Articles in the General News Category

Patsy McArdle The exit of Britain and the North from the European Union, and the implications for farmers from a revised EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), were described at a largely attended seminar in Co Monaghan last Friday, as creating a “double threat for the future of the family farm sector, on both sides of the Irish border. The widely representative Future of Irish Farming seminar was organised by Midlands/North West Sinn Fein MEP Mr Matt Carthy and addressed by the leaders of different major farming organisations, including the Irish ...

Peter Hughes Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys TD believes that Emyvale’s Silver Hill Farm produces the best duck in the world – and an increasing number of Asian consumers evidently agree. The massive impact that the North Monaghan duck production company are making on the markets of the east was illustrated at their plant on Monday when they welcomed executive representatives of the leading Singapore restaurant group Tung Lok, who simply can’t get enough Silver Hill duck. Tung Lok Group Executive Chairman Andrew Tjioe, who was accompanied ...

Minister Humphreys asked to intervene A representative group has claimed this week that Co Monaghan will lose further general practitioner numbers because of pressures being placed on them to comply with abortion legislation. The Doctors for Freedom of Conscience Group has called on Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys to intervene. It said that 640 GPs had signed a petition criticising the level of consultation on the issue of abortion engaged in with their sector by Minister for Health Simon Harris TD. “A serious ...

Hundreds of students from secondary schools in Monaghan and surrounding counties attended the Irish film premiere of ‘How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story’ at the Garage Theatre this week. Yesterday, Wednesday morning Denis Mulcahy, Director of the charity Project Children and a large entourage of co-workers and associates from the USA attended the opening screening. They were welcomed onto the red carpet by Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council David Maxwell and Paddy Flood, Director of Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board who co-ordinated the attendance of students ...

Brexit, we are being told, is reaching its negotiation end game – and as we went to press british Prime Minister Theresa May was attempting to find a winning position for the draft text of a withdrawal agreement on the chequered chessboard of an emergency meeting with her recalcitrant Cabinet. Ms May’s starting position is anything but strong, and even if she pushes it past the Cabinet pawns, the deal will have to avoid checkmate when it faces the scrutiny of a special EU summit in brussels on November 25 and ...

Michael Fisher An EirGrid executive has told an Oireachtas committee that the state-owned power company has a new process of engaging communities around Ireland about the need to develop the electricity grid. The company has a new six-step approach where it engages with communities at a much earlier stage, so they had done a lot in Mayo for the North Connacht project, according to Communications Manager Valerie Hedin. She was answering questions from Fine Gael Senator Michelle Mulherin from Ballina about plans for the connection of future wind farms ...

Doohamlet 1-10 Donaghmoyne 0-09 JOHN GRAHAM A sharper, slicker Doohamlet clinched the intermediate double when they added the league title to their intermediate football championship, overcoming Donaghmoyne in a very entertaining contest that produced some fine passages of play under the lights of Grattan Park, Inniskeen on Saturday evening last. Doohamlet were full value for their victory in that they were the more purposive team throughout the match, defending well, breaking quickly and with superior support play that saw them keep Donaghmoyne on the back foot for almost the entire game. Doohamlet too ...

Clontibret are just one win from the title Clontibret 2-11 Fullen Gaels 4-03 SEAN CAUGHEY Clontibret edged into the All-Ireland Club Junior Camogie B Final when they got through a thrilling clash with British champions Fullen Gaels last Sunday. Two well-prepared teams were separated by a narrow margin at the immaculate facilities of St. Joseph’s GAA Glenavy, Co Antrim, with Clontibret finishing strongly to qualify for Sunday week’s final. Fullen Gaels started brightly, but it was Clontibret who struck first when Marie Greenan converted a brace of frees in quick succession, en route to ...

Peter Hughes “We are not fools – independent my arse!” shouted an angry Brian McKenna of Sinn Féin at the conclusion of a discussion at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council which saw defeated a motion from his party colleague Colm Carthy seeking, among other things, an independent investigation into the major land subsidence incident in Magheracloone in September. Councillor McKenna was disagreeing with the contention of Cathaoirleach David Maxwell (Fine Gael), whose casting vote defeated the motion, that an independent investigation was already underway in relation to the occurrence. ...

LOCAL POLITICS IS NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: CO COUNCILLORS Peter Hughes The Ireland of his senior years might have been “no country for old men” to William Butler Yeats, but the modern world of local politics is no country for young people with career commitments, in the view of the members of Monaghan Co Council. This was their reaction on Monday to confirmation of the news that recently co-opted Fine Gael Council member Eva Humphreys had resigned her seat on the local authority, citing inability to manage both her responsibilities ...