Articles in the General News Category

COLM SHALVEY Monaghan teams thrived at the All-Ireland 7s in Naomh Mearnóg and Kilmacud Crokes last weekend. Emyvale, O’Neill Shamrocks and Castleblayney U-14s all brought All-Ireland titles home to top off an historic weekend for Ladies Football, which saw another record attendance at Sunday’s finals triple-header at Croke Park. Emyvale claimed their third All-Ireland Senior Sevens Ladies Football Championship title following a hectic day of action at Naomh Mearnóg and St. Sylvester’s GAA Clubs in Dublin on Saturday. The north-Monaghan club delivered their first All-Ireland Sevens success since 2015, following ...

Years are passing us by so quickly, it’s eight years since Denise Toner returned to the competitive running scene, and in that time she never could have dreamed of the feats she has achieved in to this point in her career. Back to the beginning, she had dominated the local road racing circuit in the early years, progressing on to the Cross Country where she won an Ulster Intermediate title in her second year. In 2014 she returned to track running and in 2015 after winning the National Indoor 800m ...

MONAGHAN TOWN RUNNERS Pictured are 22 of the 40 Monaghan town runners who are training hard for this years Dublin City marathon. This is the 40th year of the marathon and in to mark this occasion Monaghan town runners have decided to get 40 runners to take on the 26.2 mile challenge. They also hope to raise some funds for local suicide prevention charity SOSAD. Please support these local athletes and give them a few euros as they fundraise in the coming weeks. A fundraising event will take place soon-updates to ...

McQuaid Upholstery from Crumlin, Silverstream, Co Monaghan recently received the prestigious Best Irish Manufactured Product award for the second year running at the Irish Furniture and Homewares Show in Dublin. To come top of over 200 companies is a significant achievement for the small Monaghan enterprise, whose representatives Paul and Seamus McQuaid are pictured accepting their 2019 award from Mark Gannon, Show President. “We are delighted to have received this award for the second year in succession,” Paul McQuaid stated. “The success is down to the hard work and commitment ...

Music fans and town centre hospitality venues alike reaped a rich dividend from last weekend’s Harvest Time Blues festival in Monaghan. The John Fairhurst Trio, pictured by John Nutley in the throes of their Saturday night Squealing Pig performance, were just one of a stellar selection of blues acts from the US, Europe and much closer to home that brought the crowds flocking to participating hostelries and the Diamond Marquee. The launch of the festival on Thursday night saw a spectacular arrival from Jimmy Cornett and the Deadmen, who completed ...

By Veronica Corr Border Communities Against Brexit (BCAB) held a public meeting and exhibition in Clones on Sunday evening last. Before the meeting, the function room of the Creighton Hotel was packed to capacity with people of all ages from those who remembered the realities of the original hard Border, to toddlers in pushchairs. At the outset, BCAB stated that it was a broad organisation with no political allegiance. Public representatives from across the political spectrum were invited but some had sent apologies citing other engagements. There was a predominant ...

Peter Hughes “I wonder why there is a fear about talking about a United Ireland?” pondered aloud Sinn Féin’s Pat Treanor at the September meeting of Monaghan Co Council in reference to the dissenting voices among Council members from other political orientations that were heard during a debate on a motion he had tabled concerning Irish reunification. The motion was defeated 6-7 on a show of hands vote when it was put to the meeting. It read: “The discussion on Brexit has refocused on the issue of partition and a ...

Heather Humphreys, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, and Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan, met two key Monaghan companies on a trade mission to Nashville and New York this week. She also took the opportunity to explore the cultural links between Ulster and Tennessee. Minister Humphreys said: “I was delighted to put Monaghan companies at the centre of my trade mission to Nashville and New York this week. “The purpose of the trade mission was twofold – to showcase and support Irish companies exporting into the US and to promote ...

It was announced yesterday that R&S Printers Limited in Monaghan Town is to close at the end of October with the loss of seven jobs. The company has issued the following media statement in relation to the closure: It is with deep regret that the management of R&S Printers Limited, The Diamond, Monaghan have to announce that the company is to close at the end of October. The decision has been made reluctantly and after an extensive process in which all other options available to the company thoroughly investigated. The ...

Peter Hughes The next phase of development of the Ulster Canal Greenway, which will link Smithboro in Co Monaghan to Middletown in Co Armagh, was planned to be completed and open by the end of 2020, Project Manager Anthony Morrow told the September meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Mr Morrow informed councillors that €4.9 million in INTERREG funding had been secured for this cross-Border project, which would provide 22 km of greenway along with an additional 2 km along the Monaghan Town by-pass. An integrated design team had been appointed ...