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A cross-Border operation involving Revenue and law enforcement personnel uncovered a plant for the manufacture of illegal diesel in the Castleshane area of Co Monaghan at the weekend. Three people were arrested at a premises in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh as part of the same investigation. In a search under warrant of a house and outbuildings at Agnaglogh, Castleshane on Friday and Saturday last, Revenue officers located a distillation plant to launder marked mineral oil. Revenue said that the intelligence-led operation “targeting mineral oil laundering” was carried out by the Customs ...

Michael Fisher “It’s a project that has been close to may heart since my days on Monaghan County Council.” A delighted Minister Heather Humphreys announced government approval of €6 million towards the restoration of the Ulster Canal between Clones and Lough Erne on Friday. The Minister for Rural and Community Development hailed it as an ‘historic day’ for Clones as the green light was given to the commencement of restoration works between Clones and Clonfad in Co. Monaghan, on the border with Co. Fermanagh near Wattlebridge. The works which will ...

TOWN VOUCHER SALES HIT €600,000, MUNICIPAL DISTRICT TOLD Monaghan people were embracing the ‘Stay Local, Shop Local’ message as the crucial weeks of the Christmas holiday trading period commenced, Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District was told. Sales of the Monaghan Town Voucher in the November/ December period to date had reached €600,000, with Monaghan Shopping Centre selling €11,000 worth of vouchers during the first four days of the more liberal trading activity heralded by the easing of the Covid-19 restrictions, Monaghan Business Support Executive Siobhan Sherry informed the meeting. ...

Michael Fisher Micheál Martin TD has told the Dáil he will pursue both the British and Northern Ireland authorities regarding the no-warning carbomb attack in Belturbet, Co Cavan, in which two teenage civilians were killed in December 1972. Loyalist paramilitaries were responsible for the bombing which killed Geraldine O’Reilly, aged 15, and 16 year-old Paddy Stanley. There have been allegations of collusion by British security forces in the attack. The matter was the subject of an RTÉ Investigates documentary broadcast on Monday eveing. Mr Martin described the bomb attack on ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the American Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Edward J Crawford (centre), visited CombiLift Global Headquarters to discuss strengthening trade links between Ireland and the United States, where CombiLift also have a parts facility. His Excellency is pictured here with a CombiLift forklift that is being completed for an American customer at the CombiLift plant in Monaghan. Also included are Robert Moffett (left) and Martin McVicar (right), CombiLift. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard. See full story on page 17.

Members of Three Councils Say ‘No Pylons’ Michael Fisher Three Fianna Fáil Councillors from Monaghan, Cavan, and Meath have joined together to call on the government to direct EirGrid to cease all works immediately on the proposed North-South interconnector. They are calling for the full implementation of the Fianna Fáil motion of Feburary 2017 as adopted by Dáil and Seanad Éireann to commission an independent report incorporating international industry expertise to examine the technical feasibility and cost of undergrounding the planned 400kV high voltage overhead line with over 400 pylons. The ...

Michael Fisher The Taoiseach has said health officials from either side of the border will speak to each other weekly from now on in order to co-ordinate their response to Covid-19. The serious situation that has developed with health services in the North where patients had to be held in ambulances outside Antrim hospital on Tuesday evening before being admitted to the emergency department led to suggestions that the Republic might be asked to offer help. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said the situation in Northern Ireland was very serious, ...

A 32-year-old man with an address in Monaghan Town was sent for trial at the Belfast Crown Court on Friday last for the alleged murder of an 11-month-old baby boy in Keady, Co Armagh in November 2019…

NARROW PATH TO TRADE AGREEMENT STILL EXISTS BUT TEMPORARY “NO DEAL” SCENARIO COULD TRANSPIRE SAYS EU Haulage firms and farming and agri-business representatives in the Border region warned of potentially severe Brexit-related impacts on their sectors this weeks as the attempts by the EU and the UK to broker a post-Brexit trade deal entered their decisive final days. A narrow path to a deal still existed, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday as pressure mounted on negotiators to finish the parley by the end of the week in ...

Christmas is almost upon us and the doors and shop windows of many businesses that were closed during the Level 5 restrictions are back open. Our towns are busy again. People are spending money and supporting local businesses and jobs. Despite the Christmas trade, 2020 has been a very difficult year for many businesses in our county. Monaghan County Council has provided a range of supports to businesses to help keep them afloat through restrictions and reduced trade. Through our Finance Section Office, we have provided 997 businesses with Restart ...