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Details of a €373 million programme of capital projects to be progressed by Monaghan Co Council in 2024 were outlined to Monday’s meeting of the local authority. Chief Executive Robert Burns stated that the 2024 programme represented an almost 20% increase in the value of the programme compared to 2023, reflecting the ambition of the Co Council to invest in the social and economic development of the county. The programme also reflected the need for development and the level of funding available. Mr Burns said the Co Council currently had ...

COLM SHALVEY The usual schedule of festive season fundraisers and charity events raised thousands of euro over Christmas and New Year. The long-established Christmas Day swims at Emy Lake and Creevy Lake were back to their traditional format, with big attendances making both successful fundraisers for local causes. Carrickmacross Emmets’ annual swim has raised a remarkable sum this year of more than €30,000 to support local man Shuan Connolly, with the money set to go towards adapting his home and helping him fight Multiple sclerosis (Ms). the Emy lake swim, ...

Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth has stated that Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has assured her that Cavan/Monaghan is a priority area for refuge accommodation for victims of domestic, sexual and gender- based violence and every effort would be made to ensure that the facility was put in place as soon as possible. Deputy Smyth told the Northern Standard that several interagency meetings had taken place since 2022 to explore how to progress the development of a refuge in the constituency. “Some steps have been taken through engagement with Monaghan ...

Seven road accident fatalities were recorded in Co Monaghan in 2023, the highest number for the past six years and reflective of a 19% increase in road deaths nationally in the year past. A total of 184 people died in 173 fatal collisions in 2023 compared to 155 deaths in 149 collisions in 2022. This represents an increase of 29 deaths compared to last year. The figures were published by the Road Safety Authority this week following an analysis of provisional fatal collision reports from An Garda Síochána. They reveal ...

The old phrase “money from America” to describe the beneficence of Irish emigrants towards their home place had a modern manifestation at the annual New Year’s Day Run in Emyvale organised by Glaslough Harriers AC. This year’s 10k and 5k walk and run saw a link forged with the Irish Yank Foundation in order to generate funds for Errigal Truagh Special Needs. Our photograph by Rory Geary shows foundation founder and former Truagh and Monaghan footballer Daniel Yankee McKenna presenting a cheque for €20,000 to Special Needs Group representative Bernie ...

Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Matt Carthy has been informed that there are no proposals to provide CT and MRI scanning services at Monaghan Hospital. Deputy Carthy told the Northern Standard that, having raised the matter with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly TD, he this week received written confirmation from the RCSI Hospital Group stating that, “There are currently no plans to increase the number of MRI or CT scanners in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital.” “Currently there are two CT scanners and one MRI scanner at Cavan Hospital but neither service ...

MAITIU MONAGHAN The 2023 Northern Standard/Monaghan GAA award winners have been announced, with representatives from 18 different clubs picking up awards in what has been an incredibly successful season for Monaghan GAA. Scotstown GAA dominated the Senior Football Award’s, with Rory Beggan being named Club Senior Footballer of the Year, while Conor McCarthy was awarded the Inter-County Footballer of the Year. Elsewhere, Killanny’s Ronan Grimes was named the Intermediate Footballer of the Year after a great season that seen Killanny claim a shock Intermediate Championship, and Phillip Donnelly was awarded Junior ...

PETER HUGHES Plans for the construction of an additional 50+ social housing units and around 15 affordable purchase houses on the Latlorcan site in Monaghan Town were outlined by Monaghan Co Council to Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD on Thursday last. The Minister walked the site of the proposed development and was briefed on the construction plans during engagements in Co Monaghan which also saw him view works nearing completion on the new An Clós housing development in Ballybay, and officially open Castleblayney’s Coill Darach ...

Gardaí last week arrested and questioned two men in relation to a fatal road traffic collision in Clones earlier in the year which claimed the lives of two teenage girls. The fatality occurred on the N54 at Legnakelly on July 31 and resulted in the deaths of 17-year-old Kiea McCann and 16-year-old Dlava Mohamed. The young women, both from Clones town and close friends, were on their way to a debs function. The men, one aged in their 40s and the other in their 60s, were arrested as part of ...

Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council David Maxwell was part of a six-person delegation from the Northern and Western Regional Assembly which met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD at the Hillgrove Hotel in Monaghan Town last Friday to discuss the need for a number of major infrastructural deficits in the region to be addressed. The delegation was led by the Regional Assembly Chair Councillor John Naughten from Roscommon. It also included the Mayor of Sligo, Councillor Declan Bree, Councillor David Collins from Galway, Councillor Jack Murray from Donegal and Councillor Aine Smith ...