Articles in the General News Category

A senior spokesperson for Monaghan Fire and Civil Protection confirmed that the service received an emergency callout on Saturday evening, January 14th at 7.53pm, regarding a house fire at a single-storey cottage in the Lisinisky, Cortober area of Bawn. Two fire crews from Ballybay and Carrickmacross attended the scene and extinguished the fire aided by the use of breathing apparatus. Gardaí are investigating the cause of the fire. The deceased man, Sean Geraghty, a native of Oldcastle, Co, Meath, was aged in his sixties and lived alone. He received treatment ...

The revival of the Féile Oriel traditional music festival which was once a staple feature of the cultural calendar in North Monaghan is set for April 28-30 next. The prestigious Fiddler of Oriel competitive centrepiece of the event has also been restored, and will have its grand finale on the final day of the occasion. Entries for the competition opened yesterday, Wednesday January 18 and will close on midnight on Tuesday February 28. The first Féile Oriel was held in Monaghan in 1969 and the event quickly became an essential ...

The development of the Ulster Canal Greenway from Monaghan to Middletown has been thrown into doubt after funder SEUPB or the Special EU Programmes Body has indicated that the timeline for the delivery of the project through INTERREG funding is no longer viable. Land acquisition difficulties for the Northern Ireland section of the development have brought about the situation, last week’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council was informed. The Council has commenced discussions with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to see if they will fund the section of the greenway up to ...

“There in his noisy mansion, skill’d to rule, The village master taught his little school…” Something of the wistfulness of the famous Oliver Goldsmith poem The Deserted Village was evoked in Rockcorry on Tuesday when pupils assisted their principal Donal Quigley in transferring materials from the old School Mhuire national school building on its last day of use. When pupils and principal return in around a year’s time, it will be to a new five-classroom development recently conferred formal approval by Minister for Education Norma Foley TD which promises to ...

Castleblayney College students Caoimhe Quinn and Hannah Quinn were prizewinners at the 2023 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition which took place in the RDS in Dublin last week. The students were highly commended in the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences category for their project “U’Ve Been Framed?” Students from Largy College, Clones, Castleblayney College, Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney, Coláiste Dún an Rí, Kingscourt, Loreto College, Cavan and Breifne College, Cavan were also participants in the competition. Shane O’Connor and Liam Carew, aged 19 and in sixth year in the ...

Co Monaghan roadusers have been advised to exercise continuing caution as severe weather conditions extend into the coming days. A further Status Yellow warning in relation to ice and low temperatures was issued nationwide yesterday, Wednesday and was expected to remain in place until at least midday today, Thursday. Monaghan Co Council advised drivers and pedestrians to be mindful of road conditions and called on the public at large to be “winter ready”. Met Éireann has warned of treacherous conditions on roads and footpaths, travel disruption and potential supply disruption. ...

The members of Monaghan Co Council agreed on Monday to make a significant financial commitment in order to ensure that the BioConnect project being developed at Knockaconny in Monaghan Town is successfully completed. Rising construction costs have necessitated the seeking of additional Enterprise Ireland investment in order to complete the building of the new agri-food research initiative which has promised to deliver a significant level of graduate employment for the county and which lists some of the county’s foremost food businesses among its stakeholders. On Monday the Co Council agreed ...

A 43-year-old haulier with addresses in Monaghan and Armagh was ordered at the Old Bailey in London last week to pay more than £180,000 in compensation to the families of 39 men, women and children from Vietnam who were found dead in the sealed refrigeration container of a lorry on October 23 2019 while being smuggled into the UK. Ronan Hughes, with addresses in Armagh and Leitrim, Silverstream, Tyholland, Co Monaghan had pleaded guilty last year to 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiring to bring people into the United Kingdom ...

The refusal by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to sanction the raising of a €38 million loan by Monaghan Co Council to build new civic offices has not translated into a reduction in the bill to be faced by ratepayers in Co Monaghan in 2023. The Co Council’s elected members voted at their meeting on Monday not to return the portion of the 5% rates increase (2.8%) introduced for this year through a rebate, but to retain the money in order to advance the civic offices project ...

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision in County Monaghan on Saturday, 7th January, 2023. At approximately 9:20pm, Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to a collision involving a car and a stray horse on the northbound lane of the N2 at Creevy near Carrickmacross. The front seat passenger in the car, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. The two other occupants in the car, both adult males, were assessed at the scene by Emergency ...