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Gyproc seeks to reassure Magheracloone public in aftermath of subsidence incident By Veronica Corr “Our focus is on supporting our neighbours in the area where we have mined for well over 80 years,” mining company Gyproc told The Northern Standard this week in an exclusive interview which addressed aspects of the major land subsidence incident which occurred in the Magheracloone area on Sunday night/Monday morning September 23/24 last. Responding to questions from our reporter, the company committed its support to Magheracloone GFC and the families made temporarily homeless as a result of ...

LITHUANIAN DEFENDANT TO BE SENTENCED IN JANUARY Lithuanian nationality pleaded guilty at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday to the manslaughter of Seamus Bell, who died five months after an incident at Carrickmacross in January of this year Vytautas Racys (34), with an address at 33 The Oak, Loughnaglack, Carrickmacross pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge of unlawfully killing another person, Seamus Bell, by inflicting injuries on him at Main Street, Carrickmacross on 20th January 2018. The court was reminded during the indictment that Mr Bell had died on 2nd June ...

A female pedestrian in her seventies died on Main Street, Carrickmacross, last Thursday, September 27th, as a result of an incident involving a lorry at the pedestrian crossing around noon. Eileen Meegan (née McArdle), who was from Killabola, Inniskeen, was a wife, mother and grandmother. Her Requiem Mass took place at the Church of Mary Mother of Mercy, Inniskeen at 10am on Sunday morning last. Cremation took place afterwards in Lakeland’s Crematorium, Cavan. This was the first road death in County Monaghan this year to date.

By PATSY McARDLE A GROUP of trade union representatives from counties Monaghan and Cavan paid an Information Visit to the European Parliament which was hosted last week by local Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy. Mr. Carthy this week commended the members of the Forsa trade union branches in counties Monaghan and Cavan who travelled to Brussels as “committed representatives of their fellow workers, using the opportunity provided, to bring their concerns directly to the heart of EU decision making”. The delegation of members from Fórsa, which predominately represents workers in ...

Clerkin is pictured enjoying a spectacular preview of the experience about to unfold for the competitors in this weekend’s Monaghan Irish Challenge golf tournament at the Concra Wood course in Castleblayney. Clerkin joined with Conor McManus and Jack McCarron to play with Welsh professional Stuart Manley in this week’s proam event which preluded the tournament proper. Play commenced today, Thursday and concludes on Sunday next. Tickets for the event are free of charge from Eventbrite.ie. The fourth edition of the Irish Challenge is being held at the picturesque Concra Wood ...

A large crowd gathered in the Iontas Theatre on Thursday evening last to view the ‘Magpies on the Pylon’ play by renowned actor Michael Collins. The play looked at the issue of suicide and its aftermath on a family. The play was set in a tiny bedroom belonging to Jim, a Traveller father who struggles to cope with the suicide of his 23- year-old son. After his son’s death, Jim becomes isolated from other family members and is misusing alcohol. The audience accompanied Jim on an emotional roller-coaster ride as ...

Cathaoirleach of Monaghan County Council, Cllr David Maxwell officially opened the World War I exhibition at Johnston and Madden Memorial Hall in Monaghan on Monday. The display will continue until Saturday at 1pm. It will be open late tonight and tomorrow until 9pm and admission is free. It is part of an EU PEACE IV project funded by the SEUPB through Monaghan Co. Council. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

The shell-shocked residents of Magheracloone and the surrounding area still coming to terms with the impact and ongoing effects of the major land subsidence in their midst on Sunday night September 23 last have two compelling requirements that all those involved in dealing with the incident and its aftermath must have uppermost in their considerations. One is an assurance of their current and continued personal safety, and the other is a reassurance that the causes of the incident will be expediently identified and communicated to the public and that measures ...

Colm Shalvey reports Sunday’s Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship Final pits four-in-a-row chasers Scotstown against league champions Ballybay. Both of these clubs have returned to the fore in the senior ranks in recent times, particularly Scotstown, who have won four SFC titles since ending a 20-year wait in 2013, with their current three-in-a-row putting them second in the roll of honour ahead of Clontibret. Ballybay’s 2012 breakthrough ended their 25-year run without winning the Mick Duffy Cup, while they have been semi-finalists in seven of the last eight years. Scotstown memorably ...

John Graham reports Emyvale 0-19 Cremartin 1-08 Emyvale captain Daniel McMahon put on an exhibition of point scoring as a sharper, more clinical Emyvale deservedly clinched the Universal Graphics Monaghan Junior football championship title and with something to spare over an out of sorts Cremartin in Scotstown on Sunday afternoon last. McMahon finished with nine points to his credit, six from frees, some of which were simply superb on a day when a difficult breeze made shooting that bit more risky but the Emyvale talisman simply made it look easy as he stroked ...