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Inniskeen poet Patrick Kavanagh went on the rampage in Dublin in 1938 when his childhood memoir ‘The Green Fool’ was not stocked in the window of some of the city’s well-known book shops, according to state papers just released. Kavanagh crossed swords with the poet and author Oliver St John Gogarty, who he referred as Buck Mulligan, the name of a character given to him by James Joyce in Ulysses. Gogarty took a wellpublicised libel action against Kavanagh when ‘The Green Fool’ was published and Kavanagh believed he was “dictating ...

The Co. Monaghan Men’s Sheds recently participated in a training programme on Use of Tools Health and Safety in their Sheds. The training class is part of the PEACE IV TEAM Project being delivered by Monaghan Integrated Development offering training and support to the Co. Monaghan Sheds. The project is supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB.) The Use of Tools Health and Safety training took place in each of the 5 sheds in Co. Monaghan, including Monaghan town, Clones, Ballybay, ...

“Our Taoiseach has proven yet again he is no friend to the working-class man or woman with his comments regarding the wealthiest communities caring for the less well-off,” Monaghan People Before Profit’s Paddy Grenham said in a statement to the Northern Standard this week. Mr Grenham continued: “As soon as it became apparent that this comment was going to bite him, the Taoiseach rephrased it to say that the property tax should be kept in the local areas where it’s paid. This speaks to his overall mentality – a lack ...

The soothsaying that traditionally goes on when one year turns into another has been in full swing over recent days, and in some respects its focus suggests that the months ahead will be preoccupied with much of the same concerns that came to define 2018 for the people of Co Monaghan and Ireland as a whole. The shadow of Brexit that grew increasingly larger over the course of last year certainly looms with somewhat menacing aspect as 2019 starts its course. As our story on page one this week illustrates, the ...

Plenty of ‘game time’ for fringe players With the 2019 Bank of Ireland Dr. McKenna Cup up and running before the new Year, Monaghan rounded off the calendar year with a 13th win from 20 fixtures at the expense of Antrim in Clones last saturday. Just one player made his senior inter-county debut, namely Jamie Walshe, but it was still a much-changed Monaghan team, which showed nine changes from august’s All Ireland SFC semi-final against Tyrone. It was a low number of newcomers for a McKenna Cup game – on the ...

Plenty to work on as well PATRICK SMYTH Monaghan senior football manager Malachy O’Rourke believes the month of January could hold the key to a decent NFL campaign for his players this year. Although “pleased” by his team’s victory last weekend against Dr. McKenna Cup opponents Antrim, O’Rourke admitted that quite a bit of work needs to be done in readiness for bigger challenges down the road. “We wanted to get game time into as many players as we could, but overall we would be happy and it’s a good start to ...

Peter Hughes Footage from motorists’ dashcams could provide important information in the investigation of the theft by a criminal gang of the ATM machine from the Ballybay Bank of Ireland branch in the early hours of Sunday morning last, the Gardaí have stated. Speaking to the Northern Standard on Tuesday, Superintendent Fergus Treanor of Carrickmacross Garda Station appealed to motorists who may have been travelling in the area of Ballybay around the time of the incident, which is believed to have taken place around 3 am, and had their dashcams ...

By Veronica Corr The Fianna Fáil selection convention for Carrickmacross/Castleblayney Electoral Area, to select candidates to run in the 2019 Local Elections, was expected to be straightforward, with both sitting councillors Padraig McNally and PJ O’Hanlon expected to represent their party. Just before the meeting candidates Rory McEvoy and David Funcheon withdrew their names. However, Cllr. McNally then revealed that it was not his intention to run again. This news came as a shock and is predicted to be something of a game changer. Cllr. McNally will serve out the ...

• €9.5 million funding secured for “shared space” facility to house new Museum and Library Peter Hughes The recent series of positive funding announcements for Monaghan Town and its environs continued on Friday last when it was learned that the Monaghan Peace Campus project had been successful in securing funding of €9.5 million under the EU’s PEACE IV programme. The new facility will be constructed on lands at the Plantation Road in the town which were formerly occupied by the local authority machinery yard. The three-storey building will provide a new ...

Santa arrived on cue at St Salvator’s Church of Ireland in Glaslough on Tuesday evening with a number of gifts for the junior choir and presentations for the Minister, Reverend Lorraine Capper and choir conductor, Ethne McCord. It was all part of ‘A Winter’s Tale’, a special celebration of Christmas that has been taking place at this church for the past five years. It is a crosscommunity and cross-border event that has become so popular that the tickets are usually sold out in advance and the organisers have had to ...