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May 8 was a hugely auspicious occasion for local Monaghan cancer support charity Crocus when they received a donation of $72,000 from The Rockville Center, (RVC) St Patrick’s Day Parade charity, based on Long Island, New York. “The Parade that Cares and Shares” has raised over $1,620,000 since its inception in 1997 and shares its successful fund-raising with 3 worthy charities, which are national, Irish, and locally focused. Crocus Monaghan were the grateful recipients this year. Martin Maguire, founder of Crocus’s Men’s Den which is part of the organisation’s Cancer ...

Catherine Martin has stepped down as Deputy Leader of the Green Party in the wake of the departure of party leader Eamon Ryan. The Carrickmacross woman, a TD for Dublin Rathdown and the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, was initially tipped as Mr Ryan’s likely successor but in a media statement she ruled herself out of the leadership race and said she had decided to “step back” from the party’s deputy leadership. She said: “My warm wishes and gratitude to Eamon for his dedicated leadership of ...

By Veronica Corr Ben Ryan from Emyvale jets off to the USA today, Thursday on the working holiday of a lifetime. The 21-year-old college student won an internship with Habitat for Humanity, through Project Children’s legacy project. He found out about the internship through Monaghan native Catherine Flood, who is a volunteer with Project Children in New York. After going through the application process, Ben was delighted to have been accepted for the eight week programme. When asked if he was excited about the trip, he exclaimed: “I cannot wait!” ...

By Veronica Corr Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin, alongside Waterways Ireland, yesterday, Wednesday, officially opened Phase 2 of the Ulster Canal redevelopment project following a €28.4 million investment. Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys, Minister for Heritage Darragh O’Brien and Minister for State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan were also there, accompanied by two elected representatives from the Northern Ireland Assembly. Yesterday, Wednesday was a glorious day, as Mother Nature pulled out all the stops to ensure that Clones and the Ulster Canal Marina were drenched in ...

Monaghan-based digital health start-up Spryt, which uses AI to predict clinical noshows, has emerged victorious at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Europe Startup Pitchfest competition finals held in Rome. Founded in 2017, Spryt was one of two finalists in the category of start-ups that according to organisers are revolutionising workflows in the medical space with automation. The other finalist was Briya, another digital health start-up based in Israel and the US. Co-founder and chief operations officer Neill Dunwoody said that he and the Spryt team were “surprised” ...

By Veronica Corr The launch of the 71st Tydavnet Parish Show took place in the aforementioned village’s community centre on Monday evening. Tydavnet Show have had a rough deal over the years, when it came to the heavens opening, so who better to launch this year’s campaign than Met Eireann meteorologist? Gerry Murphy is better known as RTÉ’s weatherman, and he just so happens to hail from a South Monaghan farming background. \ After what was a busy weekend with Local Elections, Minister Heather Humphreys, was in attendance, with her Parliamentary ...

By Veronica Corr Following Friday’s Local Elections, the stage was set for a weekend of political theatre as the count to find out who would be the elected members for the next term of Monaghan County Council began in Sean McDermott’s Sports Centre, Threemilehouse. The two-day count, capably overseen by Local Returning Officer Carmel O’Hare, elected eighteen public representatives from three electoral areas, to Monaghan County Council, fourteen familiar faces and four new ones. A total of 36 candidates, from main and smaller parties, as well as those with no ...

PETER HUGHES Significant industrial expansion in the Annahagh area of Monaghan will be facilitated by land acquisition developments detailed at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. The elected members gave their approval to the acquisition by Combilift of two plots of land in local authority ownership in the area, and the reciprocal acquisition by the Co Council of a separate piece of ground from the forklift manufacturer. The agreement will facilitate expansion plans by Combilift and open up nearby land for future industrial development and job creation by other ...

PETER HUGHES Flower petals, poetry and prayer, quietude and plaintive music and song interwove with words to fashion a poignant tribute to those who died and those who suffered, those still suffering trauma and lack of closure, from the bombing of Monaghan Town in 1974. At the precise moment 50 years before when the detonation of a car bomb stopped the heartbeat of the town, Church Square fell silent at 6.58 pm on Friday evening last to the more gentle sound of church bells. Silence descended too after President Michael ...

Much regret in Monaghan Town and over a wide area greeted the news of the passing at the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin on Saturday last, May 18 of Nóra Mac Cinna (née Holland), Leacht Lorcáin, Muineachán. A noted educationalist, campaigner, advocate, and enthusiast for the Irish language, Nóra was an Old Cross Square and Monaghan Townswoman through and through, She spent her childhood with her paternal grandparents, Mary Ann and John James Holland, in the Gate Lodge of Monaghan Hospital. The streets of her beloved town were her playground ...