Articles in the General News Category

Michael Fisher The refusal by the Green Party leader and Minister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan TD, to meet the County Monaghan Anti-Pylon Committee and the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign is ‘scandalous’, according to the Sinn Féin Deputy for Cavan Monaghan, Matt Carthy. He was speaking alongside his party colleague, Darren O’Rourke TD, during an exchange with Minister Ryan in the Dáil last week on the North South interconnector. Commenting afterwards Deputy Carthy also criticised Fianna Fáil. He said their representatives had tried to deflect ...

Emyvale’s Silver Hill Duck emerged as star of the show at the 2020 Great Taste Awards, known as the Oscars of the food industry. The highly successful North Monaghan food enterprise was awarded 11 Gold Stars across seven different products including their Whole Duck, Duck Fillets and Confit Duck Legs specialities. They were up against a competitive entry of 12,777 products drawn from 106 different countries. “2020 has been an extremely challenging year for all food suppliers but it was certainly a high point to have our most successful year ...

Reports that the closure of Ulster Bank operations in the Republic of Ireland was being considered have generated alarm this week, with the Financial Services Union calling on NatWest to provide clarity on the issue and reassurance to staff. The issue was raised in the Dáil by Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith, who told Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe TD that closures of Ulster Bank branches would have a particularly severe impact in his home constituency. Ulster Bank closed a number of its local branches in recent years but ...

The pesticide MCPA has been detected at levels above the permitted amount in the public drinking water supplies in Glaslough and Emyvale, Co Monaghan for the second time in two months, Irish Water said this week. It was stated in an Irish Water media release: MCPA is a commonly used herbicide present in many products used to control thistles, docks and rushes. The exceedances were noted following routine sampling of drinking water supplies. Three further exceedances were recorded in these schemes in 2019. These two supplies source their water from ...

Like many other organisations, the Mens Sheds in County Monaghan were forced to close temporarily by the Covid crisis. However, having weathered the initial storm, the Sheds are reopening their centres. The Mens Sheds county coordinator, Peter Cavanagh, says “our sheds are open for social activities and operating on the basis of limited numbers at present. We are not yet allowed to use any workshop equipment as per Covid guidelines.” He added “we are looking forward to the day when all our Sheds are open and back to full capacity.” ...

The Government has been urged by Cavan/Monaghan TD Matt Carthy to heighten preparations for a possible No Deal Brexit outcome as the potentially crucial phase of discussions on the UK’s departure from the European Union commenced in Brussels this week. The Sinn Féin Deputy told Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney TD in the Dáil that the Government’s response to any No Deal result had to include consideration of the question of Irish unity. Campaign group Border Communities Against Brexit (BCAB) launched a new poster campaign at the weekend which ...

Monaghan Co Council spent almost €1.8 million in housing adaption grants to accommodate the needs of elderly and disabled people in 2020 but still had to close the scheme by June because it became oversubscribed. This emerged at last week’s meeting of the local authority during a discussion engendered by a motion from Fianna Fáil’s Seamus Coyle seeking an urgent meeting with the relevant Government Minister in order to leverage more funding for the relevant schemes and alleviate what he described as conditions….

Enniskillen author David McCann has turned his ebook The Green Fella into a short film in which North Monaghan’s Bragan Bog provides the atmospheric backdrop for some of the key action in this tale of Royal Irish Constabulary officers confronted by an ambush situation. Filming took place at Bragan and in Mullaghfad Church and Mullaghfad Forest in Co Tyrone in 2018. The film – now free to view on YouTube – begins when …

At the public consulation of the upgrade of the N2 from Ardee to Castleblayney took place in the Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross, the last day for the public to attend is tomorrow Friday 2nd October. Pic. Pat Byrne.

The Monaghan GAA senior footballers and management’s recent ‘shave or dye’ fundraiser resulted in well over 30,000 euro being presented to representatives from local cancer services and the Holy Family Special School this week, writes COLM SHALVEY The county team, whose 2020 season was put on hold since early March, set an ambitious target of €30,000 for their fundraising campaign that saw each member of the set-up either shave or dye their hair back in July, resulting in several peroxide hairdos being on show during the recent club championships, which finished ...