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COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Ballybay are in their third county final in five years and one win short of bridging a tenyear gap after an impressive second-half surge took care of Clontibret in Clones on Sunday. Clontibret, who won by the narrowest of margins when the teams met in the group stage, led throughout the first half, but Ballybay outscored them by 1-10 to 0-2 from the 37th minute on, with a late goal from Dessie Ward sealing it at the end of a game that featured a series of nearmisses at ...

COLM SHALVEY The Greenfield Foods SFC relegation group concludes on Saturday. Back-to-back wins have Donaghmoyne top ahead of a repeat of the 2021 IFC Final v Aughnamullen, while the other game is a fourth meeting this year between Carrickmacross and Castleblayney. Donaghmoyne’s sizable score-difference advantage means they are as good as safe, barring a heavy defeat, leaving the other three teams playing to stay in the top flight. Aughnamullen’s defeat to Carrickmacross last time out leaves them in third place on head-to-head rule, but wins for both teams on Saturday would ...

A very tight schedule confronted the completion of a new public car-parking facility at the Broad Road in Monaghan Town in time for the Christmas trading period, it emerged at Tuesday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. The Broad Road car-park development had now been submitted for Part VIII planning approval and a decision on this was due to be made at the November meeting of Monaghan Co Council, it was stated at the meeting in response to a written question submitted by the Cathaoirleach, Fianna Fáil representative Raymond Aughey. ...

Planning permission is due to be sought from Monaghan Co Council for the development of a now disused ambulance base at the entrance of Monaghan Hospital into a new chronic disease facility. Funding has been approved for bringing the building back into use as part of an Integrated Care Programme for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease being developed between Cavan and Monaghan Hospitals. A design team has been appointed for the project. Subject to planning permission the works will go to tender and are expected to take six-eight ...

The Government unveiled a 2023 Budget on Tuesday containing €4.1 billion in spending measures aimed at carrying the country through the escalating cost of living crisis predicted in the coming months and avoiding a winter of discontent. Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys, who announced measures of €2.2 billion including a number of lump sum payments to “ease the pressure and stress that many households are facing”, said the Budget would deliver significant benefits for the people of her constituency. But the constituency’s Sinn Féin ...

The raising of the Canadian flag by Ambassador Nancy Smyth at the Monaghan Courthouse forecourt in Monaghan Town on Friday last symbolically signified the reinvigoration of the close bonds between the county and her host country which were placed in a state of enforced stasis during the Covid-19 pandemic period. Ambassador Smyth was making her first visit to Co Monaghan since taking up her post in June of 2021. All of her recent predecessors had come to the county in recognition of the twinning relationship established between Monaghan and communities ...

Cathaoirleach Raymond Aughey moved at Tuesday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District to revive discussions on the provision of a major relief road development that would address mounting traffic congestion problems in the Monaghan area. A relief road scheme was brought to an advanced stage by the local authority almost 20 years ago but agreement on the proposed route was unable to be reached and the project fell into abeyance. At Tuesday’s MD meeting in Ballinode, the Fianna Fáil local public representative successfully moved a motion asking that the Roads ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Monaghan’s lengthy search for a new senior football manager finally ended last Thursday when former stalwart player Vinnie Corey was appointed as Séamus McEnaney’s successor. Almost three months after ‘Banty’ stepped down in the wake of Monaghan’s championship exit with a qualifier defeat away to Mayo, the county board turned to Corey, whose Clontibret side are in SFC semi-final action this Sunday. The versatile Corey retired from the inter-county scene as recently as 2019 after making a record 184 appearances and he soon found himself back involved with ...

Tributes have been paid to Mr John McAnespie of Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, who passed away on Monday last, September 19. Mr McAnespie’s son Aidan was shot dead at a Border crossing on the Monaghan Road in Aughnacloy on February 21 1988. The killing instigated a long campaign for justice in which John and other family members have played a pivotal part. A verdict is soon to be delivered in the case of a British Army veteran accused of Aidan McAnespie’s manslaughter. The Relatives For Justice group, which works with individuals ...

The frustration existing in Monaghan Town and Carrickmacross over the protracted delays in having CCTV systems made operational in the towns as an anti-crime measure was aired in the Seanad this week by Fianna Fáil Senator for Cavan/Monaghan Robbie Gallagher. Senator Gallagher called for action to be taken at Government level to expedite the projects.. “We all know CCTV is an invaluable tool in deterring people from engaging in offences and public disorder,” he told the Seanad. “It is also a valuable tool when a crime is committed or when ...