Articles in the General News Category

— Campbell secures commitment from contractors to facilitate Muckno Mania By Veronica Corr At the outset of Tuesday morning’s Carrickmacross/ Castleblayney Municipal District meeting, Cllr. Aidan Campbell asked Monaghan County Council’s Director of Services, Paul Clifford, if there was any further update on the Market House, Castleblayney, in addition to the report which had been given to the meeting of the full Local Authority the previous day. Mr. Clifford said that the report given to all 18 elected members the previous day by Chief Executive Eamonn O’Sullivan was the latest information ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE “public scandal” over a ‘Group Home’ in Carrickmacross lying idle—and unused—some two years after it was completed to serve specific accommodations needs, has led to a call this week from South Monaghan Sinn Féin councillor Colm Carthy for immediate action to bring the premises into use, in accordance with an earlier assurance by the HSE that it would be in use by the end of the second quarter of 2019 Cllr. Carthy, who also raised the matter at a County Council meeting on Monday, said this ...

Michael Fisher The Central Statistics Office has published new data on household income. The report examines income for households and individuals in Ireland for 2016, broken down by county and by electoral division. Income is also assessed across the areas of housing, health, education, occupation and commuting. Income has been capped at €200,000 at individual level to remove the top 1% of income earners for confidentiality purposes. The median gross income for households was €45,256 and ranged from €32,259 in Donegal to €66,203 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. The equivalent figure for ...

President Higgins and his wife Sabina hosted a special concert last Friday evening in Dublin in celebration of Irish country music. The event was also to acknowledge the work being undertaken by various organisations in fostering, and developing, strong rural communities. The concert is part of a series of garden parties at Áras an Uachtaráin to celebrate particular people and organisations who work on themes that the President wants to highlight. Organisations invited to the concert included a range of rural community organisations as well as national organisations such as ...

MINISTER for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys, Monaghan this week opened the third round of the Regional Enterprise Development Fund at an event at Cavan Digital Hub. The fund is worth €45 million, and local groups in Cavan and Monaghan are being encouraged to work together to come up with ideas and submit applications in order to benefit from it. Minister Humphreys also launched a Feasibility Fund of up to €15,000 per eligible project to help groups develop high-quality applications. The minister said she was delighted to announce the ...

Monaghan crash out ot All-Ireland Qualifiers while Counihan’s squad get what they deserve COLM SHALVEY COMMENTARY ARMAGH 2-17 MONAGHAN 1-12 Monaghan’s stop-start 2019 campaign came to an early end with last Saturday’s All- Ireland SFC Round 2 Qualifier loss to Armagh. On the day where the curtain came down on Malachy O’Rourke’s seven years in charge of the Monaghan team, the hosts fell away in the second half of their third local derby of this year’s championship. An Armagh side gaining some momentum after encouraging performances in the Ulster series proved too potent on ...

McEnaney happy to have clean bill of health for Breffni match JOHN GRAHAM Monaghan U20 football boss Seamus McEnaney says seeing his squad come through this week “unscathed” is the best he can have hoped for ahead of the Farney County’s provincial championship tilt with Cavan this weekend. McEnaney and co travel to Kingspan Breffni this Sunday (4pm) determined to overcome a Cavan side who are fancied to book their place in the semi-final of the competition. The former senior Monaghan manager acknowledges it hasn’t been easy for his players or his think-tank ...

Surveys on hen harrier and curlew movements were insufficient and out of date… Lack of information on route of electricity grid connection to Lisdrum Michael Fisher Planners have turned down an appeal by a County Cavan based energy company to make a number of amendments to a proposed wind farm with seven turbines in the Carrickroe area, on the edges of Sliabh Beagh. The technical amendments included the realignment of some internal access tracks and the relocation of a substation, along with changes to the design of the hardstanding areas for some ...

Michael Fisher Completion of the North South electricity interconnector is being signalled for the final quarter of 2023. The controversial EirGrid project, which still requires planning approval in Northern Ireland, would involve the construction of a high voltage line with 400 pylons across five counties from Meath, Cavan and Monaghan to Armagh and finishing near The Moy in Co. Tyrone. The project has been included as part of the government’s climate action plan to tackle climate breakdown, published on Monday by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Richard ...

Michael Fisher “We will try to bring the best design to it. This is good news for the development of the border region. The N2 road upgrade projects will enhance key North/South and regional connectivity and improve road safety.” This was the view of Patricia Monahan, Director of Services for Monaghan County Council, when she spoke to The Northern Standard on Tuesday during one of the public consultation sessions on the N2 national road scheme from Clontibret to the border near Aughnacloy. Another opportunity for the public to review the ...