Articles in the General News Category

A Monaghan townswoman now working as a doctor in Glasgow has raised almost €6,000 for alzheimer’s research through a fun and innovative fund-raising idea. Sinead McAree didn’t want to let her 50th birthday pass without marking it in some conspicuous fashion despite it being spent in lockdown. So she decided to stage her onewoman 24-hour kitchen disco as a means of fund-raising for an important cause. Sinead disco-danced for 24 hours, with a five-minute break each hour (“To go to the loo, change my socks and have a wee cry ...

The formal contract signing for the €17.6 million Monaghan Peace Campus project took place at the Monaghan Co Council meeting chamber in the M-TEK building, Knockaconny on Friday last, July 10. The four-storey development, to take place at the former local authority machinery yard site at The Plantation in Monaghan Town, will incorporate community space, a youth facility, a new town library and a cultural heritage area. The project is supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) which awarded €9.5 ...

Leading Co Monaghan manufacturing firm Combilift has been announced as the winner of the International Forklift of the Year Award for its innovative Combi-CS pedestrian counterbalance stacker forklift. The announcement comes after an international judging process. The IFOY Awards are one of the most prestigious and hotly contested international awards in the materials handling industry, honouring the best products and solutions of the year. The Monaghan company won the Warehouse Truck Lowlifter Category for its innovative Combi- CS product. Finalists’ products underwent stringent IFOY audit and innovation checks by industry ...

Jack Charlton’s status as ‘Honorary Irishman’ was cited frequently during the outpouring of tearful tribute engendered by news of his passing last weekend. But the former Republic of Ireland soccer manager and World Cup winner as a player for England in 1966, the man who masterminded the maiden odysseys of the Boys in Green and their legion of supporters to the European Championships and the World Cup, the conjuror-in-chief of sainted memories for a generation of the nation, could also lay claim to the title of ‘Honorary Monaghanman’ – thanks ...

Comment Having waged an arduous campaign to resist the doomsday scenario of the UK Government’s Brexit escapade and avoid the creation of a hard Border on the island, the people of our circulation area and those of frontier counties on either side of the divide will, we imagine, have monitored the trend of some of the debate around the Government’s extension of Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions this week with various levels of incredulity. Calls for a “zero-Covid” strategy that would have as one of its impacts the temporary sealing of the ...

The following statement was received from Senator Robbie Gallagher: Senator Robbie Gallagher has received confirmation that the Bothar Oirialla Group Home in Carrickmacross for persons with a disability will open in the latter half of this year. Senator Gallagher, who has been in constant contact with the HSE and Minister Anne Rabbitte, Minister of State for Disability, says that he has been advised by John Hayes, Chief Officer CH01, that: “CH01 Disability Services has received €600,000 in its 2021 funding budget allocation to progress additional residential service and this funding ...

For those wed to the “oddball pursuit” of hurling in Co Monaghan, the journey is always “more of a process than a miracle” according to JACK MADDEN The hats, scarves, and headbands are on sale. “Three euro each, two for a fiver!”. The bandwagoners fill the streets. Friends and family are more scattered, their nerves all over the place. The locals lament the influx of culchies once more. “Next!” is the call from the scauldy, middle-aged woman in the burger van. The significance begins to sink in. Perfect imperfection. This is ...

The extension of Covid-19 restrictions is expected to delay the GAA’s return to inter-county action until March and have a knock-on effect on the proposed 2021 calendar. The association is expected to update its return-to-play plans in the coming days following confirmation that the Government has agreed to continue Level 5 restrictions until at least March 5. The Allianz Leagues had been scheduled to begin on the last weekend of February, but a new start date of the end of March, at the earliest, is now on the cards. It ...

The five-part webinar series, which takes place between 28 January and 25 March, aims to help pre-exporting businesses on their export journey Enterprise Ireland is hosting a series of webinar workshops aimed at helping Irish businesses to grow through export. The Export Compass Webinar Series takes place between 28 January and 25 March. Attendance is complimentary for all micro and SME companies that are taking their first steps on their export journey. The series will feature five webinars, each of which will guide businesses in developing their export strategy and plans. This ...