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Well-known Ballybay lady Kathleen O’Daly celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday. She is pictured with some of the staff of St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Ballybay being presented with the letter and cheque from President Michael D Higgins that is the honour bestowed on all Irish centenarians. Kathleen is a popular figure in the Ballybay community where she ran a sweet shop for a long number of years. Included in the photograph are Denise Monaghan, Teresa McNamee Assistant Director of Nursing, Catherine McGregor Activities Co-ordinator, Martina O’Neill, Shannon Brady, Margaret ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys is pictured presenting a scarf from Monaghan craft producer Liz Christy to Liange Wiu, President of Bank of China, the largest banking organisation in the world. Minister Humphreys made the presentation during her recent trade mission to China, when she bestowed a similar gift on Dr Ge Li, Chairman of the Wuxi company who are creating over 400 jobs at a new Biologics Centre in Dundalk. The Minister said both recipients were “hugely impressed by the high ...

Peter Hughes Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan TD came in for criticism from Sinn Féin’s Colm Carthy at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for his response to the Council’s recent call for a public inquiry to be held into the circumstances of the death in a hit-and-run road traffic accident in August 2011 of young South Monaghan man Shane O’Farrell. A letter from the Minister’s Department said it would be inappropriate for the Minister to comment on the Council’s request while an investigation by GSOC or the Garda Síochána ...

Councillor Coyle demands Co Council statement Peter Hughes A call was made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for a public statement to be made by the local authority regarding the poor quality of the domestic water supply in Ballybay Town and surrounding areas. Fianna Fáil representative Seamus Coyle secured a commitment from the Council executive in relation to the statement, but expressed anger and frustration when Cathaoirleach David Maxwell curbed a contribution he attempted to make on the issue. Councillor Coyle sought to raise the matter by reference to ...

Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has secured a commitment from the new Garda Commissioner Drew Harris that he will meet representatives of the Dublin and Monaghan bombing campaign group Justice for the Forgotten. In his concluding address and questioning of the new Garda Commissioner, who was appearing for the first time before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality, Committee Chairperson Deputy Ó Caoláin obtained a commitment from the Commissioner to meet with members of the organisation that has led the demand and lobby for truth ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys said this week that she had held successful meetings involving three key local companies – Combilift, Newbaze and Lakeland Dairies – on her recent trade mission to China. Minister Humphreys announced that new deals worth over €60 million were signed by a number of the 45 Irish companies participating in the trade mission. The Minister stated: “I am delighted to report that my trade mission to Hong Kong, Shenzen and Shanghai has been hugely successful, with deals ...

Peter Hughes “He was a big man in stature and in heart,” stated Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council David Maxwell on Monday when leading the local authority’s tributes to their former member, the late Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Seymour Crawford who passed away on Saturday October 20 last at the age of 74. The former Deputy Crawford served as a member of the Co Council from 1991 to 2003 and the Council adjourned their monthly meeting on Monday for five minutes as a mark of respect after observing a ...

Castleblayney hC v robert emmets, Cushendun: athletiC Grounds, Sunday throw-in 1.00pm. JOHN GRAHAM a cursory glance at this pairing could very well elicit the response that it is difficult to understand how robert emmets, Cushendun, from antrim, are actually playing Junior hurling but that is the task facing Castleblayney hC on sunday in the athletic Grounds in armagh as they seek to take the ulster Junior hurling championship crown that they last won back in 2014 when they defeated na magha of derry in dungannon. sunday’s opponents defeated na magha in their quarter-final this ...

Scotstown 0-13 Burren 0-10 JOHN GRAHAM Scotstown are through to the semi-final of the Ulster Club Senior Football Championship when they held out for victory against Burren in an electrifying finish to their clash in Newry. The game saw the Down champions outplayed during the entire first half and then in the second-half coming from being seven points down to be in a position to strike for victory. That didn’t work out, though, as Scotstown showed character in spades to withstand that late onslaught and they broke for match-winning points in stoppage time…

The body of a Polish man in his late 30s was found at the Peter’s Lake park in Monaghan Town on Thursday morning last. Garda said that they were not treating the death of the man, who was named as Krzysztof Ciesielski, as suspicious. Members of the local Polish community placed floral and other tributes at the park after news of Mr Ciesielski’s death became known. A post mortem was carried out at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Co Louth. The deceased had lived in the town for a ...