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Peter Hughes Fianna Fáil will challenge strongly for a seat in the Co Monaghan portion of the Cavan/Monaghan constituency in the General Election set to take place next year, party leader Micheál Martin told The Northern Standard on Thursday last. Mr Martin gave an exclusive interview to this newspaper at the start of a full day of engagements in the Monaghan area which included a visit to the Monaghan Education Campus and to the national Tidy Towns title-winning village of Glaslough. While meeting the people on the ground has been ...

Peter Hughes The Border Communities Against Brexit campaign group announced this week that they were planning major Border demonstrations on Wednesday October 16 next in advance of the last EU Council summit (taking place the following day) before the planned October 31 departure date for the United Kingdom from the European Union. “The most recent Brexit proposals put forward by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are completely unworkable and unacceptable,” BCAB Spokesperson Damien McGenity told the Northern Standard. “As the date for the critical European Council summit meeting on October ...

Peter Hughes Brexit was at the top of Ireland’s enterprise agenda and was the most significant economic challenge of the last 40 years, the members of Monaghan Co Council were told on Monday. The county’s Head of Enterprise John McEntegart said that Brexit represented a huge challenge for Irish companies as the UK was the largest market for indigenous business, accounting for €7.5 billion or 37% of indigenous exports, and 15% of all exports. The UK, particularly Northern Ireland, was often the first export market for Irish companies. In a ...

A 57-YEAR-OLD Monaghan town native, well known and respected in business and voluntary circles in the area, has been charged with stealing over €143,000 from his local church in a series of thefts alleged to have taken place over a period of seven and a half years. David Drum, who is currently living at 3 Bridge Crescent, Parnell Park, Dundalk, Co Louth is facing 93 charges alleging that he stole €143,215 from St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan town on dates between September 2009 and February 2017. Most of the charges ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil Senator Robbie Gallagher said this week that confirmation of two additional limited stop services from Bus Eireann was welcome – but significant issues remained with the service on Route 32 Letterkenny-Dublin and back, serving Monaghan. Senator Gallagher said he was told of the new services after he had contacted the company with regard to the complaints of constituents. “Local people have complained of an “abysmal service” provided by Bus Eireann on Route 32, where the bus scheduled to arrive in Castleblayney at 17.40 arrived a full hour ...

Peter Hughes Funding for the development of an e-commerce cluster for retailers in Co Monaghan was announced by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys TD on Friday. The initiative – which is to receive €56,640 – was one of 16 projects nationwide which will benefit from €2.5 million being made available under the 2019/2020 Local Enterprise Office Competitive Fund. The successful applicants were announced by Minister Humphreys at a gathering hosted by the Monaghan Local Enterprise Office in the M:TEK I building at Knockaconny in the presence of ...

Ongoing uncertainty about the nature of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union had already impacted on the tourism industry in Ireland through reduced visitor expenditure, it was claimed this week. In a statement, the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland said that CSO figures had revealed that British tourism expenditure in Ireland continued to decrease as Brexit uncertainty intensified ahead of the October deadline. The statement added: “The results reveal an overall decline of 4.1% in British tourism expenditure for the first half of the year compared with 2018, ...

Michael Fisher Video game developer Terry Cavanagh from Tydavnet has launched a new creation that could prove to be his most successful so far, judging by the great reviews it has received in America and nearer home. Dicey Dungeons is a card and dice game that follows six quirky characters through procedurally generated episodes of a game show hosted by Lady Luck. It features some creatures from Irish mythology along the way. The product was released on 13th August for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux personal computers. Terry (35) says ...

A number of Cavan and Monaghan firms will be amongst one hundred engineering firms from throughout Ireland attending a major engineering trade event in Monaghan next Wednesday (16 October). Following the success of last year ’s event, the EENGINEX Engineering Meet the Buyer is returning to the Combilift factory complex in Monaghan, and will offer engineering firms the opportunity to engage in prearranged meetings with key buyers and other suppliers from throughout Ireland and Europe. The event is being organised by Enterprise Europe Network through the Local Enterprise Offices in ...

Colm Shalvey Blackhill joined three other clubs – including beaten finalists Drumhowan – at the top of the JFC roll of honour when they won last Sunday’s absorbing Universal Graphics Junior Football Championship decider in Aughnamullen. Blackhill experienced heartbreak in this fixture between 2013 and 2015, with two final replay defeats sandwiching a narrow loss to Drumhowan, but they bounced back to win their fifth JFC title in ’16. The Emeralds were relegated from intermediate last year, but they put a slow start to the current campaign behind ….