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Judge emphasises vital importance of traceability to Irish cattle industry The vital importance to the Irish cattle trade of having proper traceability procedures in place was commented upon by Judge Denis McLoughlin at Monaghan District Court on Monday when he imposed heavy fines on a Ballybay farmer who came before the court for failing to comply with Department of Agriculture regulations relating to the tagging of animals. Ashley Millar, Drummuck, Ballybay received two fines of €2,500, with six months to pay, and was directed to meet prosecution cost sof €1,650 for ...

LOCAL GIRL CATHY KIRKE TO PERFORM ON HOME GROUND! MACAllA na hÉireann, the 2018 Comhaltas Concert tour of ireland rolls into the leisure Centre, emyvale this Saturday night, where one of the performers will be local lady Cathy kirke! The Emyvale show Monaghan’s outing in the 14-venue tour from 7th–20th October that features the best of traditional talent drawn from the four Provinces of Ireland. Each year the tour assembles a fine mix of established artists and up-and-coming young stars. These are blended….

Outgoing Cavan/Monaghan dáil deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has accepted the role of Sinn féin’s Constituency director of elections for the next general election contest. A media release stated: “At a specially convened meeting in the Errigal Hotel in Cootehill last Thursday night, Sinn Féin activists from across counties Cavan and Monaghan unanimously endorsed a proposition put forward by the party’s selected candidates for the Cavan/Monaghan constituency in the next…

Peter Hughes The process of rates revaluation underway in Co Monaghan should reflect the commercial realities facing local businesses on the ground, a public meeting held in Monaghan Town last week was told. Around 100 ratepayers from across the county assembled in the Four Seasons Hotel for a public information session on the process that will see owners of commercial premises in the county receive new assessments from the Valuation Office in March of next year. The office’s Head of Valuation Services Declan Lavelle said that rates reductions had been ...

Four-in-a-row Scotstown prove they are different class in a county final Scotstown’s county men made big contributions as they won their fourth consecutive Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship title in Clones last Sunday. The familiar sight of Conor McCarthy hitting the net on county final day proved decisive as Scotstown held off the challenge of a Ballybay side that failed to take several chances to raise the green flag. Mc- Carthy, who had another good duel with county team-mate and former UCD colleague Ryan Wylie, evaded a couple of tackles on ...

Concra Wood Golf Club, and its stunning surroundings, came under the spotlight like never before this week as footage was beamed all across Europe to more than 170 million people! Coverage of the club’s hosting of the last leg of the European Challenge Tour last week gave golf fans around the continent a bird’s eye view of Concra’s idyllic setting as former Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson proved top dog. Concra’s staging of what was the Challenge Tour’s final event on European soil this year went down a treat with ...

John Graham reports Scotstown 1-13 Ballybay 0-13 Reigning champions Scotstown retained the Mick Duffy Cup to complete a four in a row of Senior Football Championship titles, this time at the expense of Ballybay in an intriguing contest that built to an exciting finish in St Tiarnach’s Park, Clones, on Sunday afternoon last. At the end there was some confusion as to what the actual score was with the score board, on instruction from an official, being amended to read Scotstown 1-12, Ballybay 0- 13, while practically ….

DEAL NEEDS APPROVAL BY SHAREHOLDERS Michael Fisher LacPatrick Dairies, formerly the Town of Monaghan Co-op, has agreed the terms for a merger with County Cavan based Lakeland Dairies. Together they will become the second largest dairy processor on the island of Ireland. The boards of both cooperatives have unanimously recommended the merger to shareholders. They will need to approve the deal at Special General Meetings in Cavan (Lakeland) and Coleraine (LacPatrick) on Tuesday 23rd October. A successful merger would underpin a sustainable and competitive milk price for thousands of dairy farmers ...

More Calls for Electricity Project to be Placed Underground after Publication of Expert Reports EirGrid was given sight of reports in advance of publication Michael Fisher “It’s entirely up to the landowners now.” That was the reaction from Nigel Hillis of the County Monaghan Anti Pylon Committee. It followed the publication by the government on Tuesday of two ‘independent’ reports that endorsed EirGrid’s controversial plans for the North South interconnector as an overhead line with 400 pylons. If the landowners don’t want an overhead line and pylons on their land and ...

Monaghan Town became Foodie Heaven last weekend as the annual Taste of Monaghan festival exerted a magnetic attraction on the public. Thousands of gourmands and gastro buffs filed through the commodious tented enclave in the town centre from Friday through to Sunday to sample the delights of a dizzying array of food retailers and producers from across the county and beyond, and watched spellbound as a gallery of local and TV celebrity chefs worked their culinary magic. Among the attendees was Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys TD ...