Articles in the General News Category

Peter Hughes Various components of the Co Monaghan Disability Network availed of a showcase opportunity at the forecourt of Monaghan Courthouse on Thursday morning last to show and tell the passing public a little about their talents and ambitions. The Ability Event, held on the verdant green space which has afforded many components of the North Monaghan community the opportunity to stage entertainments and presentations during the month of August, struck a resoundingly positive note. Different groups from within the network manned stalls displaying their craft abilities, projects they were ...

Inadequacies in the Bus Éireann transport provision for Monaghan were leading to instances where some intending passengers were being “left on the road”, Fianna Fáil councillor Raymond Aughey told Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Councillor Aughey had a motion adopted asking the Co Council including its Tourism Section to actively engage with Bus Éireann to address a number of issues. The FF representative’s motion called for improvement works to be carried out at the town’s bus station, noting that the toilet facilities were in need of particular attention. It ...

World Alzheimer Month takes place this December and, over the next four weeks, the Northern Standard will be focusing on a different aspect of dementia. This week, we take a look at the causes, signs and symptoms of dementia and what you can do to reduce your risk. The number of people living with dementia in Ireland is expected to more than double over the next 20 years – from 55,000 today to 113,000 by 2036. It is estimated that there are over 750 people living with dementia in Co ...

Rampant Clontibret win coveted Corn Gael Linn with power-packed display CLONTIBRET 4-13 CASTLEBLAYNEY 2-12 Colm Shalvey reports Clontibret senior camogie team have become renowned for ‘boxing above their weight’, especially in the past year when they became the first-ever Monaghan camogie team to reach a Junior All-Ireland final. However, nothing quite prepared the spectators heading to Pάirc Grattan on Sunday last, for the heavy defeat they would inflict on a highly fancied Castleblayney team, seeking to get their hands on the coveted Corn Gael Linn for the first time since 2016. Clontibret took the ...

John Graham reports CASTLEBLAYNEY 2-15 DOOHAMLET 2-12 Castleblayney got their senior championship aspirations back on track while dumping next door neighbours Doohamlet out of the ser i es, in this at times scrappy e ncounter th at nevertheless built to an excit ing finish in a close ly fought second-half in Clontibret on Saturday evening last. Castleblayney were the more dominant team in the first half at the end of which they led by 1-8 to 0-4, the goal by Brendan McElroy in th e twen tieth minute. Do ohamlet were a transf ...

By Veronica Corr It was confirmed last night (Wednesday) that the Drumgossatt Road (LP4900), which has been closed since before Christmas, was to reopen with immediate effect. The news was conveyed to the meeting of the Stakeholders’ Forum, which took place yesterday evening in Carrickmacross Civic Offices. The meeting was previously deferred because Monaghan County Council had referred the LP4900 issue to its insurers, Irish Public Bodies. (See Monaghan County Council’s statement on the matter in Carrickmacross News). The Local Authority’s announcement came in the aftermath of the unlawful removal ...

Monaghan man Tom Flannery has brought home a gold and silver medal from the World Transplant Games held at the athletics mecca of Gateshead in Newcastle. Part of the proud and highly successful Irish team feted when they emerged into the arrivals hall at Dublin Airport on Saturday afternoon last, lung transplant recipient Tom, a retired Garda Superintendent, declared: “When I stand back and think about everything and reflect on the health journey I have undertaken over the last few years, I am delighted.” Watched by family members, Tom secured ...

Michael Fisher Local beef farmers are becoming more and more exasperated as meat processors took action at the High Court in Dublin yesterday in an attempt to end pickets at meat plants. Several named individuals in the Beef Plan movement remain under threat of legal action from meat processors if they become involved in pickets at meat plants. ABP which has a plant in Clones and Dawn Meats secured temporary injunctions restraining named protesters, or anyone acting in concert with them or with knowledge of the court’s orders, from blockading ...

COMMITTED TO A LASTING PEACE Michael Fisher The government is committed to achieving a lasting peace on the island and will not allow the despicable actions of those who planted a bomb near Wattlebridge recently to deter that aim, according to the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD. She was speaking at a PEACE IV programme event at the Cavan County Museum in Ballyjamesduff on Sunday. She told a gathering that included former servicemen from the Irish Defence Forces and Northern Ireland that in the border region, people ...

The line from Shakespeare’s famous sonnet – “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date” – came to mind at Rossmore Park, Monaghan on Tuesday when children, before commencing the new school term later in the week, took one last opportunity to enjoy the recently opened playground facility at the amenity. © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard