Articles in the General News Category

The IDA is currently positively engaged in discussions with an Enterprise Ireland company about the use of the 1,400 square metre Advance Technology Building at the Knockaconny industrial park on the outskirts of Monaghan Town. This was disclosed by Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton TD when the issue was raised with her in Seanad Éireann last week by Monaghan Senator Robbie Gallagher. Senator Gallagher told the Minister of State that a “very impressive, brand-spanking-new IDA advanced technology building” was completed in Monaghan in 2021 but had been lying idle waiting ...

MAITIU MONAGHAN It’s the nature of the new All-Ireland beast that Monaghan are forced to get straight back onto the horse, and solidify their place in the knockout stages of the All-Ireland series. The prospect of facing Clare on the bank holiday weekend initially perked the interest of Monaghan fans. There were dreams of a weekend away in Ennis or Killaloe. Alas, the fixtures did not fall that way. Instead, Monaghan are dreaming of another weekend, a bit further down the line, in North Dublin for All-Ireland quarter-final weekend, at the ...

Spryt, the Monaghan Town-based digital healthcare company that has made a major impact with its AI solution to the problem of hospital appointment cancellations, has been honoured at the National Enterprise Awards. The company, founded by Daragh Donohoe and Neill Dunwoody in 2022, was announced as the overall winner at a gala awards ceremony at Dublin’s Mansion House. Earlier this year they had taken the top honours at the Co Monaghan Enterprise Awards. Their national accolade will see the company share in a €50,000 investment fund. Spryt aims to simplify ...

PETER HUGHES Ireland operates to the same level of local democratic decision-making as applies in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, a special meeting of Monaghan Co Council was told on Monday. Fianna Fáil local public representative P J O’Hanlon made the declaration as the Council convened to formally adopt the 2025-2031 Monaghan Co Development Plan, bringing to an end a two- year process described by Senior Planner Adrian Hughes as being unprecedented in the level of engagement and input the plan had received from councillors. The document sets ...

By Veronica Corr Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan addressed Dáil Éireann on Tuesday, 27th May to issue an apology to the family of Shane O’Farrell, a 23-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run outside Carrickmacross on August 2nd 2011, by a serial offender whom it is accepted should have been in jail at the time of the law graduate’s unlawful killing when he was cycling home. The Taoiseach and Tánaiste endorsed the State apology delivered by the Minister for Justice. The O’Farrell family were present to witness the apology ...

Fragments of human remains have been located at a site being investigated in Annyalla Cemetery in Co Monaghan as part of a search being conducted by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains, which is seeking to locate the bodies of those “disappeared” during the Northern Ireland Troubles. The search has taken place at what the ICLVR said was “a small area of interest” within the confines of the cemetery but not a family grave site. Earlier this year remains were exhumed from a grave in the cemetery ...

• Our picture by Rory Geary shows Cathaoirleach of the Monaghan Municipal District Councillor Seán Conlon laying a wreath at the memorial in Church Square to the victims of the 1974 no-warning car bomb attack in Monaghan Town during a ceremony last Saturday to mark the 51st anniversary of the Monaghan and Dublin attacks that led to the greatest loss of life on a single day during the Troubles period. Co Monaghan was also represented at memorial events which took place in Dublin on Saturday. Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan ...

Yesterday evening (Wednesday), after this newspaper went to press, there was a peaceful assembly in Castleblayney, which met at the Glencarn Hotel for 7pm and marched up to old Convent building in the town, which is allegedly earmarked to house International Protection applicants.

PETER HUGHES What is being promoted as a golden opportunity for private householders and owners of business and community premises in Monaghan Town to climb on board the energy retrofit train was unveiled in the Monaghan Peace Campus last Friday. MABRI or the Monaghan Area-Based Retrofit Initiative is a regional pilot scheme focused initially in the designated Decarbonisation Zone of Monaghan Town. Monaghan Co Council and SSE Airtricity have put out an expressions of interest call and an information and recruitment event is taking place in the Peace Campus on ...

Deep shock and sadness in the Magheracloone and wider area of Co Monaghan have ensued following news of the death of a young local man in an apparent swimming tragedy while holidaying in Portugal . Dylan McCahey, in his early 20s, from Tonaneave, Magheracloone, was on a short holiday break on the Portuguese west coast when the tragic incident occurred on Saturday. The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed in a statement that they had been made aware of the circumstances surrounding the tragedy and were providing consular assistance to the ...