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Boss Kieran said Magheracloone ‘didn’t have training facilities of our own’ for first six months of season Colm Shalvey reports Magheracloone have made light of the loss of their own playing facilities to sit top of the IFL, as well as being through to Sunday’s McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling Intermediate Football Championship Final. Team manager James Kieran said: “It was certainly a factor for the first six months because we didn’t have any training facilities of our own. We were doing a lot of travelling and we were very dependent on the ...

Jubilation, celebration and congratulation were general throughout Co Monaghan this week following the announcement on Monday that the North Monaghan village of Glaslough had been chosen as the overall winner of the national Tidy Towns competition for 2019. Glaslough was adjudged the best of a record 918 entries for this year’s SuperValu-sponsored competition and also received the award for Ireland’s Tidiest Village for the second year in a row. The village, which previously won the national title in 1978, was awarded 346 marks by the adjudicators, one more than Blackrock, ...

By Veronica Corr Market Square Shopping Centre was a hive of activity on Monday afternoon, as Carrickmacross Tidy Towns Committee unveiled Ireland’s first return/deposit reverse vending machine, having just returned victoriously from a ceremony in Dublin’s Helix Theatre where they took home the town’s eighth successive gold medal in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2019. Although it was an abysmal day weather-wise in the picturesque town, there was no raining on the committee’s parade and thankfully the launch was indoors. The machine is located inside the back doors of Market ...

Michael Fisher A new Garda Armed Support Unit began operating on Monday in the border area from its base in Cavan town. Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, and Fine Gael TD for Cavan Monaghan, Heather Humphreys, was among the first to welcome the addition of this resource for tackling crime in the area, especially in the wake of what she said was the recent horrific attack on Fermanagh businessman Kevin Lunney. A Garda spokesperson said the ASU unit for Cavan and Monaghan has been introduced to provide support to ...

With 29 days to go until Brexit, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, yesterday urged businesses to secure approval for the Government’s €300 million Brexit Loan Scheme now, in advance of October 31st, to be ready for the aftermath of a potential No Deal scenario. The Scheme is designed to address working capital challenges brought about by Brexit. Loans of up to €1.5 million are available at a rate of 4% or less, with loans of up to €500,000 available on an unsecured basis. Loan eligibility ...

The coming to an end this week of the long wait by the picturesque and pristine North Monaghan village of Glaslough to replicate the national Tidy Towns success they enjoyed in 1978 has precipitated great pride and jubilation in Co Monaghan. The 41 years since Glaslough’s fabled first triumph in the national contest and their second have wrought enormous change in both the physical and social landscape of Ireland. Back in the 1970s, the Tidy Towns event fostered best practice in an admirable but relatively narrow field of environmental endeavour, handing ...

At a meeting last year Karolina Biezunska suggested that the club consider a photography weekend to her home country of Poland. A small committee consisting of John Nutley, Ryan Coyle, Brendan Mc Crudden and Karolina was formed and the fruits of their labour saw twenty four members and friends descend on the city of Bydgoszcz two weekends ago. With a population of 350, 000 the city is the eighth largest in Poland and is located on the Brda and Vistula rivers. Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city and with Karolina ...

Sinn Féin Dáil Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan/Monaghan) and Imelda Munster (Louth) jointly introduced new legislation in the Dáil last week that is designed to stamp out the practice of charging medical card-holding nursing home residents for medical needs and services that they are entitled to under the terms of the medical card scheme. Deputy Munster stated: “I have had numerous cases in my constituency clinics where elderly people are being charged for basic medical equipment and therapies, despite having a legal entitlement to them free of charge under the ...

Sinn Féin MEP, Matt Carthy, joined the chorus of outrage this week to the British government’s suggestion of developing customs posts along the border as part of its effort to replace the ‘backstop’. The Monaghan based representative described any such arrangements as “absolutely unacceptable”. Speaking from Brussels on Tuesday the Monaghan based MEP said: “This is a ludicrous proposition from the British Government that will be rejected by communities on both sides of the border. It vindicates those of us who argued that the issues pertaining to the border in ...

Castleshane man John Moen did Ireland proud once again when for the 3rd year in succession he was the first Irish finisher in the 2019 BMW Berlin Inline – Skating Marathon last Saturday afternoon. In a race with over 6,000 competitors from every corner of the globe entered and mainly dominated by professional Olympic speed skaters, John Moen who only took up the sport four years ago gave a rousing display for the Irish supporters by leading the Irish contingent home in a time of 1 hour 58mins 11 seconds ...