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The evenings are getting shorter, the air is getting cooler and the warm glow of Christmas is nearly upon us… so wrap up warm and come to Monaghan Town for the big Christmas Lights Switch-On on Sunday November 24. Santa Claus will be taking time out from his busy workshop to visit Monaghan this Sunday with Rudolf the Reindeer and lots of festive friends. It’s time to get your letters written and get them posted in Santa’s Post Box when you visit the Grotto. Santa’s grotto will be available for ...

Clones Community Forum and the Cassandra Hand Rose Committee would like to extend a massive thank you to the businesses, sponsors and individuals who supported the sixth annual Cassandra Hand Rose competition held recently. Without their continued support this event would not be possible. Congratulations to Kerry Nolan, sponsored by the Peace Link who emerged as the worthy winner. To each Rose and their beautiful Rosebuds, thank you for taking part in the event. The day began for the girls at the Cassandra Hand Centre with ice-breakers and if the ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS It was a case of ‘two out of three ain’t bad’ for Monaghan’s representatives in the AIB Ulster Club Football Championships last weekend. Blackhill’s win in the junior decider set the tone and stretched Monaghan clubs’ winning run in the 2019 series to five games in all, before Clontibret and Magheracloone experienced mixed fortunes in their semifinal ties. Monaghan’s wait for a first Ulster Club SFC title since 1991 goes on after Naomh Cónaill continued Donegal teams’ resurgent record in the competition by grinding out a narrow win ...

COLM SHALVEY reports The Paul Kerr Cup is back in Co Monaghan after Blackhill won the AIB Ulster Club JFC Final in some style at Healy Park last Saturday. Having recovered from a string of county JFC Final defeats to finally get over the line in 2016, Blackhill went on to lose by a point in this fixture against Rock from Tyrone that November. A possibility of a rematch with the three-time Ulster JFC winners was ended when Buncrana ousted Rock in a semi-final penalty shoot-out, which saw the Donegal side ...

Raids carried out by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) at premises in Co Monaghan last week were not directly linked to the investigation of the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants as they were being smuggled into a port in Essex, the Gardaí stated. However, premises belonging to individuals who have become suspects in the Essex incident were among those targeted during the CAB operation. It is understood the individuals concerned have been under investigation since last autumn in connection with alleged smuggling of cigarettes, alcohol and illegal drug substances. The ...

Suspect dies in England as his home is searched There have been more calls for policing in the border area to be stepped up following the abduction and brutal assault on a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, Kevin Lunney in September. Mr Lunney has now returned to work at the company’s headquarters in Co. Fermanagh. Meanwhile the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar held a private meeting with the QIH directors on Sunday following his attendance at the Remembrance Sunday service in Ennisikillen. John McCartin later welcomed the Taoiseach’s interest in the matter. He ...

The Irish Exporters Association, the voice of the Export Industry in Ireland, on Friday night announced the winners of the 2019 Export Industry Awards. Silver Hill Duck, Combilift & Entekra all scooped awards in their respective categories making it a clean sweep for Monaghanbased companies. With 12 high-profile companies winning awards across the 12 categories, this year saw one of the most competitive processes in the Awards’ history. Now in its 19th year, the Irish Exporters Association’s Export Industry Awards is the premier event for recognising the achievements of Irish ...

By Veronica Corr Mullan Lighting celebrated ten years in business at the village’s historic mill on Friday morning last, by announcing plans to expand their premises, which the company hoped would lead to the creation of thirty further jobs over the next two years. Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys was the keynote speaker and Julie Sinnamon from Enterprise Ireland also spoke on the day. This is a huge success story for a small village, which not so long ago only had one resident, who is happily still ...

Combilift is a major exporter of material handling solutions equipment to South Africa. To mark exports of over €3 million per year, Combilift hosted an event at Nandos Warehouse in Johannesburg, during which the South African company took delivery of their new Combilift Aisle Masters. The event took place as part of the Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to South Africa and Kenya this week, led by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys T.D. Nando’s is a South African restaurant chain, specialising in Portuguese food such as periperi style ...

• Michael McDonnell THE prospect of a new supermarket outlet in Cootehill took a very visible and tangible step forward when extensive site clearance works adjacent to St Michael’s Church at Station Road — and reaching back to the rear of properties at the north-eastern end of the main street — began last week and were continuing as we went to print. The Northern Standard has had it confirmed from reliable sources that the Aldi chain is in the process of buying a site at the location, subject to planning ...