Articles in the General News Category

The Cavan/Monaghan constituency will experience significant benefits from projects targeted for over €50 million investment in the latest funding announcement under the Shared Island initiative, Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith told the Northern Standard this week. “The funding announcement sets out an ambitious, cross- Government programme of work, which will bring communities, North and South, together to work on shared strategic priorities to build consensus around a shared future on the island, underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement,” Deputy Smith stated. “The Shared Island Initiative is proof of Fianna Fail’s ...

Monaghan Co Council is to make a funding application to the EU in a bid to get the major Clontibret to the Border road project on the N2 out of limbo. The local authority is currently preparing its application for the Connecting Europe Facility, which is described by the European Commission as “a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted infrastructure investment at European level. It supports the development of high performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and ...

The retirement of Eamonn O’Sullivan as Chief Executive of Monaghan Co Council led to tributes to his achievements during a seven-year tenure in the post when the news was conveyed to the members of the Council at their December meeting, held at the Sliabh Beagh Hotel in Knockatallon on Monday last. Mr O’Sullivan’s contribution to the development of a number of major capital developments in the county, some completed and some heading for realisation, and his establishment of a recently newlook and gender-balanced senior management team were noted, as were ...

Current Bishop of Down and Connor, Most Reverend Noel Treanor from Tyholland in Co Monaghan has been elevated to Archbishop and appointed by Pope Francis as the Vatican’s ambassador to the European Union. Archbishop Treanor, who is 71, will take up the position of Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union in January, continuing to preside in his Northern Ireland diocese until a successor is appointed. Prior to his appointment to Down and Connor, the new Archbishop served as Secretary General of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of the EU. ...

Co Monaghan people were this week asked to use the Minor Injury Unit at Monaghan Hospital or avail of the services of their local GPs for non-urgent medical care because of severe delays being experienced at Cavan Hospital’s Emergency Department. The public have been asked not to attend at Cavan Hospital “except in cases of real and genuine emergency”. The hospital has warned that those with non-urgent conditions will experience very long waiting times before being seen. Cavan Hospital is experiencing an increase in winter flu and Covid-19 presentations. A ...

A former British soldier has been convicted of the manslaughter of 23-year-old Aiden McAnespie on the Monaghan-Tyrone Border at Aughnacloy in February 1988. In a verdict delivered at Belfast Crown Court on Friday last, Mr Justice John O’Hara said he was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that David Jonathan Holden, aged 53 and with an address given as c/o Chancery House, Victoria Street, Belfast, had been guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence. Aidan McAnespie was shot in the back moments after walking through a Border security checkpoint on his way to ...

A flow of tributes has followed the news of the passing of former GAA President and Monaghan county football team manager Seán McCague. Mr McCague, from Stracrunnion, Scotstown, passed away on Thursday November 24 last at St Mary’s Hospital in Castleblayney. He was aged 77. In addition to his achievements as a player, manager and administrator in Gaelic football, he has been remembered as an educationalist and for the role he played in the campaign to preserve services at Monaghan Hospital. Mr McCague is survived by wife Bernie and children ...

Emyvale furniture designer Barry Todd has been announced as a recipient of an Emerging Maker Residencies & Training Award by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland at a ceremony in Dublin’s National Gallery. A media release stated: Barry’s Studio Kinnard workshop designs with excellence in mind, using unique highquality hardwood furniture with a focus on clean lines and considered details. Barry’s recent work has been an exploration of curves and carving to enhance the wood’s natural features, aiming in every piece to craft simple, expressive forms that are pleasing ...

Minister for Rural and Community Development, local TD Heather Humphreys, has announced almost €780,000 in funding for outdoor recreation projects in Co Monaghan. The major investment, under the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme, came as Minister Humphreys launched Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors – the country’s first ever national outdoor recreation strategy. In Monaghan, funding of €500,000 will be invested in upgrading the trails on Black Island, Lough Muckno. A further €200,000 will be invested in Dartrey Forest, with the funding being used to provide play areas and picnic access. Meanwhile, €79,962 will ...

Men’s health was to the forefront last week, thanks to the Crocus Men’s Den, as the Movember campaign enters its last week. Monaghan town was centre stage for a range of events highlighting men’s health. First up was a presentation to staff at the magnificent Combilift global headquarters, where Kevin O’Hagan Irish Cancer Sosiety, Kevin Curran, H.S.E and Martin Maguire from Crocus Men’s Den spoke to a near capacity conference room within the very impressive complex, on the importance of health awareness among men. Next up was Thursday’s information evening ...