Articles in the General News Category

KEVIN ÓG CARNEY reports Monaghan GAA has always been a great supporter of Scór in all its facets. Of course, success only comes around through hard work and in that regard the very hard working Monaghan Scór committee deserves great kudos for their latest production; the 2020 Scór Sinsir finals. Fifty one years on from its inception nationally, Scór is still very much a thriving entity of the GAA in Monaghan as was evidenced by the efforts put in by the county’s clubs at the finals last weekend. The 2019 Acorn ...

Monaghan chase crucial points against Mayo COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY After a one-point loss, a win and a dramatic draw, Monaghan’s Allianz National Football League Division One campaign reaches a pivotal stage with this Sunday’s fourth-round game at home to Mayo. Monaghan and Mayo are two of the four teams deadlocked on three points after as many games in a tightly-packed table where just a single point separates seven sides. Monaghan will be fairly satisfied with their performances so far, albeit with a nagging sense of having left points behind them in both ...

37 Seats in New Dáil as Discussions Start about Government Formation Matt Carthy and Pauline Tully Elected in Cavan Monaghan Michael Fisher reports from the count centre in Cavan “Things are never going to be the same. There is a huge demand for change.” A jubilant Matt Carthy summed up the mood of the Sinn Féin supporters as he topped the poll in Cavan Monaghan and was elected on the first count, soon to be followed by his party colleague Pauline Tully. It was a brilliant election campaign by Sinn Féin locally ...

Garda strategy is working says Chief Superintendent The expedient arrest of five suspects and the recovery of the stolen property following a robbery at a Monaghan Town mobile phone outlet at the weekend showed that the strategy being employed by the Gardaí to deal with this form of crime was proving effective, Garda Chief Superintendent John O’Reilly told Tuesday’s meeting of the Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee. Five men were arrested after an estimated €50,000 worth of stock was taken from the 3 mobile phone retail outlet at Church Square in ...

Peter Hughes The urgent need to provide additional transport resources to the Gardaí in Monaghan and Cavan was emphasised to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris by Fianna Fáil member of Monaghan Co Council Raymond Aughey on Tuesday. Councillor Aughey availed of Commissioner Harris’ presence at a meeting of the Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee to forcefully make the case for an additional ten patrol cars to be allocated to the local force, citing concerns about Garda transport resources voiced by Chief Superintendent John O’Reilly at recent JPC meetings. “We can’t expect ...

Peter Hughes Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee decided on Tuesday to launch an information campaign on the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs after being informed that midmorning Garda checkpoints had found that three lorry drivers – one in Co Monaghan and two in Co Cavan – were driving their vehicles with traces of illegal drugs still in their systems. A campaign to convey the message that illegal drugs such as cannabis can remain in one’s system for up to 30 days was advocated by the Chairperson ...

On Tuesday February 11, The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) hosted the always highly anticipated IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards, now in its twelfth year, at the new location of Twenty Two, South Anne Street, Dublin. The short list of nominees were selected by over 13,500 IMRO members with a public vote then awarding the National Live Music Venue of the Year 2019 accolade to Coughlan’s Live Bar and Music Venue, Cork. Castleblayney’s Íontas Theatre was presented with the IMRO Ulster Live Music Venue of the Year ...

‘O’Duffy gave orders to light the fuse. The explosion went off successfully. There was a shower of slates and paper floating over the area’. This quote from one of the veterans who was present on the night that the Monaghan Brigade of the IRA, under the command of Eoin O’Duffy, successfully attacked a Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks at Ballytrain, south west Monaghan in the early morning of Sunday, February 15th 1920, marked the beginning of hostilities in Monaghan. The War of Independence had already begun in many parts of the ...

Peter Hughes The entry of a second insurance provider into the arena of childcare in Ireland was emphasised by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone in correspondence to Monaghan Co Council circulated at the February meeting of the local authority – a subject given topical resonance with the national day of protest staged by the Irish early years sector two days later. Minister Zappone was responding to an urgent business motion proposed by the Sinn Féin councillors at the January meeting of the Council and unanimously adopted. This ...

Somewhere in the aftermath of a General Election, someone always says it, either with the weary voice of the defeated or with the nightingale thrill that fills the throat of the victorious: “The people have spoken.” The electorate who have significantly changed the established landscape of Irish representative politics by their casting of ballots on Saturday last to determine the composition of the 33rd Dáil have certainly had their say. But what exactly is it they are saying, and how likely is it that their wishes and aspirations for how ...