Articles in the General News Category

The energy was high at the INNOV8! conference on Tuesday 3rd March, which took place as part of Local Enterprise Week 2020. Hosted by Silver Hill Duck at their Centre of Excellence in Emyvale, delegates and speakers alike were actively engaged throughout the event by the energetic MC for the event – Dr. Andrew Lynch of Irish Manufacturing Research. The focus of the morning was the exploration of the practicalities associated with introducing innovative practices into all areas of a business. With real-life stories about introducing innovation from business leaders ...

Company Claims Greater Interconnectivity Can Cut Costs for Consumers Michael Fisher As the EirGrid Chief Executive Mark Foley met the environmental committee of Meath County Council this week and prepares to address Monaghan Councillors at their April meeting, an article published last week in a section of the Irish Times website that carries sponsored stories by business ‘partners’ including EirGrid has claimed that plans for a new North-South interconnector received a significant boost with the restoration in January of the Stormont Executive. The story, paid for by EirGrid and with no ...

In the interest of public health, Monaghan Town Runners have taken the decision to POSTPONE their annual St. Patrick’s Day 5k run/2.5k walk in aid of CROCUS. Please spread the word. We will endeavour to reschedule this event later on in the year.

By Veronica Corr World Down Syndrome Day takes place on March 21st and to celebrate the wonderful children who have this condition, three organisations, Triona’s Tots, the Down Syndrome Centre and Team 21 Tots, came together to create a video which features some families from the North East, including local Annemarie Cassidy and her family, who are involved with the Down Syndrome Centre North East (DSCNE), based in Carrickmacross. Annemarie, her husband Paul and their four children Orlaith, Shane, Liam and Caolán (who celebrated his third birthday on Sunday) are featured ...

Peter Hughes The HSE has been asked to explain why a long awaited and badly needed group home facility for people with physical and sensory disabilities in Carrickmacross remains unopened – with no indication of when it is to be brought into use. The situation was branded “an embarrassment to the people of Carrickmacross and the people of Co Monaghan” by Fianna Fáil local public representative P J O’Hanlon at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Sinn Féin’s Colm Carthy, who has been raising the issue on a monthly basis ...

Peter Hughes A male pedestrian died from his injuries after being struck by an articulated lorry at Brandum outside Monaghan Town on Saturday morning last. The man, in his 20s, was one of seven people killed on Irish roads over the course of the weekend. A number of other people sustained serious injuries in the accidents. On Friday night, the driver and passenger of a car travelling in Co Cavan were killed in a road crash. Both of the vehicle’s occupants were aged in their 60s. They were pronounced dead ...

Peter Hughes The members of Monaghan Co Council voted overwhelmingly on Monday to ask the Government to give SIPO or the Standards in Public Office Commission powers to punish local authority members who contravened ethics legislation and their code of conduct. The Council was considering the SIPO report on its investigation of alleged contraventions of the Ethics in Public Office Act and the Local Government Act by Monaghan Councillor Hugh McElvaney. SIPO found that Councillor McElvaney had made four contraventions of the legislation governing the conduct of public representatives by ...

Peter Hughes Monaghan Co Council has decided to hold a briefing for its members in relation to the development of new local authority offices behind closed doors. Councillors will meet on the afternoon of Wednesday March 25th in committee to discuss a recommendation from its Office Accommodation Working Group. At Monday’s March meeting of the local authority, Independent councillor Paudge Connolly expressed reservations about the subject of a new Co Council HQ being discussed in a non-public forum. However, councillors who are part of the working group and officials of ...

Michael Fisher The Sunday Mass at St Dympna’s Church in Tydavnet was a special occasion for the oldest parishioner, Maggie McQuillan. It’s not often you find a Parish Priest leading the congregation in singing ‘Happy Birthday’, but it was a very appropriate gesture by Fr Stephen Joyce in marking the centenary of Maggie McQuillan from Tullygoney, who sat near the altar along with family members. Not since Pat Treanor from Doogary (who passed away in 2015) celebrated his centenary eight years ago has there been such excitement locally. Following Mass, ...

It was confirmed at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council that the local authority will meet with the Chief Executive of EirGrid, Mark Foley, at its monthly meeting on Monday April 6. Mr Foley has requested to meet with the Co Council to discuss EirGrid’s recently published Group Company Strategy, but the engagement is likely to focus predominantly on the controversial northsouth electricity interconnector project. Also at Monday’s meeting, correspondence was received from Cavan/Monaghan TDs Brendan Smith and Matt Carthy indicating their support for the campaign to have the interconnector ...