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Full house in the Garage theatre for a night packed with entertainment, laughter and memories. The large crowd that packed into the Garage Theatre last Friday night for Monaghan GAA’s 50 years of Scór celebration were treated to a night full of entertainment from clubs all over county Monaghan. The concert featured past and present Scór participants, former All- Ireland winners as well as some of the up and coming talent in the county. Among the dignitaries present on the night were Aodán Ó Braonáin (National Scór Chairperson) and Paula ...

By COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s senior footballers received a short-term boost and a potentially much longer-lasting blow this week. The bad news came via a serious injury that Darren Hughes suffered in Scotstown’s Shoe City Senior Football League game against Ballybay last Sunday. A fractured ankle is expected to keep the experienced Scotstown man out for 10-12 weeks and with Monaghan’s resources in the midfield area already being stretched during 2019 to date, particularly in the long-term absence of 2018 All-Star nominee Niall Kearns, this will be a headache for Malachy ...

JOHN GRAHAM reports A golden Jubilee is a landmark date in any walk of life, or in any organisation and the golden Jubilee of Scor in Monaghan was celebrated with a special Gala concert in the Garage Theatre, Monaghan, on Friday evening last. From its humble beginnings back in 1969 as a movement to promote the Irish language and Irish culture within the GAA, Scor has grown to be a major part of GAA activities in practically every club in the country and last Friday night’s concert was a ...

Colm Shalvey Reports Scotstown 2-13 Ballybay 2-15 Ballybay got their first win of this year’s SFL when they won this repeat of the 2018 SFC Final away to Scotstown last Sunday. The county champions fielded ten of the team that won that final in a game marred by an early injury to county man Darren Hughes during a first half that ended with Ballybay five points clear. Scotstown rallied to cut the gap to one during the second half, but they couldn’t avoid back-to-back narrow defeats, while Ballybay (who had drawn with Carrickmacross ...

Michael Fisher Fire damaged a building at the Monaghan County Council waste facility at Scotch Corner near Annyalla early yesterday morning. A brief statement by the Council said the fire, which was attended by the fire brigade, was confined to the office building at the site. Gardaí also attended the scene. A spokesperson said the damage done by the fire had not impacted on the landfill and recycling facility, which is continuing to operate as usual. The owner of the adjoining McElvaney waste and recycling company said it had not ...

By Veronica Corr There were two very similar motions of urgent business before Monday’s afternoon’s meeting of Monaghan County Council, one from Sinn Féin, introduced by Councillor Colm Carthy and the other from Independent Councillor Paudge Connolly. Since the two were on the same subject, i.e. transport charges for people using the collection and drop-off service from HSE Day Care Centres, Independent Councillor Connolly seconded Cllr. Carthy’s motion. The motion of urgent business that was unananimously supported read: “Monaghan County Council calls on the HSE to immediately reverse their decision ...

Protestors came from County Monaghan, Tyrone and beyond to attend a demonstration at the border at Moybridge outside Aughnacloy on Saturday, organised by Border Communities Against Brexit. A range of speakers gave their insightful and informative views on the current Brexit situation and the wider implications and threats for all members of border communities. Well-known local community leaders John Connolly from Connons near Clones and John Moyna from Knockatallon gave their views on the issue. Solicitor Niall Murphy from Belfast who was one of the organisers of the recent “Beyond ...

Michael Fisher Monaghan based LacPatrick Cooperative Society Limited and Lakeland Dairies Co-operative Society Limited have created history by formally completing a merger of the two societies. The new society is to be called Lakeland Dairies Co-operative Society Limited, and will be known as ‘Lakeland Dairies’. A transitional board has been established, including LacPatrick and Lakeland board members, to cover the initial 12- months period after the merger. The completion of the merger has been welcomed by the Irish Farmers’ Association. At the first board meeting of the new Society on ...

By Patsy McArdle A major garda investigation continued in Castleblayney yesterday (Wed) after an ATM cash machine was ripped from the front of the AIB branch in the town’s Main Street during the early hours of the morning and an undisclosed amount of cash taken. The raid on the Castleblayney AIB cash machine was the latest in a series of similar raids on both sides of the border. Gardaí were alerted to the theft from the front wall and window of the bank at around 3 a. m and came ...

Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan- Monaghan Niamh Smyth has said the government are putting lives at risk in their treatment of ambulance service personnel who are striking this week. Today members of The National Ambulance Service Representative Association (NASRA) which is a branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) are involved in industrial action. Deputy Smyth said, “Today will be the fifth day of strike action for the ambulance personnel. I have been engaging with those….