Articles in the General News Category

The peaceful passing at Cavan General Hospital on Saturday November 4 last, in the loving presence of his family, of Mr Tommy Smyth, 16 Manor Wood, Monaghan Town occasioned deep sadness in his home town and wider North Monaghan area. Aged 73, Tommy was the eldest son of a family that has played a significant role in the business life of Monaghan Town for two generations, guiding the fortunes of the Northern Standard newspaper and its former sister company R & S Printers Limited. As a printer and later a ...

Friday, November 10 last was assuredly “a day for the books” in Co Monaghan. Literally so in Castleblayney where Minister for Rural and Community Development and local TD Heather Humphreys cut the tape to inaugurate the town’s new library facility – having two days earlier performed the official opening of the new 15-classroom extension at ‘Blayney’s Our Lady’s Secondary School. Elsewhere in the county on Friday Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was also a busy man, doing the honours for the official openings of the new Primary Care Centres now ...

The future protection of Castleblayney’s Lough Muckno into the future must be the governing priority in any new development plans, a local group has stated. The Friends of Muckno organisation has delivered its assessment of the recent analysis conducted by consultants Fehily Timoney of the “Vision” plan presented to Monaghan Co Council in 2021 outlining options for the future use of Hope Castle and the surrounding Muckno estate. The group has welcomed aspects of the consultants’ assessment and set out their views in detail in the following statement: The Lough ...

Lakeland Dairies announced yesterday (Wednesday) that it plans to close three of its facilities over the next 16 months in order to cut overhead expenses, including its operation in Monaghan and its milk drying facilities at Lough Egish. There was speculation following the shock statement that as many as 78 jobs across the co-operative could be impacted. Lakeland’s Banbridge site in Co Down will also close. Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys TD yesterday said that supports would be put in place for the workers impacted by the decision, which ...

Senator Robbie Gallagher has called this week for an expanded role for the injury unit at Monaghan Hospital which could see it accept patients for treatment for minor medical conditions that would otherwise see them brought by ambulance to Cavan Hospital. The Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil representative called in the Seanad for consideration to be given to the replication in Monaghan of a programme currently in place at Roscommon University Hospital which allows that facility to accept patients for treatment for minor ailments through an agreed protocol with the National Ambulance ...

The grief experienced in the offices of the Northern Standard newspaper this week by the passing on Saturday last, November 4 at Cavan General Hospital of Mr Tommy Smyth, 16 Manor Wood, Monaghan has been reflected across the wider Monaghan community. The members of Monaghan Co Council united on Monday in the passing of a vote of sympathy to all of the Smyth family and the staff of the Northern Standard on the death of Tommy, who prior to his retirement a number of years ago was a senior management ...

The market will provide the ultimate determination on whether the plan to build new local authority civic offices in Monaghan Town is financially viable. That was the outcome of a vote taken at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council which sanctioned the project proceeding to the preparation of a “Part 8” planning submission and entering a tender process. This course of action was approved of in a roll-call vote by 14 of the 18 elected members after a discussion in which tensions arose around the escalating cost of the office ...

MAITIU MONAGHAN In 2021, Killanny, a club just outside Carrickmacross, were relegated to the Junior Football Championship. It was a relegation that garnered quite a lot of publicity. That season, the club had reached the Intermediate League Final. They faced Donaghmoyne, who had already won the Intermediate Championship. The permutations were simple but strange. Win and get promoted, lose, and get relegated. On the day, they were beaten, and went down to the Junior Championship. However, Killanny are no Junior club, and through agonising defeat, they have created unbridled success. After ...

A major awareness initiative on men’s health which will continue over the coming month gets underway in Monaghan Town this week. The “throw-in” for the Crocus Movember Championship took place on Wednesday November 1 with an appeal to all GAA players, supporters and officials of clubs to back the campaign by electing to grow their facial hair “in any shape, colour or form” during the month of November and seek sponsorship in support of the cause. Monaghan Credit Union has come on board as sponsor of the main prize of ...

The National Lottery is continuing to appeal to Lotto players in Monaghan to check their old tickets from Saturday 19th August as a prize worth €1,000,500 remains unclaimed. The Monaghan player won the €1,000,500 prize in a special Lotto Plus Raffle draw event last August and now has just three weeks left to claim their lifechanging prize. The winning raffle number for the Saturday 19th August draw was: 3249. Each of the tickets with the winning Lotto Plus Raffle number drawn in the Saturday 19th August draw were entered into ...