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Includes Brackly Bridge Replacement near Castleblayney Michael Fisher Over €16 million from national funds is to be spent this year on the maintenance and renewal of the road network in County Monaghan. This includes bridge rehabilitation and drainage works. These grants supplement any expenditure by Monaghan County Council from their own resources on regional and local road projects and do not represent the total investment in regional and local roads for this year. The largest single expenditure will be the replacement of Brackly bridge on the R180 Carrickmacross to Lough Egish road, ...

Brexit Customs supports for businesses in Co Monaghan and throughout the country will be extended for the first quarter of this year, the Government confirmed this week. 118 businesses in Co Monaghan and 79 in Co Cavan which have taken part in the Clear Customs training programme were praised this week by local Fine Gael TD and Minister for Social Protection and Community and Rural Development Heather Humphreys. Since the beginning of this year, businesses, trading either with or through Great Britain, are subject to a range of new customs ...

The development of biodiversity initiatives at Rossmore Forest Park in Monaghan town would heighten the value and potential of the amenity even further, Fianna Fáil Senator Robbie Gallagher said yesterday. Referring to Coillte’s announcement that Rossmore was the second most popular of its forest parks in the country, and had more than doubled its visitor numbers from 10,399 in February 2020 to 24,713 in December, Senator Gallagher commented: “If you look at the population base for the Dublin Forests, Rossmore Forest Park’s popularity by comparison is really extraordinary. This…

Councillor Conlon makes call on Coillte to step up to the mark with additional funding Rossmore Forest Park in Monaghan Town is now the second most visited of Coillte’s local forests in the country, according to information released by the forestry authority this week. “Some forests like the Dublin Mountains, Rossmore in Monaghan and Donadea in Kildare have experienced doubling or tripling of visitor numbers during the Covid-19 lockdown,” Coillte CEO Imelda Hurley stated. “The Dublin Mountains, of which Ticknock Forest accounts for the majority, is the most visited, followed by ...

The 15th annual AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival will take place from 1st – 5th March 2021. While CMETB Adult Education Services usually encourage adults in Cavan and Monaghan to physically attend free open days, events, classes and workshops throughout the two counties, this year will look a little different as CMETB adapts to the current COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions in place. In 2021, CMETB will run its first ever virtual Adult Learners’ Festival online. The aim of this year’s event is to deliver a strong message of hope within ...

Monaghan Sports Partnership is launching an exciting new programme, starting Monday the 1st March. This is a FREE 6- week programme which is suitable for all ages and is ideal for complete beginners, and anyone who wishes to increase their walking fitness and progress to jogging with relative ease with the help of podcasts from an experienced coach. It is a simple progressive programme that begins with more walking than jogging, and gradually evolves into more jogging than walking over a 6-week period. Participants will receive two podcasts and session ...

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it … JACK MADDEN makes a case for continuity when it comes to staging the Ulster Football Final at St Tiernach’s Park in Clones, the “living room”of the sport’s provincial spiritual home In my memory, I will always see, The town that I have loved so well As the late Luke Kelly brings the words of Phil Coulter to life, he is as much Derry as he is Dublin. Reminiscing on the good times, before the “tanks and guns”. Days when there was “music there ...

Colm Shalvey reports Chairman Declan Flanagan admits the extended delay to the return of Gaelic Games activity did not come as a surprise and that it provides further headaches to fixture planners for 2021 at club and county level. The GAA revealed last week that Government representatives have clarified that inter-county Gaelic Games activity is not covered under the current Level 5 exemptions for elite sports. This means that a return to intercounty training or games is not permitted under the current restrictions, with the GAA Covid Advisory Group outlining that ...

Motorists from North on Non-essential Journeys Turned Back Michael Fisher A major Garda operation began on Monday morning aimed at reducing the level of traffic from Northern Ireland crossing the border into Co. Monaghan. The Covid checkpoints were set up in places such as Mullanderg north of Emyvale on the main N2 Dublin to Derry road, not far from the border at Moybridge. In the first few hours a number of northern registered cars were turned back according to Inspector Adrian Durcan from Monaghan. He said: “We have engaged with a ...

Local Ireland, the association representing 42 weekly paidfor newspapers around the country, is calling on the Government to match its €5 million funding for local radio with support for local newspapers. President of Local Ireland David Ryan said: “We provide a unique service to our readers both urban and rural. We are in every county, every town, every estate and every townland. “We have seen a dramatic fall in advertising revenue during the pandemic with an average drop of 22% among our members in 2020. That has come on top ...