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Five towns and villages in County Monaghan are to receive €137,320 as part of a major funding package for rural Ireland delivered by the Minister for rural and Community Development and Cavan Monaghan Deputy, Heather Humphreys. Carrickmacross will receive €40,000 to fund a canopy, as well as picnic area with seating and benches adjacent to the Civic Offices. Some of the money will also be spent on an age friendly business promotion. For Monaghan town, Minister Humphreys has delivered €25,000 to fund a large screen for outdoor events. The package ...

Monaghan businesses have received €2,312,179 to date from the Government’s COVID-19 Restart Grant to help them get back on their feet, a Fine Gael Minister Heather Humphreys has said. Minister Humphreys said, “Monaghan County Council is responsible for administering the Government’s Restart Grant and has confirmed that small and micro businesses in County Monaghan have now been allocated €2,312,179. “This is crucial to helping County Monaghan businesses to get back on their feet after what has been such a difficult few months. “The funding is designed to help businesses with ...

“This is a significant support for up to 42,000 farmers impacted by the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic,” stated Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Dara Calleary TD when announcing details yesterday, Wednesday of the Beef Finishers Payment (BFP), an Exchequer-funded scheme of €50 million to provide income support for up to 42,000 farmers with beef finishing enterprises who have been impacted by the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Minister Calleary stated: “I am fully aware of the difficulties caused by Covid- 19 in the Irish beef ...

The long-awaited plan to reopen part of the Ulster Canal from Clones to Lough Erne was one of the cross-border projects discussed briefly at the 24th plenary meeting of North South Ministerial Council in Dublin Castle on Friday. The last such gathering of Ministers from Dublin and Belfast was three and a half years ago and in the intervening period the power-sharing Executive at Stormont collapsed until its resumption at the start of the year following a Westminster general election. The government was led by the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD, ...

Over the years with the support of Monaghan Integrated Development CLG, “Community Groups including Tidy Town groups throughout Monaghan have been aided and assisted by the placement of participants from the Rural Social Scheme and the Tús Initiative who have helped develop, enhance and maintain their community’s local area. The Tús Initiative is a Community Work Placement Scheme that provides shortterm working opportunities for unemployed people and the Rural Social Scheme provides ‘off the farm’ working opportunities to farmers who in turn provide services to rural communities. The participants skills ...

Monaghan town is to receive a government grant of €25,000 for the provision of a large screen for outdoor town centre events. As part of the package there will also be pop-up canopies, mobile seating and a green space set up at Courthouse Square, along with town centre marketing promotion activity. The money awarded by Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, is part of a €2.8 million package under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. Across the State, 106 towns and villages will benefit. It’s the first ...

Come on in: our doors are open. That’s the message from businesses in Clones as they welcome back customers. It’s been a difficult five months for those shop owners not in the ‘essential services’ category. They had to shut down because of the public health emergency. Now as the government’s roadmap approaches the final stage, trade is beginning to get back to normal. This time however there are strict Covid-19 guidelines in place to keep staff and customers safe. Your patience and cooperation in maintaining social distance and wearing face ...

Club championships continue with teams hitting their stride Colm Shalvey reports The group stages of the club football championships continue at pace, with round three down for decision this weekend. With an average winning margin of less than three points in the second round of games across the three grades last weekend, there have been a glut of close finishes, while just one team in each division have managed back-to-back victories to date. Scotstown are the only team with two wins to their name in the Greenfield Foods SFC after they held off ...

PATRICK SMYTH Kieran McQuaid ensured his name will be etched on Rossmore Golf Club’s Captain’s Day roll of honour with victory at Rossmore Golf Cub last weeend. The 21-year-old, from Emyvale, who has been playing golf for just over a year, beat a strong field of over 200 players in testing conditions. Kieran’s first round score of 42 points saw him lead after posting three birdies and six pars on the Friday, where club captain Tom Cully had greeted every player before their round. In the nine-hole play-off on Sunday the ...

• COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS A FACTOR IN PRESSURE ON SERVICES SAYS BUS ÉIREANN Bus Éireann has said that restrictions on capacity arising from Government regulations to stop the spread of Covid-19 are a factor in issues that have arisen with their Monaghan services. Complaints have escalated in the last week about passengers being unable to access buses at the Monaghan station because they are already filled to existing capacity when they arrive at the local depot, even though some prospective travellers have pre-booked their tickets online. Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Matt ...