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Monaghan GAA ‘shave or dye’ to support charities COLM SHALVEY The Monaghan GAA senior footballers and management have decided to shave or dye their hair in aid of two very worthy charities, with Drew Wylie’s ‘lockdown look’ grabbing the headlines this week! The county team, whose 2020 season has been on pause since early March, are hoping to raise an ambitious target of €30,000 to support cancer services in Co Monaghan and the Holy Family Special School in Cootehill, which caters for pupils with learning disabilities and/or autism across Cavan and Monaghan. ...

Enda McGinley, Joe McMahon, Mattie Donnelly and Ryan McMenamin (Tyrone), Éamon McGee (Donegal), Mark Poland (Down), Finian Hanley (Galway) and Cora Staunton (Mayo) among others. Also among the many to take part from within the county were Eugene ‘Nudie’ Hughes, Bernie Murray, Declan Loughman, Gerry McCarville, Ray, Jack and Ellen McCarron, Kieran Hughes, Linda Martin, Ciara McGuinness, Gavin Doogan, Mark Counihan, Paul O’Connor and Colin Malone, while there were also messages of support from Tommy Bowe, Conor McManus and Joe Brolly (Derry). Organisers of the weekend’s events said they were ...

In glorious sunshine last Sunday morning 134 members of the Monaghan Walkernutts/Joggernutts group along with some friends from Monaghan Phoenix ran/walked a combined total of 1691.5km while adhering to the Government’s rules on staying within 5km of home. This was 567km more than the group ran/walked on their May Day challenge at the start of the month. The ‘Whit Weekend Challenge’ was the brainchild of group members Catherine Murphy and Noel Harraghy. Once again the idea was to either walk or run 5km, 10km, 10 miles or a half marathon. ...

Local Monaghan Town residents and a young asylum seeker activist in St. Patrick’s Direct Provision Centre have organised a socially distant protest for the forecourt of Monaghan Courthouse on Saturday next to demonstrate against racism in Ireland and to show solidarity with the protest movements which have grown up in the US this week following the death of George Floyd. Mr Floyd died while being arrested by police in Minneapolis. Footage of the arrest, which showed an officer holding Mr Floyd on the ground by placing his knee ...

The birth of triplet bull calves on a farm in Tyholland in Co Monaghan is being hailed as an extremely rare happening in Irish agricultural circles. The Simmental triplets were born on the farm of Owen McNally in April. It’s believed that the odds of a cow giving birth to triplet calves are over 105,000/1, while the chances of the calves being of the same sex and healthy are less than one in 400,000 births. The new arrivals were calved on their own by their mother, an animal home-bred by ...

Michael Fisher As the country prepares for coronavirus restrictions to be further relaxed on Monday, a Monaghan doctor has urged caution as clusters of Covid-19 are still being detected in the county. The GP practice of Dr Illona Duffy in The Diamond detected six positive cases on Tuesday and two more yesterday morning. Interviewed on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Dr Duffy said her surgery in Co. Monaghan and some in Co. Cavan are seeing definite clusters of the virus. She explained that cases are now emerging from workplaces such as factories, ...

A report has claimed that both the political stability and economic prosperity of Northern Ireland are under threat from the uncertain outcome of the negotiations between the UK and EU over the form that the British Brexit departure from Europe will take. As what was described as “a crucial week” of renewed post- Brexit trade agreement talks between London and Brussels got underway, the House of Lords EU Committee issued a report which claimed that British businesses could decide that it was “economically unviable to continue operations across the Irish ...

By Veronica Corr Magheracloone Mitchells GAA Club recently launched Milly’s Mini Marathon on the fundraising platform everydayhero. com to raise funds for Heart Children Ireland, who are providing support to Milly Byrne’s family from Magheracloone, Carrickmacross, since they are in the UK waiting for a heart to become available to the 22- month-old who needs a transplant. The itself event will take place over 24-hours, starting on the stroke of midnight this Sunday, June 7th. The cause immediately struck a chord with community members and those further afield, and the ...

The family of a Castleblayney native who went missing while believed en route from London to Spain in the early 1990s have appealed to people within the circulation area of the Northern Standard to assist in their quest for information. Bernadette Cooper, née Susan Bernadette Hughes and a native of Tavnaskea, Castleblayney, was last heard of in January 1993 when she contacted a Spanish friend from London to indicate that she was returning to the Benalmadena area where she had previously operated a bar business. British police are currently conducting ...

Ardaghey film-maker Colin Peppard has won an award at Argentina’s Desert Light Film Festival for a short film made during the Covid-19 restrictions. Colin directed and starred in So Say All Of US, which tells the story of a man struggling to cope with the experience of extended lockdown. Originally made for a college assignment, the film was selected as winner of the Short Film in Quarantine category at the Argentinian festival. Jury members Eduardo Elli, Ezequiel Yoffe and Pablo Radice (all previous winners of the Best National Feature Film ...