Articles in the General News Category

A podcast series is being produced as part of a Community Link Project to mark this year’s 50th anniversary of the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Town. People in the Monaghan community are being asked to share their stories, experiences and memories of the bombing on May 17 1974 and have them recorded to create an archive. There is an open call to come and record your story at the Market House in Monaghan Town on Friday February 2 from 10 am-2 pm. Said the organisers: “The fabric of Monaghan ...

By Veronica Corr It will cost an estimated €22million to reinstate roads that are rated from 1-4 on the Pavement Surface Condition Index (PSCI), which Local Authorities use to evaluate the condition of the non-national road network. The PSCI comprises a 10-point rating system, with ratings of 1 to 4 indicating the requirement for structural overlay. The startling statistic was revealed to councillors in attendance of Ballybay/Clones Municipal District (MD) on Monday morning. The meeting took place in the function room of the Youthreach Centre on Birch Court, Ballybay, which ...

The members of the Monaghan Municipal District were informed on Monday that Transport Infrastructure Ireland no longer considered a speed discrimination traffic lights system as the solution to road safety issues being experienced in the village of Emyvale. TII had instructed Monaghan Co Council to proceed with plans for a roundabout instead, a report before the meeting stated. The report said: “Monaghan Co Council, on advice from TII, have been in contact with Transport Scotland (TS) to obtain data on the effectiveness of a Speed Discrimination Traffic Lights System that ...

A former licensed premises in the centre of Emyvale will be transformed into a community facility under an initiative to tackle dereliction and vacancy in rural towns and villages. Cavan/Monaghan TD and Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys announced this week that the purchase of the former McMahon’s Bar and associated living accommodation on Emyvale’s Main Street for use as a multi-purpose community space had been approved for funding under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. It is one of 24 projects nationwide that will benefit from a ...

Students from Largy College in Clones and Ballybay Community College were conferred with Special Awards at the 2024 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Largy College students Sadhbh Bonner and Denisa Horvat won the Irish Science Teachers Association Award in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences for their project How to Improve the Teaching of Astronomy. Ballybay Community College students Chloe Sullivan, Charlotte Smith, Katie Duffy won the Tackle Your Feelings Award for their project “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but my mind can also hurt me”, which ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Emyvale and Monaghan star Karl Gallagher has signed a two-year deal with AFL club Adelaide Crows. The 21-year-old has signed as a rookie with the Crows, having been on the radar Down Under since 2019 when he was a standout at an AFL Combine testing day in Ireland, before the pandemic hit. Gallagher won back-to-back Ulster MFC titles with Monaghan in 2018 and 2019, when he was one of three players to start the provincial finals in both years, being named Man of the Match after a memorable ...

MAITIU MONAGHAN The Northern Standard Newspaper/ Monaghan GAA Awards Night will take place this Saturday in the Four Seasons Hotel, Monaghan, when the 2023 Award winners will receive their rewards as recognition for all their hard work and efforts last year. The Club of the Year award was won by Scotstown GAA after a remarkable season for the club across all levels. The club reclaimed the Senior Football Championship with a three-point win over Inniskeen and went on to reach the Ulster Championship final after enthralling victories against Kilcoo and Trillick. ...

Monaghan Town has been praised by the adjudicators in the IBAL Anti-Litter League for one of its best ever performances in the analysis of the cleanliness of 40 Irish towns and cities. The final Irish Business Against Litter survey of 2023 puts the county capital in 7th place in the league table, declaring it “cleaner than European norms”. The An Taisce adjudicators found no seriously littered sites in the town and singled out a number of locations for particular praise, among them the residential area of Tully, Monaghan Shopping Centre, ...

By Veronica Corr Back in June 2023, The Northern Standard brought you a story of an eight-year-old boy (now aged nine), Arseniy Sabanovs, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2019. The severity of his condition means, that while he is verbal he cannot effectively communicate. Arseniy was accepted as a patient by a private clinic in Isreal, to undergo a month-long intensive course of treatments designed to help him meet his full potential. However, Arseniy didn’t get to travel and start his treatment last October because insufficient funds ...

PETER HUGHES The measures being taken by Monaghan Co Council to ensure transport disruption is kept to a minimum in the county during the current spell of low temperatures were outlined in a lively discussion at Monday’s meeting of the local authority. At the meeting’s outset, Cathaoirleach David Maxwell (Fine Gael) referred to the drop in temperature experienced at the weekend and the treacherous state of the roads in the county that morning. He paid tribute to the Council management and outdoor staff on their response to the weather, noting ...