Articles in the General News Category

Graced by perfect summer weather, a prodigious attendance and the drama and delight generated by the exacting standards pertaining across its wide range of competitive classes, Saturday’s 72nd Tydavnet Show can be inarguably pronounced one of the most successful in the recent history of this celebration of North Co Monaghan rural vibrancy. The ascendant stature of the event in the Irish show calendar was reflected in its hosting this year of two All-Ireland finals: one in photography and the other in the equestrian sphere, the Three-Year-Old Filly Championship. The event ...

A week ago, it seemed like never and now it seems only a matter of time – former Cavan/Monaghan TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys looks increasingly assured of receiving the nomination of the Fine Gael party to be their candidate in the election of the new President of Ireland in October of this year. After days of intense speculation engendered by the withdrawal last Thursday of the party’s Mairead McGuinness from the contest for health reasons, former Minister Humphreys confirmed her decision to seek the nomination as McGuinness’s replacement ...

A man in his 40s arrested in Co Monaghan on Sunday in connection with the discovery of a number of attempted improvised explosive devices has been released without charge . Gardaí have described the investigation of the discovery of a number of devices at locations in the north-east and south-west in the past month as ongoing and said that a file was being prepared for submission to the Director of Public Prosecutions. One of the suspect devices was discovered at ….

PETER HUGHES Monaghan Co Council has appealed to people interested in availing of the affordable purchase housing option to submit responses to the survey recently opened in relation to the development of a scheme of this nature in Carrickmacross. The survey went live on Tuesday June 24 and remains open until Friday July 18 and is accessible in the relevant section of the Monaghan Co Council website. While its immediate purpose is to determine the level of interest in a future affordable housing scheme in Carrickmacross, people from other parts ...

As we reach the height of the summer season and demand on our water sources increases, Uisce Éireann is appealing to customers in Monaghan to be mindful of their water use. A number of supplies across the county are already experiencing increased demand and customers can help reduce that demand by adopting simple water saving practices at home, in the garden and at work. Peter Gallagher, Uisce Éireann’s Water Network Operations Manager in Cavan and Monaghan, explained that levels in many water sources are significantly lower than normal for this ...

The purpose of a new link road project about to get underway in the Rooskey area in Monaghan Town, and how it appeared to have progressed with alacrity when other link road needs in the area remained outstanding, were issues raised by elected representatives at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Independent councillor Seamus Treanor asked the executive what was the point of the road at Rooskey Vale, referring to an email he had received in relation to the project. “Three weeks from the start of work we are sent ...

Monaghan Co Council faces the prospect of having to revisit and revise its recently adopted Co Development Plan. This follows correspondence issued to the local authority on Friday last by Minister for Local Government James Browe TD on foot of concerns raised with him by the watchdog body the Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR). The OPR is seeking the removal from the Monaghan plan of two material contraventions voted through by the elected Council members against the recommendation of the senior Council executive and planning officials. One of the ...

The purpose of a new link road project about to get underway in the Rooskey area in Monaghan Town, and how it appeared to have progressed with alacrity when other link road needs in the area remained outstanding, were issues raised by elected representatives at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Independent councillor Seamus Treanor asked the executive what was the point of the road at Rooskey Vale, referring to an email he had received in relation to the project. “Three weeks from the start of work we are sent ...

Representatives of Monaghan Co Council held discussions with the Northern Ireland Minister for Infrastructure Liz Kimmins MLA n Stormont on Tuesday following the ruling in the High Court the previous day that the upgrade of the A5 road should not go ahead in its current form because it was not in compliance with climate change targets . Co Council Cathaoirleach P J O’Hanlon, Sinn Féin councillor Noel Keelan and Independent local public representative Seamus Treanor, along with members of the Council executive, attended an emergency debate in the North Assembly ...

On Sunday next, 29 June 2025 – Feast of Saints Peter and Paul – the Diocese of Clogher will celebrate the Ordination of Stephen Sherry from the Parish of Tullycorbet for service as a Deacon. Stephen is a seminarian at St Patrick’s College Maynooth, where he has completed his studies for the Priesthood in the diocese. The ordination Mass will be celebrated in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan at 3 pm this Sunday. The Bishop of Clogher, Bishop Larry Duffy, will be the ordaining prelate and he will be joined by ...