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Monaghan’s Anne-Marie McArdle registered a charming impression when she took to the stage of the Rose of Tralee Festival on Monday night. New Zealand representative Rose Keely O’Grady took the coveted title but Ann-Marie by common consensus did her home place proud, delivering a moving rendition of the beautiful Irish/Scottish folk song Wild Mountain Thyme and proving more than a match in banter for host Dáithí Ó Sé. Speaking afterwards Anne-Marie was deeply appreciative of the great support she had received from all across Co Monaghan. Anne- Marie felt the ...

Monaghan Phoenix athlete Daisy Walker travels to Lima in Peru this week to take part in the World U-20 Athletics Championships. Daisy was selected to represent Ireland in the 4x400m Mixed Relay event, which takes place on Tuesday August 27 next. Her international selection comes after an outstanding outdoor season at both 200m and 400m disciplines which saw Daisy win the Irish School Championships. The 17-year-old St Louis Leaving Cert student carries the best wishes of her club and county with her to South America. (See our sports pages for ...

Ireland will be the country in Europe with the highest level of fuel taxation after the October Budget. This was the stark prediction from representative association Fuels for Ireland this week in a reiteration of the sectors concern about fuel tax increases already implemented which are likely to be added to in the forthcoming Budget. “The combined impact of recent tax hikes and forthcoming increases will push Ireland to the forefront of fuel taxation across Europe,” the FFI said in a statement. “After the excise duty increase on August 1 ...

COLM SHALVEY Monaghan are searching for a new senior football manager after Vinnie Corey stepped down on Monday. The Clontibret clubman has given more than two decades of service to Monaghan’s senior footballers, having made a then-record 184 appearances between 2003 and 2019, before serving as a selector and then as manager for the last two seasons. Corey led Monaghan to retain Division One status in the 2023 Allianz NFL with a last-day win over Mayo, while that summer’s championship odyssey brought them to an All-Ireland semi-final, where they fell short ...

Lakeland Dairies held separate meetings with An Taoiseach Simon Harris TD and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD at this year’s Tullamore Show. Both meetings focused on the challenges facing the dairy sector including uncertainty over the nitrates derogation and the need for a coherent Government plan to support agriculture in reaching its climate target. The meetings involved Lakeland Dairies’ Chairperson Niall Matthews and Group CEO Colin Kelly. Speaking after the meetings, Niall Matthews thanked the Taoiseach and Minister McConalogue for their engagement. “Our meetings with ...

What was described as a “full-circle moment” was celebrated at Monaghan Hospital last week with the official opening of a new ante-natal suite. Ante-natal services transferred to the St Davnet’s Campus in the town in 2004 but they have been restored to the Monaghan Hospital location since June of this year. The hospital’s former dental services area underwent extensive renovation at a cost of €540,000 to ready it to receive the provision, which will be housed in the newly named Kavanagh Suite. The funding was provided by the HSE under ...

Like a hardy annual, the celebration of Co Monaghan rural community life that is Tydavnet Show will reach full bloom for the 71st time at the Drumshevera showgrounds in Scotstown this Saturday, August 17. The final stage of preparations for the event, which has resumed its place at the forefront of the north-east’s summer show circuit since returning from its Covid-imposed hiatus a couple of years ago, were well underway as we went to Press. Organisers were reporting a high number of entries across the range of dairy and beef ...

The sudden passing at the weekend of Archbishop Noël Treanor of Silverstream, Tyholland has evoked widespread sorrow and evinced many tributes from leading figures of Church and State. Aged 73, Archbishop Treanor, the former Bishop of Down and Connor, had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union and was in Brussels when his sudden death occurred on Sunday morning. He was appointed to the position by Pope Francis on November 26 2022. He is survived by his brother John, sister Mary nephew John Thomas and nieces Lisa, Rachel, ...

Mad About Monaghan’s Liz McGuinness is bound for the Milwaukee Irish Festival later this month to bang the drum for Féile Oriel and Monaghan tourism at what is recognised as the biggest Irish cultural and music event outside the Emerald Isle itself. Liz, one of the prime movers behind the hugely successful Féile Oriel revival, has been working with Milwaukee festival director Barry Stapleton since early last year to forge a mutually beneficial link between the two events. “This is going to be a very important PR exercise,” Liz told ...

COLM SHALVEY Stephen McKenna claimed the WBC International Silver Super Welterweight title by stopping Joe Laws in a wild three-round battle in Barnsley that has been described as the “fight of the year”. As part of the Zak Chelli vs Callum Simpson undercard at Oakwell Stadium, McKenna and Laws brought a bumper crowd to their feet as they traded blows in an all-action first round that saw both fighters suffer knockdowns. After a high-profile build-up, McKenna looked set to take care of business very early on when he had his ...