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Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation and Fine Gael TD for Cavan Monaghan, Heather Humphreys has welcomed recently released figures that show a significant decline in the number of people out of work in Co Monaghan in the last year. “There are 48,100 more people at work since this time last year,” Minister Humphreys commented. “This is great news. Our recovery is being felt right across Ireland, with 9 out of every 10 new jobs created in the last year located outside Dublin. “I am particularly happy to see that ...

By PATRICK SMYTH Players who shine for Monaghan in this year’s NFL will be in the front of the queue come championship time when the jerseys are handed out, county supremo Malachy O’Rourke has intimated. O’Rourke hasn’t been slow to please the newcomers onto his panel this year and he was again delighted with how his new-look side performed last Sunday when they beat (1-10 to 0-12) division one rivals Kildare in round two of the NFL. With up to six panellists still on Sigerson Cup duty and a few of ...

Monaghan 1-10 Kildare 0-12 JOHN GRAHAM A more resilient and resourceful Monaghan fought a magnificent rearguard action in the final 10 minutes – 5 minutes of normal time and the 5 minutes of stoppage time added – to hold out for the narrowest of victories in this absorbing encounter against Kildare in St Conleth’s Park, Newbridge on Sunday last. In that time Kildare laid siege to the Monaghan citadel in an effort to fashion either an equalising point or perhaps a match-winning goal, but the Monaghan defensive shield held firm with the result ...

Concra Wood Golf Club Castleblayney was the venue for the County Monaghan Athletics Board awards night, which was held on Friday 26th February. Chairperson of the board Alan Clarke welcomed everyone to the event to celebrate the achievements of the county’s best athletes who have competed at national and international level over the last 12 months. The awards night was also there to honour those that competed with success in the county’s distance league which was being run for the fourth time in 2017, however Alan was quick to point ...

Monaghan Representatives Express Disappointment after Meeting Minister Naughten Michael Fisher Environment Minister Denis Naughten T.D. has confirmed he gave the go-ahead last September to put the 400 pylons for the North South interconnector out to public tender. This was nearly five months before planning permission was granted for the scheme in Northern Ireland by a civil servant at the Department for Infrastructure. Minister Naughten told public representatives from Monaghan and Cavan, including a Monaghan County Council delegation, that he was awaiting two reports he had commissioned concerning the..

A Castleblayney man, Anthony Lambe, with an address at Annadrumman, was jailed for life in the Circuit Criminal Court on Monday last for the murder of a Dundalk woman, Irene White, in 2005. The court heard that on the morning of April 6 2005, Irene White’s 79-year-old mother called into her house for some breakfast and found her daughter lying in a pool of blood. The prosecution alleged that she was stabbed 34 times. A cold case team began reviewing the murder in 201 after two witnesses came forward with ...

By Veronica Corr There was a very productive public meeting about reforming the committee to bring a swimming pool to Carrickmacross last Wednesday night, January 24th, but the attendance was poor, even though the carpark in the Workhouse was full. It was noted that the swimming pool, or lack thereof, had been one of the most contentious issues in the town for decades, yet there was only a handful of people at the inaugural meeting. The next public meeting takes place Wednesday, February 7th at 8pm in the Workhouse and ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, and reigning Rose of Tralee Jennifer Byrne joined forces on Saturday to impart a vital health message to Co Monaghan women (Photo: © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard). Monaghan is one of the counties with the country’s lowest uptake of free screening services for cervical cancer – and the Minister and the Rose combined to support the Irish Family Planning Association’s Pearl of Wisdom campaign. The Minister was also present at Monaghan Courthouse on Saturday for the launch of ...

It was announced this week that Monaghan Co Council is to receive €9,097,325 for its local roads budget in 2018. Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys welcomed what she described as a substantial increase in funding, stating that the figure received by Co Monaghan represented a 19% increase with 2017. “By any judgement this is a very significant increase in funding year on year,” Minister Humphreys stated. The Co Council allocation is made up of figures of €5,11,000 for restoration improvement; €879,000 for ...

Michael Fisher An amended plan for a wind farm in the Errigal Truagh area of north Monaghan has been refused planning permission by Monaghan County Council because it did not include a suitable survey of hen harriers in the Sliabh Beagh area carried out during the breeding season. Nor did it specify details of the proposed connection to the electricity grid in Co. Monaghan. The development involved the erection of seven tall turbines in five townlands and road upgrade works on access routes in three other areas. The company behind ...