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A meal voucher scheme, the suspension of on-farm inspections and assistance measures from financial institutions were all elements of a six-point plan to assist farmers through the current fodder crisis put forward by the Fianna Fáil members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday. The proposals were part of a notice of urgent business submitted by the FF Council grouping and unanimously adopted following debate at the conclusion of the local authority’s monthly meeting. The motion read: “That Monaghan Co Council totally condemns the chaotic inaction of the Minister for Agriculture, ...

Imposing penalty points on motorists from whose vehicles litter was strewn onto public roadways was advocated as a strong deterrent measure by Fianna Fáil councillor Pádraig McNally when Monaghan Co Council met on Monday. The persistence of illegal dumping and the wanton discarding of packaging and other materials despite education campaigns and enhanced enforcement measures being introduced by the local authority in recent years amazed some councillors and angered others, principally Sinn Féin’s Brian McKenna who was unsparing in his condemnation of litter louts when initially raising the issue on ...

An inspection report published by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) last week identified non-compliance issues in the foster care services operated by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in Cavan/Monaghan. “Of the eight standards assessed in the inspection of the Cavan/Monaghan foster care service, seven were found to be non-compliant, two of which were judged to be majorly noncompliant,” HIQA stated. “These included safeguarding and child protection and reviews of foster carers.” HIQA also published reports on the Dublin South Central and Dublin North City foster care services, ...

There was a time when no politician be they of national or local livery – nor even the humble presspersons whose lot it is to record the pronouncements and prognostications of the political class – could traverse even a short distance of public thoroughfare without being posed the question in our title. The fate of what was once Monaghan General Hospital and now merely Monaghan Hospital was a pressing public preoccupation in our circulation area for decades. From the time of then Health Minister Barry Desmond’s notorious “close and dispose” ...

There is a debate starting among some of the Junior clubs as to the overall benefit of the extended league this year and one side in that debate will have gained some traction this weekend as one of the teams affiliated to the competition by a senior club suffered a heavy reverse for the second week in a row. In the opening round of games last weekend, Corduff suffered a 25 points reverse and Truagh shipped a 23 points defeat and on Sunday…

John Graham reports History will be made this Saturday (2pm) at Drumragh GFC (near Omagh) when Monaghan and Donegal lock horns in the 2018 Ulster U17 football decider. The counties will compete for the inaugural Jim McGuigan Cup and given the fact that Monaghan were impressive in their victory over Tyrone in last Saturday’s semi final, they will arguably go into this weekend’s final as favourites, especially given that Armagh put Donegal to a searching test. Indeed, but for some wayward…

Dairies Lakeland and LacPatrick both announced assistance measures for their suppliers yesterday as a consensus emerged among political and agricultural observers that the fodder shortage was beginning to impact heavily upon Co Monaghan. Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed TD yesterday announced an immediate review of fodder supplies and the identification of further measures to increase fodder…

thanked people in Co Monaghan for their donations which have meant he has been able to continue his education. In 2012, at the age of nine, Daniel Okweng featured on the Trócaire box as part of that year’s Lenten appeal. Now Daniel is a 15-year-old teenager. His home is a simple hut in northern Uganda and his family is among the survivors of one of the worst massacres perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) during the 20 years of terror the rebel group inflicted on the region. Daniel was ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, hailed the important export contribution being made by Mullan Lighting when she visited the firm’s base of operations in the North Monaghan village …

A special service to mark the life of John Sullivan SJ will be taking place in St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen later this month. Both the leaders of the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic churches in Dublin, the Most Revd Dr. Michael Jackson, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and the Most Revd Diarmuid Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland will be taking part in the service on Sunday, 15th April at 4….