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The death took place on Friday morning, 8th January, of Eddie Gallagher of Highfield Close, Killygoan, Monaghan town. A highly regarded and long time resident of the county town, the late Mr. Gallagher was a native of the Glaslough area of Co. Monaghan. In his 80th year, Eddie is survived by his wife Mary and by their family Patsy, Cathy, Teresa, Eamon, Collette, John, Margaret, Edward and Martina, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and by his grandchildren. He is also mourned by his brother Hugh and sisters Maureen, Rose, Tess, Josie and Dolores ...

€844,370 were sold in November and December of last year, Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District was informed. Co-ordinator Donal McElwain expressed the view that the record number of sales for the time of year was evidence that the local public had embraced the message to support local trade which had been the theme of a campaign by the Municipal District and the Monaghan Town Team retail support organisation. Referring to the additional number of corporate Town Voucher sales that had been achieved, Mr McElwain paid tribute to the ...

The potentially transformative effects on the economic and social fabric of Clones of the realisation of the next phases of the Ulster Canal regeneration project were outlined by representatives of Waterways Ireland in an online engagement with the members of Monaghan Co Council on Tuesday. But a statement by Waterways Ireland Director of Technical Services Joe McMahon that his organisation had no remit from the North-South Ministerial Council to “look at anything beyond Clones at this stage” dismayed councillors from the North Monaghan area who were anticipating future phases of ...

Promised PPE not forthcoming and medical card scheme inadequate By Veronica Corr On Thursday evening last, 14th January, The Northern Standard spoke to Dr. Bernie Fee, a dentist who runs a large practice, Fee Dental on Chapel Lane, Carrickmacross, about how the pandemic had affected dentistry and the pressures it has presented for the profession. Dr. Fee pulled no punches, stating that the Government and HSE had to step up and address the following issues: 1) Dentists need to be prioritised for the vaccination against COVID-19 as they are frontline and ...

Cootehill Precision Engineering was announced on Tuesday as a finalist in the National Enterprise Awards. Located at the Business Park on the town’s Cavan Road, the company provides machined parts to a range of sectors including the wind, heat, energy, pharmaceutical, quarrying, and glass industries in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. Cootehill Precision Engineering was established in 1992. Congratulating the company on being selected by the Cavan Local Enterprise Office as a contender for the awards, Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael Senator Joe O’Reilly said the company had a highly skilled ...

Michael Fisher The ‘Clones Cyclone’ Barry McGuigan fondly remembered his “bubbly, happy, happy” daughter Danika McGuigan on Friday’s Late Late Show on RTÉ1 in an emotional interview with Ryan Tubridy. On a couple of occasions he had to pause to collect his thoughts while he openly shed a tear as he recollected the final weeks of her life. Danika known as ‘Nika’ passed away in July 2019 aged just 33 after a battle with cancer returned. As an 11 year-old she had previously been diagnosed with lymphoid leukemia and successfully ...

Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan native Aaron McCarey will be looking to make an impact at Cliftonville in 2021 after signing for the Belfast club late last month. Scotstown man McCarey had to remain patient as understudy to long-serving Dundalk goalkeeper Gary Rogers for the bulk of his two seasons at Oriel Park, but he will be hoping to sweep aside another veteran, Richard Brush, at Cliftonville. The Lilywhites won all three major honours available to them in Ireland once across those campaigns, with McCarey starting the 2019 League Cup Final, where ...

JACK MADDEN ponders the impact of Covid-19 on the sports fields, and sporting psyche, of Co Monaghan Brexit. it has finally happened. the late Dolores o’Riordan would question if they had to let it linger. the initial relief will not take long to wear off. Reality will seep in like water into a dry sponge. in our parts, the sponge is thirsty, and the water will continue to flow. intersecting stormont and leinster house should surely be beneficial, but we have seen it is anything but. Between a rock and a ...

INCIDENCE RATE OVER FOURTEEN DAYS IS HIGHEST IN STATE Michael Fisher As Covid-19 continues to spread in the community in Co. Monaghan, the level of cases over two weeks is now the highest in the Republic and over double the national average. On Wednesday evening the incidence rate stood at 1638.8 and Monaghan was top of the list of twenty-six counties. The same day 275 positive cases were added to the total in the county which now stands at 2467. In the past week, daily totals of over 5000 and 6000 ...

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has reiterated his call for the Government to instruct the HSE to restore additional services to Monaghan Hospital. He said this week that that the removal of services from local hospitals such as Monaghan by successive Governments had been exposed as a fallacy during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Dáil prior to the Christmas break, Deputy Carthy had asked Health Minister Stephen Donnelly whether additional services would be restored to Monaghan Hospital in 2021. In his response, Minister Donnelly stated: “The services at Monaghan Hospital, ...