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Vodaphone had completed full connectivity to BCPs or Broadband Connection Points at Connons in the Clones area, the Ballybay Wetlands Centre and Latton Resource Centre, the November meeting of Monaghan Co Council was informed. The management report before the members added: “Installation dates have been scheduled for Carn Resource Centre, Mullyash Community Centre, Tanagh Outdoor Education Centre, Drumgossatt National School, Corcaghan Community Centre and Corduff Raferagh Community Centre. “An installation date of October 30 has been indicated for radio equipment for Monaghan GAA Centre of Excellence. It is expected that ...

Peter Hughes Campaigners for the undergrounding of the EirGrid North-South electricity interconnector project wanted to see action from cavan monaghan’s tds to match the promises they had made in relation to the controversial development, Sinn féin councillor Noel Keelan told monday’s meeting of monaghan county council. “There has been concern of late that some Oireachtas members have gone underground and not the interconnector,” Councillor Keelan commented, adding that this had been said to him some concerned residents along the proposed route of the project. The meeting adopted a proposal from ...

The members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday supported a proposal from Fianna Fáil representative P J O’Hanlon which sought to bring about an all-island strategy to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Councillor O’Hanlon’s proposal called for a meeting to take place between the North and South Health Ministers – Robin Swann MLA and Stephen Donnelly TD – and the chairs of Border local authorities in both jurisdictions with a view to an integrated approach to dealing with the Coronavirus being agreed. Discussion arose out of consideration of ...

Monaghan chase semi-final place COLM SHALVEY REPORTS A place in the All-Ireland LGFA SFC semifinals is the significant prize on offer when Monaghan’s senior ladies take on Galway in Carrick-on-Shannon this Sunday. Monaghan emerged from the neareight- month shutdown with a superb start to their Group Two opener against Tipperary last Friday night in front of the TG4 cameras. Monaghan may have wished to stop the count after they hit nine of the game’s first ten points, but Tipp got right back into the game before half-time, with Aishling Moloney and Róisín ...

Colm Shalvey reports TYRONE 2-19 MONAGHAN.1-12 Monaghan’s long-standing status in the Nicky Rackard Cup ended with last Saturday’s Round 2B defeat at home to Tyrone. Monaghan are the only county to have competed in each of the first 16 years of the Nicky Rackard, having never gone up to the Christy Ring or down to the Lory Meagher, but they are set to drop down to the bottom tier for 2021, with the GAA set to relegate two teams from this year’s competition. Monaghan, who had maintained their Nicky Rackard status via relegation ...

Two-thirds of Co Monaghan’s older citizens have never used the internet, Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council was told. Age Friendly Programme Manager for the Co Council Bernie Bradley said the finding – which emerged from a consultation process involving over 400 respondents from the county’s older population – was something the local authority and others needed to be mindful of when it came to the exclusive provision of some services online, particularly during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Ms Bradley also stated that some older people who had started to ...

BUT NEW STRATEGY HOPES TO DISPEL “MYTHS AND MISINFORMATION” A new integration strategy for Co Monaghan presented to Monday’s meeting of the Co Council has the declared aim of dispelling “myths and misinformation” that contribute to racism still being experienced by the various components of the county’s migrant population. Co Council Social Inclusion Officer Bernie Bradley in presenting the document said that many migrants surveyed in the strategy’s preparation reported experiencing racism on the streets and in schools but one of the objects of the strategy was to dispel the myths ...

Co Monaghan people have been urged by local Government Minister Heather Humphreys to attend to their physical and mental wellbeing during the current phase of the Covid-19 pandemic battle and to avail of new resources being made available this week. The Minister for Social Protection, Rural and Community Development and the Islands said the Government’s new Keep Well community resilience campaign was aimed at showing people of all ages how they could mind physical and mental health and wellbeing by adding healthy and helpful habits to daily and weekly routines. ...

Michael Fisher A plea for people to come forward with fresh information about the disappearance of Columba McVeigh forty-five years ago and to help end their torment has been made by his family. In November 1975, the 19 yearold from Donaghmore Co. Tyrone was abducted by the IRA, murdered and is believed to have been secretly buried in bogland at Bragan mountain. A number of unsuccessful searches for his body have been carried out there in recent years, led by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains. Time ...

What she described as “a firm commitment” that the Tidy Towns competition would proceed in 2021 was delivered yesterday by Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys. The 2020 competition, which is sponsored by retail group SuperValu, was cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. Glaslough in Co Monaghan won the national Tidy Towns title in 2019. “The decision to cancel the competition this year was taken in line with public health advice and in collaboration with the competition sponsor SuperValu,” Minister for Rural and Community Development Humphreys said yesterday. ...