Articles in the General News Category

Mistakes worry for Malachy PATRICK SMYTH The banana skin planted by Leitrim last weekend might have been avoided but Monaghan manager Malachy O’Rourke wasn’t totally pleased with his charges’ display. “I have to say there were parts of the game that were good but parts of it that were not so good either,” O’Rourke commented. “It was a bit of a mixed bag really, but what we have to do now is analyse it and see what more we can get right for the next day. “It was quite a sluggish start ...

Monaghan 1-19 Leitrim 0-09 JOHN GRAHAM In the end Monaghan experienced little difficulty in disposing of the challenge of Leitrim in sun kissed Parc Sean MacDiarmada, Carrick on Shannon on Saturday afternoon last, to book their place in round 4 of the All Ireland Senior Championship Qualifiers and also retained their unbeaten run against Leitrim, which goes back all the way to the early 1970s. Monaghan led from gun to tape with the best that the home side could achieve was being level on three occasions in the opening quarter but…

Arlene Foster says going to GAA Match was a “Significant Step” Michael Fisher It was a short journey, around seventeen miles, for the DUP leader Arlene Foster from her home near Brookeborough in Fermanagh across the border to Clones on Sunday. But it was an important one that could help to unblock the current political stalemate in the North. Earlier this month Leo Varadkar became the first Taoiseach from the Republic to visit the headquarters of the Orange Order. He paused to pay his respects at a memorial to commemorate 336 ...

Peter Hughes A report produced after an extensive consultation process identifying issues of concern for women in Monaghan was launched on Monday evening last. Produced by the women’s support and advocacy group Dochas, the document was praised by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys TD – keynote speaker at the launch event in the St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre – as a timely and important contribution to identifying matters of contemporary concern to Monaghan women. The Minister, her fellow Cavan/Monaghan TDs Niamh Smyth and…

By Veronica Corr Minister Shane Ross has given a commitment to Senator Robbie Gallagher that he will visit Monaghan to see the roads for himself, Monday morning’s meeting of Carrickmacross/ Castleblayney Municipal District heard, when five elected members from the area met with Oireachtas members on the issue of roads. Apologies were received from Minister Heather Humphreys, who had other commitments. There was widespread and scathing criticism of the Minister’s failure to attend. It was also observed that there was no government party representative at the meeting. Fine Gael Councillor ...

A further €93,002 in LEADER funding has been allocated to five local community projects across Cavan and Monaghan. The announcement follows confirmation that over €1.8million in LEADER funding has already been allocated to local community projects across the constituency. Ballybay Community Arts have been awarded €16,984 to purchase stage equipment for local drama and musical groups. Cahans Project…

Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Paudge Connolly has renewed his appeal to local communities in the county to consider availing of the Community Involvement Scheme as a means of expediting repair works to local roads. Speaking to the Northern Standard this week, Councillor Connolly welcomed the fact that the scheme, announced at the start of the year, had been extended – but warned that, as the deadline for applications was the end of this month, local communities considering its deployment should immediately make an application to Monaghan Co Council. ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE demand for a public inquiry into all the circumstances surrounding the tragic hit-and-run death of the young Carrickmacross law student Shane O’Farrell, and the subsequent investigation into the fatality, has continued to mount feverishly, at cross-party political level, following a recent call by Fianna Fail in a Private Members’ motion, urging the government to immediately establish a Commission of Investigation into the death of Shane. Sinn Fein also put in an amendment calling on the government to establish …

A CASTLESHANE WOMAN has been given one last chance to hand her beloved German Shepherd over to Monaghan Co Council to be put down, after another instalment in a longrunning case was heard at Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court. The case had its beginnings at the court May in 2016, when Lorraine Hall of Lisaginney, Castleshane had been summoned for failing to keep proper control of a dog that was worrying sheep at Lisaginney on 20th January of that year. Mr Frank McManus, her neighbour, had given evidence of ...

DkIT engineering student Warren Stevely (22) of Scotstown has been announced as the winner of the Cruickshank Intellectual Property Attorneys’ High Achieving Merit Award at the recent Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards 2018. Warren is a fourth-year student on the BA (Hons) in Engineering Entrepreneurship in DkIT and was awarded the prize for his project ‘Acidose 1’, a device which was designed in accordance with new EU regulations aimed at eliminating the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry. Describing his project, Warren said: “Acidose 1 is an electronic device ...