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ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS KEY FOCUS OF INITIATIVE, JPC TOLD There were currently 137 active cases before the Cavan/Monaghan Divisional Protective Services Unit established by the Gardaí in July last year to investigate sexual crimes and serious domestic violence incidents, Tuesday’s meeting of Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee was informed. In a presentation to the meeting, Garda Detective Sergeant Rose McGirl said that the Cavan/Monaghan DPSU was “very much a victim-centred unit” with a focus on creating the optimum environment for victims of sexual crime and domestic coercive control to disclose ...

Michael Fisher Monaghan and Ireland mourned the loss during the past week of one of its best known and admired citizens, the feminist and women’s rights campaigner, Mamo McDonald. Mamo, who was born in Co. Galway but spent most of her 91 years bringing up her family in Clones and then moved to Drumully, Smithborough, was widely respected as a former President of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association. She was honoured with a People of the Year award in 1999 for her services to Irish women and older people. Mrs McDonald ...

Our picture by Rory Geary shows the new Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, Castleblayney Fine Gael local public representative Aidan Campbell, accepting his chain of office from predecessor Colm Carthy of Sinn Féin following the Annual Meeting of the local authority in Monaghan’s Garage Theatre on Monday. Councillor Campbell in his acceptance speech remarked on the coincidence of the Annual Meeting with the Summer Solstice, “a day of hope” when they experienced the maximum of sunshine and the least of darkness. “Following the last 16 months of darkness and fear, ...

Bye-laws adopted by Monaghan Co Council last year made provision for the current outdoor serving of alcohol by licensed premises if the necessary licence had been obtained and did not have to be amended, Co Council Director of Services Cathal Flynn told Tuesday’s meeting of the Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee. Mr Flynn was responding by references to the members to issues which had arisen in other parts of the country regarding the legal entitlement of some licensed premises to serve alcohol in outdoor settings as part of the gradual ...

An initiative being undertaken in Co Monaghan to map the locations of AED or defibrillator devices could be used as a template for a national programme, a representative of the National Ambulance Service told Tuesday’s meeting of the Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee. The meeting heard that there had been expedient progress on the call made by outgoing Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council Colm Carthy last week, in the wake of the Christian Eriksen incident during a Euro 2020 soccer international, for the locations of potentially life-saving defibrillator equipment at ...

Local news publishers are among the most trusted media in Ireland according to the 2021 Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The report shows that trust in local newspapers and their digital content has increased from 71% to 75% over the past year, while levels of distrust are lower than for any other media and only equalled by the Irish Times. President of Local Ireland Declan McGuire of the Connacht Tribune Group said: “Local Ireland represents 42 paid-for newspapers all around the country. During ...

The deaths one hundred years ago of two members of the Annyalla Company of the Irish Republican Army on June 30th 1921 will be marked by a short ceremony at their graveside in Annyalla cemetery on this coming Wednesday, June 30th, at 7.30pm. Organised by members of Sinn Féin in Annyalla, Cremartin and Clontibret, the event will include the laying of wreaths, a minute’s silence for private prayer and reflection and an address by a local party representative. Members of the McEneaney families will be in attendance. Local people, irrespective ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS “This year’s Monaghan minor panel have retained their focus despite two shutdowns in a lengthy season, which is now set to extend into 2021” was how we summed up the county’s late-December Ulster MFC quarter-final win over Antrim, but just how long into the year that campaign would stretch was unknown at that stage. A convincing win at Corrigan Park on the penultimate Sunday of 2020 had Monaghan looking forward to bidding to qualify for a third consecutive provincial final, but extended restrictions post- Christmas put the competition ...

Colm Shalvey The Ulster Senior Football Championship gets underway this Sunday with a first-round fixture between Down and Donegal in Newry. Donegal were within one win of their first ever hat-trick of Ulster titles in the delayed 2020 championship, only to see their provincial reign ended by Cavan in the final on November 22. We take a look here at the contenders for the Anglo- Celt Cup, which will be up for grabs on August 1. Like last season, this year’s Senior Football Championship will be played as a straight knockout ...

Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan teams don’t often do things the easy way and that was certainly the case in a weekend where three county senior sides saw crucial league games go right down to the wire. The county’s senior men, ladies and hurlers were all involved in cracking games inside just over 24 hours, earning two one-point wins (one in extratime) while losing one in a free-taking shoot-out; having scored a combined 4- 52 while conceding 6-44. The last-gasp Allianz NFL Division One Relegation Play-Off win against Galway was arguably the ...