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Colm Shalvey reports A place in a first Ulster SFC Final since 2015 is up for grabs for Monaghan when they return to Omagh to take on Fermanagh this Sunday. Having followed up a strong campaign in the Allianz NFL that saw them finish third in Division One, Monaghan started their championship in style with a fully-merited win over Tyrone at Healy Park. They now take on a Fermanagh side who have also enjoyed a progressive …

John Graham reports THIS SUNDAY the Monaghan senior football team heads back to Healy Park, the scene of their resounding victory over Tyrone in the quarter-final, to take on Fermanagh, this time around as they seek to book their place in the Ulster final for the fifth time in eight years and the first time since 2015 when the county won their sixienth Ulster title in all, defeating Donegal by the narrowest of margins, in an absolute cliff hanger. Monaghan have appeared in four finals since 2010, losing to Tyrone that ...

• Michael McDonnell THE NORTHERN STANDARD received confirmation from the HSE yesterday afternoon that Ballybay Community Crèche was closed earlier in the day after a “number of linked cases of VTEC infection” — a form of what is commonly termed E. coli had been detected at the facility. The crèche will remain closed pending screening of all children and staff for possible VTEC (the short for verotoxigenic E. coli) infection, and the HSE has also confirmed that the closure was put in place….

…But No Live TV Coverage Until June Michael Fisher Congratulations to both Monaghan teams on their performances in Omagh on Sunday. But many local fans who were unable to travel to Healy Park expressed their annoyance at RTÉ in particular for not broadcasting the Ulster senior football championship quarter final game live. It turned out to be a thrilling encounter. Monaghan saw off the challenge from current Ulster champions Tyrone by 1-18 to 1-16. Superbly taken frees and 45s by goalkeeper Rory Beggan and six points from Conor McManus including one ...

• Michael McDonnell THE NORTHERN STANDARD received confirmation from the HSE yesterday afternoon that Ballybay Community Crèche was closed earlier in the day after a “number of linked cases of VTEC infection” — a form of what is commonly termed E. coli had been detected at the facility. The crèche will remain closed pending screening of all children and staff for possible VTEC (the short for verotoxigenic E. coli) infection, and the HSE has also confirmed that the closure was put in place with the agreement of crèche management and ...

A Castleblayney man made history at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society Balmoral Show last Friday. A cow owned by James Lambe from Shantonagh became the first animal of the Dairy Shorthorn breed to win the highly prestigious dairy interbreed championship in Balmoral’s 150- year history. The scale of the achievement was described by one of Mr Lambe’s neighbours this week as akin to “the Monaghan footballers winning the Sam Maguire!” Mr Lambe himself explained the success in straight-forward terms: “She’s the best cow I’ve ever owned,” he told Farmers Weekly. ...

TEACH NA NDAOINE GROUP ALSO WIN A NATIONAL AWARD Michael Fisher Three County Monaghan groups have won national awards at a major environmental competition in Dublin sponsored by UNESCO. One of them is the Sliabh Beagh Protectors from Urbleshanny National School in Scotstown. They won the People’s Choice award, which was decided by online voting on a website in which over 11,000 votes were counted. The other two winners were a team from Teach na nDaoine in Monaghan for their ‘eco-fairy friendly forest’ along a stretch of the Ulster Canal Greenway ...

• Peter Hughes The re-activation of the Monaghan Hospital retention and action campaigns was advocated this week by the coordinator of a national movement seeking to bring about improvements in the Irish health service. In an interview with the Northern Standard in Monaghan last Thursday, Cyril Brennan said reductions in local hospital services and regular local controversies about ambulance response times to medical emergency situations in the North Monaghan area were symptomatic of the malaise afflicting health provision nationally. While he expressed the view that seeking to have a full ...

Coin designs by two Monaghan students have been selected as regional winners in a competition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Central Bank. Lorcan Stephenson from St Mary’s Boys National School on St Mary’s Hill in Monaghan Town and Lauren McKenna of the St Louis Secondary School on the town’s Glen Road were winners in the Connacht/Ulster category of a student art competition to design a commemorative coin inspired by people or events. Lorcan was a winner in the Primary (Infants to 2nd Class) category while Lauren was successful ...

Quality Authority (HIQA) and the Mental Health Commission recently hosted a seminar in the Law Society of Ireland on the safeguarding of adults in health and social care services. The seminar was entitled ‘Adult Safeguarding: Promoting Rights, Health and Wellbeing’, and had as its stated aim “to raise awareness of the importance of safeguarding adults who may be vulnerable, and provide attendees with the opportunity to discuss how Ireland can better promote the rights, health and wellbeing of people at risk of abuse or harm.” Interim Chief Executive of the ...