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Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith said this week that he had received confirmation from the HSE that a proposal to provide additional facilities and accommodation at Cavan General Hospital would now be advanced to the next stage. “I have been informed that the Design Team have now been re-engaged to progress the design for the remaining elements of this project with initial designs to be completed by the end of the 3rd quarter of this year,” Deputy Smith told the Northern Standard. “Through Parliamentary Questions and in other Dáil ...

Group-stage fixtures confirmed for new-look Monaghan championship Colm Shalvey reports Monaghan GAA this week confirmed details for the upcoming club championship schedule. All games in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Football Championships will be played on Saturdays and Sundays, starting on July 25. There are six games down for decision on that opening day, starting with a trio of 4pm throw-ins: the IFC Group Two openers between Monaghan Harps and Doohamlet and Emyvale and Killanny and the JFC Group One clash of Rockcorry and Oram. The second game in the latter group ...

.Former Donegal GAA star and TG4 Cul Camps TV show coach Kevin Cassidy (photo) was on hand, with his children Aoife, Nia and Fionn, to launch the Kellogg’s GAA Cul Camps on-pack competition. Kellogg-now in its ninth year sponsoring the Kelloggís GAA Cul Camps- has launched the nationwide on-pack promotion for all GAA clubs across the country to be in with a chance to win prizes worth 40,000 euro in their biggest on-pack prize offering ever. SEE PAGE 34 in this week’s Northern Standard.

JOHN GRAHAM The GAA has reversed its position on sanctioning teams who violate the ban on inter-county training before September 14th by potentially disqualifying them from competition. In a sharp escalation a conference call of county officials heard last weekend that such an approach was now being hardened considerably with possible ejection from competitions if counties are found to be training prior to September 14th. Part of the problem would appear to have been that some County team managers were not making the players available to the clubs and that ...

Michael Fisher Castle Leslie in Glaslough opened its doors to visitors on Monday after a four months shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. The luxury five star hotel has taken a number of precautions to ensure that Covid-19 is kept at bay, including temperature testing of staff. It was the first such business in the tourism sector in Ireland to put in place a new type of sanitising process offered by a Castleblayney based company. Created last year before the pandemic took hold, X-Mist is described as “a ground breaking ...

Comment With the cast list of both Government and Opposition now finalised, it is clear that Oireachtas representatives from Cavan/Monaghan, and some from other bailiwicks who have significant links with the constituency, will be significant players in the political drama beginning to unfold on the national stage at a defining moment for both the Irish economy and Irish society. The roles they will play in both the formulation and forensics of policy in the months ahead will bear significantly on how well the nation manages the challenging fiscal and societal recovery ...

Majella O’Sullivan, Catriona Burgess, Joan McNally and Sarah Fox. Four ladies from Aughnamullen / Corduff who took part in a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Ireland to walk / run 100k in 30 days in the month of June. Between them these ladies raised €8,700 for this worthwhile charity and they should be very proud of their achievement and involvement in this fundraising campaign. They would like to Thank Everyone for their generous donations and well wishes.

Kingspan, the maker of highperformance insulation and building envelope solutions, has presented a cheque for €72,500 to the Irish Hospice Foundation. The money raised will be used by IHF’s Nurses for Night Care which is a national service providing free nursing care to families affected by non-cancer illnesses. A team of 9 people from the Kingscourt-based company were due to travel to Italy to take part in the Cycle Challenge between 28 June – 4 July in aid of the Nurses for Night Care service. The Kingspan team and other ...

The Supreme Court has found in favour of the environmental group An Taisce in a case in which a Co. Monaghan quarry owner was granted a form of retention of planning permission known as “substitute consent’. The Court found that the permission granted by An Bord Pleanála to John McQuaid (Quarries) Ltd at Lemgare, near Clontibret, was inconsistent with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive of European law. After a ten-year fight by An Taisce, the Court ruled that “it must be remembered that the underlying purpose of public participation ...

The PSNI say the death of a man in Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone over the weekend is not being treated as suspicious. Police and paramedics were called to Salley’s bar and restaurant on Moore Street around 5.00pm on Saturday. It’s believed the man collapsed while dining and suffered a massive heart attack. A spokesperson for the restaurant said they had spoken to family members and conveyed their sympathy to them on their sad and tragic loss. The man was in his mid-60s and came from the Dungannon area.