Articles in the General News Category

There was puzzlement and some irritation among the members of the Monaghan Municipal District on Monday to opposition which seems to have belatedly emerged in the local community to the removal of the building in Dublin Street in Monaghan Town that was the birthplace of the famed 19th century nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy from the county’s Register of Protected Structures. The decision was taken at last week’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council and is expected to see the future demolition of the structure as the implementation of the Dublin Street ...

Students from schools in Monaghan Town and Castleblayney have demonstrated that the baton of Co Monaghan entrepreneurial endeavour is being passed on into safe hands by claiming prestigious national awards for their business ideas. Matthew McVicar of St Macartan’s College in Monaghan Town, the son of Combilift CEO and co-founder Martin McVicar, was announced on Friday last as 1st prize-winner in the Senior Category of the National Student Enterprise Programme Finals. Matthew’s winning project was Copper Case, a case designed to sanitise a facemask in just three minutes. Seán Kerley ...

There has been widespread condemnation of the dumping of around 35 carcases of dead lambs in the scenic Sliabh Beagh area of North Monaghan. The dead animals were discovered along the popular Esh walking trail near Poll an Aifrinn in the area on Wednesday of last week when local people alerted Monaghan Co Council, who put in place an operation to have the carcases removed from the area. The Co Council said that the lambs were dumped in twos and threes every 20-30 metres for a distance of approximately a ...

Monaghan Co Council has called on contractors and materials suppliers in Co Monaghan to register to take part in procurement for the provision of services to the local authority and for participation in major capital projects that take place in the county. The call was reinforced by the elected membership of the Council when they met for their adjourned May meeting in the Garage Theatre in Monaghan on Monday morning. Councillors have been calling for some time for a greater dividend to be delivered to the local economy when major ...

EirGrid was accused at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council by Sinn Féin’s Pat Treanor of exhibiting “reckless risk” in pressing ahead with plans to construct its north-south interconnector project while a legal challenge to the development in Northern Ireland was pending and public opposition to the overgrounding of the interconnector remained unremitting. The Council’s monthly discussion of the interconnector issue again saw political tensions rise to the surface between the Sinn Féin councillors and those of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael after Fianna Fáil’s Seamus Coyle accused Sinn Féin ...

Mad About Monaghan or MAM, the business promotion initiative conceived by local businesswoman Elizabeth McGuinness two years ago before the onset of Covid-19 but providing of increasing relevance to efforts to kickstart the local economy as we emerge from the pandemic, is already making a significant impact in the fledgling early months of its active existence. And the prodigious early momentum is bound to accelerate with the launch of the MAM website this week. Readers will recall our mid- March story on Elizabeth’s efforts to gather a number of businesses ...

Farney alert to big Donegal threat after loss to Armagh Monaghan’s Allianz National Football League Division One North campaign doesn’t get any easier, as they face a trip to Ballybofey to face a confident Donegal side this Saturday. These teams experienced contrasting fortunes on the long-awaited opening weekend of the 2021 season, with Donegal taking full points from a high-quality encounter away to Tyrone, while Monaghan left the neutral ground of Enniskillen emptyhanded after falling short against Division One newcomers Armagh. Monaghan will need an improved performance if they are to ...

Colm Shalvey Monaghan have the luxury of some time to prepare for another testing Ulster derby in the Allianz National Hurling League Division 3A after their bid for an opening win in Omagh last Sunday was ruthlessly dismissed by a storming finish from a Damian Casey-inspired Tyrone side. Six-time Nickey Rackard All-Star Casey has often been a thorn in the side of Monaghan’s hurlers and after hitting 1-23 in two derby wins for Tyrone last year, he racked up 1-16 in his first competitive game of 2021. It had been an ...

News of the death in London on May 4 last in his 90th year of William Warner Westenra, the 7th Baron Rossmore, evoked sadness and tributes in Co Monaghan where the Rossmore name is closely woven into local history and culture. “Paddy” Rossmore, as he became known among the jet set of swinging ‘60s London, where he won fame as a society photographer and member of a celebrity milieu that saw him for a time engaged in a headline-making relationship with the singer Marianne Faithfull, preserved close links with the ...

CO COUNCIL TO GET EXPERT ADVICE ON LACK OF TOWN AND VILLAGE PRIVATE HOUSING;“DEZONING” LAND COULD BE PERILOUS APPROACH, MEETING TOLD What contribution people “hoarding” land zoned for housing in Co Monaghan was having on the lack of private housing development in most of the county’s towns and villages was debated at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council during a discussion on the progress of the Council’s current Co Development Plan. While some members advocated the dezoning of land which had been earmarked for housing but had not seen any development ...