 250 cyclists have been entered, including some of the sport’s luminaries. Run under the aegis of Cycling Ireland and with Town of Monaghan Co-Op stepping in as the main sponsor, the Championships were launched on Tuesday evening last at the Slieve Beagh ...

Some of the volunteers who helped organise and sell daffodils in Emyvale in aid of the Irish Cancer Society as part of the recent national daffodil day campaign, are pictured making the presentation of the cheque for €7,633.50. The group which was lead by Pauline Treanor, Marie Murphy and Nancy McCluskey, are presenting the cheque to Justin McDermott, community fundraiser for the Irish Cancer Society. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

By PATSY McARDLE THERE WERE poignant scenes at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Carrickroe yesterday (Tues) for the funeral of a native of the parish and member of a well known local family, 41-years-old Mr. Owen McKenna, a father of two, and tragic victim of the earthquake which struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch with disastrous consequences, on February 22nd last. The deceased’s remains were flown home last weekend for the concelebrated requiem mass and funeral in his native parish of ...

The north Monaghan man who was tragically killed in the earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand on Tuesday has been named as 40-year-old Owen McKenna, who was originally from Brackagh, Emyvale. Mr McKenna, who was a general nurse and worked as manager of the accident and emergency department at the city’s main hospital, had moved to New Zealand in 2002. He was married to local woman Sarah Lothian, and they had two young children, Grace, aged 7 and Tadhg (4) . According to reports, the Monaghan man’s car ...

A native of Emyvale in Co Monaghan was recently awarded an honorary MBE in recognition of her long and distinguished service in the field of nursing. Mrs Ann Readhead, born Ann McKenna and from Figullar in Emyvale, was presented with the insignia of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the British Minister for Public Health Anne Milton in the Department of Health in October. The honour recognises a 33-year career with the National Health Service in Britain and her contribution not alone to the nursing of the ...

Christmas morning arrived. The temperature was minus ten Degrees Centigrade. The ground was covered in snow with eight inches of ice on Emy Lake (verified by Keith Murphy). Last year we only had to contend with a minus 8 temperature and three inches of ice. Large numbers from all over North Monaghan had travelled on treacherous roads, at great personal risk, to attend the swim. The organising committee had to sort matters out quickly. They did so in style by replacing the Christmas Day Swim with a “Christmas Day Walk ...

michael@northern-standard.ie Workmen who had intended building a four-foot high concrete wall for the Co Council at a scenic riverside walkway in Emyvale found themselves between a rock and a hard place on Tuesday morning when they were confronted by irate local residents who insisted that it would destroy the view. A compromise was reached later in the evening following a meeting between a number of local people and the builders, which was also attended by independent county councillor Seamus Treanor and one of the council’s senior engineers, Mr Donal McElwain. It was ...