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By PATSY McARDLE A NEW €1.6 million fund has been launched in Co. Monaghan, which will be delivered over the course of two years, with up to eight applicants per year benefiting from allocations in the region of €50,000. THIS emerged at the weekend in a joint statement from Monaghan County Council and Social Innovation Fund Ireland, which described the €1.6m. boost as the largest of its kind to be invested in Ireland’s social enterprise sector. The fund which is designed to support social enterprises in Ireland has been established ...

A new initiative is underway to encourage more Co Monaghan women to avail of the free national screening service for cervical cancer. Monaghan was one of the five counties in Ireland with the lowest uptake for cervical screening, the HSE pointed out this week. On Saturday, an awarenessraising campaign was launched in Monaghan Town by Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys, who called on women aged between 25 and 60 in the county to mark the current Cervical Cancer Prevention Week by registering ...

Given the more developed consciousness of health and wellbeing that pertains in our modern habits and discourse, it was alarming to learn this week that Co Monaghan has one of the lowest uptakes in the country for the free screening service available to detect cervical cancer. Figures released by the HSE show that 74.5% of women in the county have attended for their smear test in the past five years, some way below the target percentile of 80 set for the CervicalCheck service. More than a fifth of Co Monaghan ...

JOHN GRAHAM Monaghan may have to cope with a Kildare backlash this Sunday at St. C o n l e t h ’ s Park, Newbridge (2pm) when the teams clash in their NFL Division One, second round game. After a decent first half display against the Dubs last weekend, Kildare were blown away by Jim Gavin’s side and will want to make amends by bouncing back against Monaghan. “Kildare I have no doubt would be very happy with their 1st half performance last Sunday but once Dublin got on top ...

On a slow-burn afternoon, Mayo never looked like getting beyond Monaghan’s reach in Clones last Sunday but they still bagged both points on offer. One would have been plenty. Paddy Durkan’s late, late winner (0-13 to 0-12) drew an almighty roar from around the ground and, in particular, from the massed ranks of Mayo fans located in the covered stand. Mayo is a big county but the size of the support they brought to St. Tighernach’s Park last Sunday must have taken even Monaghan’s die-hard supporters by surprise – not ...

Campaigners say potential compensation offers to landowners are a ‘declaration of war’ Line gets planning approval in the North Michael Fisher The decision on Tuesday by a civil servant in Stormont to approve the northern section of the North South interconnector has made campaigners in Monaghan, Cavan and Meath even more determined to oppose EirGrid’s plans. It doesn’t change anything, according to the County Monaghan Anti Pylon Committee and the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign. In other developments, a meeting has been arranged next Tuesday by Minister Heather Humphreys between a delegation ...

Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD yesterday (Wednesday) announced the introduction of a Fodder Transport Support measure to provide additional assistance to livestock farmers in the West/North-West most severely affected by the prolonged wet weather last autumn. However, Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil Dáil Deputy Brendan Smith, who has been campaigning for the introduction of a full-blown fodder support scheme, has described…

By Veronica Corr Mr. Seamus Bell, was out in Carrickmacross on Saturday night last celebrating the christening of his four-monthold twin daughters Cara and Ava, with his partner Edel Tighe and members of their family, when he was the victim of an alleged assault. The 35-year-old is now in critical condition in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, having sustained head injuries in the incident which took place at the traffic lights on the Main Street of the town at 11.30pm. Vytautas Racys, a Lithuanian man, who is married with two children and ...

A Scott Gold Medal for bravery posthumously awarded to a Monaghan-born Garda who lost his life in a booby trap bomb explosion in 1976 has been presented for temporary display at Monaghan Co Museum. Relatives of the late Garda Michael Clerkin accepted the award from Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan TD at a ceremony at the Garda College in Templemore in early December. On Thursday last, Michael’s brother Peter handed over the medal to Co Museum Curator Liam Bradley so it could go on display as part of the exhibition ...

There was standing room only at the 4 Seasons Hotel last Friday night as the great and the good were acknowledged for their excellence, both on the field of play and at administrative level, in the GAA in Monaghan during 2017. In welcoming the guests to the Annual Awards function County chairman Michael McMahon said that “a night like this is a time for reflection and recognition” as he extended a special welcome to the representative of New York GAA, Tony McKenna, the players and the greats from the past, ...