Articles in the General News Category

Consultations with An Taisce on the Master Plan prepared for the development of the Sliabh Beagh area in North Monaghan were urged at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District following the acquisition by the Irish National Trust body of 2,200 acres of land there from Lord Rossmore. An Taisce recently announced that they had taken ownership of the former grouse shooting estate in the area owned by Lord Paddy Rossmore, land which extends for over 2,200 acres in Co Monaghan and across the Border into neighbouring Co Tyrone. In ...

Independent North Monaghan councillor Paudge Connolly voted against the adoption by Monaghan Co Council of its Budget for 2021 on Tuesday, citing as his reason an expenditure provision of €200,000 made in respect of a proposal to construct new office premises for the local authority. Councillor Connolly, who was the only one of the 17 councillors present at the meeting to vote against the Budget’s adoption, expressed the view that the Council should “put the brakes on” in relation to the project at a time when they and the county ...

Michael Fisher There have been 63 cases of Covid-19 in Co. Monaghan in the past fortnight. On Tuesday evening, the incidence rate per 100,000 of population for the county measured 109, placing Monaghan 15th out of 26 counties. This is a considerable improvement on the situation a few weeks ago when level five restrictions were introduced and Monaghan was for a short time second in the table after Donegal. BUSINESS GROUP IBEC WANTS RETAIL AND HOSPITALITY SECTORS RE-OPENED FOR CHRISTMAS The chief executive of employers’ group Ibec has told the ...

Assaults, burglaries and thefts falling but drug dealing and domestic violence rising during pandemic, JPC informed Drugs offences and incidents of domestic violence had risen in Co Monaghan over the recent months of Covid- 19 countermeasures and restrictions, but assaults, burglaries and thefts had reduced in frequency, last week’s meeting of Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee was informed. Garda Chief Superintendent Aidan Glacken in a report to the meeting outlined the formation of a new unit in the Cavan/Monaghan division to deal with domestic violence, sexual assaults and human trafficking. The ...

At Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District, Fianna Fáil councillor Raymond Aughey called for liaison with the forestry authority Coillte to investigate the possibility of expanding car parking facilities at the front gate and to the right of the footbridge at Rossmore Forest Park, “with safety for all park users in mind”. He was informed that the Municipal District would liaise with Coillte and explore additional car parking at the amenity. Councillor Aughey also asked if it was possible to have No Parking signs installed at the barrier at ...

Monaghan Ógra Fianna Fáil has warmly received the official reaffirmation earlier this month by Taoiseach Michaél Martin TD of the commitment to end the system of Direct Provision within the lifetime of the current Government. The Monaghan youth Fianna Fáil wing said this week that they had advocated on a number of occasions for the abolition of the current system and its replacement with a system compliant with international standards and fit for purpose. They also welcomed Monaghan Co Council’s adoption of the Co Monaghan Migrant Integration Strategy and Action ...

Enterprise Ireland has called on businesses in Co Monaghan to prepare for Brexit by applying for its Ready for Customs grant and by using the enterprise Ireland Brexit Readiness Checker. The end of the Brexit transition period on January 1 has the potential to cause major disruption to businesses that do not have the required Customs clearance capacity, Enterprise Ireland said this week, adding in a media release: The change in Customs requirements will impact businesses moving goods to, from or through the UK (excluding Northern Ireland). The Ready for ...

One of the organisers of the Monaghan Lions Club ‘Leg it with Lions’ 30-Day Challenge, Fern Ross, has sent us the following update on how the fundraising appeal is going. Registration was due to finish tomorrow, but it has now been extended. Anyone can sign up for the challenge by going to the Club’s Facebook or directly to the page at eventbrite.ie. “We hope you are enjoying our 30 Day Challenge, even in this weather! If you haven’t started yet, don’t worry, there’s still lots of time to get your ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS A shot at a TG4 All-Ireland LGFA SFC semi-final slipped agonisingly by for Monaghan in Carrick-on-Shannon last Sunday, but they can reflect on some solid progress during the disjointed 2020 campaign. Monaghan needed to win a relegation play-off against Westmeath to secure their senior status for 2020, but they went within inches of dumping 2019 All-Ireland finalists Galway out of this year’s race in a thriller that was very much in keeping with the Group Two form guide. All three games in the section were decided by the ...

COLM SHALVEY GAA President John Horan has called on the Association’s membership to light a candle this Saturday, November 21, in memory of the 14 people who were killed on Bloody Sunday in Croke Park in 1920 by British forces. Michael Hogan, the Tipperary footballer shot dead on the pitch that day, after whom the Hogan Stand is named, was a younger brother of Dan Hogan, a Monaghan footballer, who would ascend to Dan Hogan Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces in the new Irish Free State later that ...