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CLLR PAUDGE CONNOLLY WAS AT THE GALWAY GOLF DINNER ATTENDED BY EIGHTY PEOPLE SINN FÉIN TO INVESTIGATE CLLR CATHY BENNETT’S STAY IN DONEGAL FOLLOWING TRIP TO LANZAROTE Michael Fisher Two Monaghan Councillors have separately justified their actions after travelling to Spain at the end of July but not fully restricting their movements on their return to Ireland earlier this month. Independent Councillor Paudge Connolly came to national attention as being one of the eighty-one guests at a controversial dinner in Co. Galway last week hosted by the Oireachtas Golf Society. The arrangements ...

The “school around the corner” may not be “just the same” as the old song says as places of education begin to reopen in the Covid-19 environment, but the excitement of one’s first day at school seems, on the evidence of Northern Standard photographer Rory Geary’s image, to remain undiminished. Pictured is Andrew Berry who started school on Wednesday with his big sister Annie to guide him on his first steps as a Latnamard National School pupil, his parents in the background to lend solidarity and support and Acting Principal ...

Exceedances for the pesticide MCPA have been detected in the public drinking water supplies in two different areas of Monaghan, Irish Water stated this week. MCPA is a commonly used herbicide present in many products used to control thistles, docks and rushes. Following routine sampling of drinking water supplies the exceedances were recorded in the Emyvale and Glaslough public water schemes that are supplied from the Glaslough Tyholland Group Water Scheme. Irish Water said it was working in partnership with a range of organisations involved in the National Pesticides and ...

Michael Fisher BD Foods closed its base in Glaslough on 14th August. The operation which employed around fifty people is now merged with its parent company, Henderson Foodservice. It was announced in May that, owing to the impact of COVID-19, Henderson Foodservice intended to streamline and centralise its operations in order to strengthen the business for the future. This included the closure of BD Foods in Co. Monaghan along with Foodco operations in Ashbourne, Co. Meath and Lisburn. All BD Foods customers are now serviced from Henderson Foodservice’s Mallusk base ...

Comment It seems superfluous to add more words of heat to the furnace of outrage stoked by the fallout from what the media with unimaginative but inevitable bleak wit has branded Golfgate. but it does seem necessary to reflect upon the mood in the country that the unfortunate episode and the reaction to it seems to disclose. at a crucial time in the nation’s combat with Covid-19, when many but not all important sections of the economy are finding a way to function again in the midst of the pandemic restrictions, ...

An Irish app recently launched in the Monaghan region has come to the rescue of local restaurants by helping them stay open during the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. A media release stated: Among the many takeaway businesses that have started using Gigable are big name brands such as Eddie Rockets, Apache Pizza and Abrakebabra. The app also allows many people to earn extra income in their spare time by doing shifts as delivery drivers. ‘Gigable’ is a ground-breaking new ‘gig economy’ app which connects restaurants with freelance delivery drivers. This has ...

A free counselling service has been launched aimed at providing coping skills and vital information to people who are caring for the estimated 800 stroke survivors living in monaghan. The Irish Heart Foundation has urged people to apply immediately for the six-week service which gives them the ability to look after themselves and the strength to deal effectively with their loved one’s care. The free programme includes up to six, one-hour sessions giving participants an opportunity to share worries and frustrations in a confidential manner and learn practical tools to ...

The publication this week of the preferred route corridors for the Ardee to Castleblayney and Clontibret to the Border N2 road schemes ushers in what is expected to be an intensive period of public consultation on the chosen options. The Emerging Preferred Route Corridor public consultation period runs from August 25 until October 5. During the first three weeks of consultation – until September 11 – the public can arrange meetings with a member of the Project Team by phone or using digital technologies. During the second three weeks, in-person ...

BAFTA nominated Irish actor and well-known young Hollywood star Barry Keoghan was back in Dublin recently to launch the 2020 Coca-Cola Thank you Fund. Marking a decade of support for youth-orientated non-profit groups across the island of Ireland, this year’s fund has been reimagined to help groups respond to the impact of Covid- 19. During the peak of the pandemic Coca-Cola provided relief funds to those most at risk from the immediate challenges of the crisis leaving €50,000 available through the Coca- Cola Thank You Fund this year. Barry was ...

John Graham It’s another jam packed and action packed weekend with twelve championship matches scheduled between relegation play offs in the McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling Intermediate and Greenfield Foods Senior Championships and quarter-finals in the Universal Graphics Junior Football championship spread over Saturday and Sunday. The action gets under way at 2:30pm on Saturday, with two play offs in the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship, Clontibret seeking redemption following their exit from the series last Sunday when they take on Castleblayney in Cremartin and Carrickmacross is the venue for the meeting ...