Articles in the General News Category

COLM SHALVEY Monaghan got their hands on the first silverware of the year at Healy Park last Saturday, but it wouldn’t have taken long after the McKenna Cup presentation for attentions to turn to another trip to Omagh to take on All-Ireland champions Tyrone in the first round of the Allianz NFL this Sunday. JEKYLL AND HYDE Monaghan looked like a doubledigits victory wasn’t beyond them when they led by 1-10 to 0-4 early in the second half, but they were left clinging on for a one-point win in the end ...

COLM SHALVEY The 2022 Allianz NFL gets underway this weekend with the first round of a return to a full seven-game series. Monaghan’s eighth consecutive spring in Division One features Ulster derbies away to Tyrone (this Sunday in Omagh), Armagh and Donegal, as well as a trip to Newbridge to face newly-promoted Kildare. Monaghan’s home games (against three of last year’s All-Ireland semi-finalists: Mayo, Kerry and Dublin) are all set for Clones. The last round of group fixtures will take place on the last Sunday in March, with the top two ...

The IDA’s record of attracting foreign direct investment to Co Monaghan was branded “dismal” by Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Matt Carthy this week. Deputy Carthy said the IDA – or Industrial Development Authority – had failed Co Monaghan, bring just ten new jobs in foreign direct investment here in 2019 and 2020, and termed the IDA’s FDI policy “badly balanced in regional terms”. Commenting on information provided to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Carthy said: “There were 23,791 new FDI ...

Strong demands were made at national political level this week for immediate improvements in the resources and facilities available to victims of domestic violence in Co Monaghan. Sinn Féin TDs for Cavan/Monaghan Matt Carthy and Pauline Tully, and Fianna Fáil Deputy for the constituency Brendan Smith, have all made calls for urgent action to address the lack of a domestic violence refuge in the county and to have greater supports introduced for victims and survivors. Deputy Carthy, speaking in the Dáil on a Sinn Féin Private Members Motion introduced following ...

An allocation in excess of €2.5 million for the development of walking and cycling infrastructure in Co Monaghan was announced this week. The funding for Monaghan Co Council was announced by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD on Monday in a high-profile media event further underscoring the Green Party influence on the Government’s transport investment policies. €200,000 is to be spent upgrading the Monaghan Town Greenway, with a further €100,000 allocated to the upgrade of the Greenway along the N2. €56,000 is also included in the funding package for the ...

Michel Fisher The Utility Regulator for Northern Ireland (UREGNI) which is responsible for how the electricity industry is run has proposed major changes to how the grid operator SONI is governed. As The Northern Standard reported at the time, a detailed report by the regulator last year found that the System Operator for NI is insufficiently independent of its parent company in Dublin, EirGrid. UREGNI said this might have led to consumers in the North being overcharged for their electricity. The Regulator is now proposing that SONI should have an ...

A gala event that will bring to a conclusion the search for a definitive anthem for the Farney County will be “a celebration of all things Monaghan”, Liz McGuinness of the Mad About Monaghan (MAM) group told the Northern Standard this week. The winning entry in the Entekra-sponsored Monaghan Anthem International Song Contest, which has sparked a truly global level of interest since its inception, will be revealed at a spectacular function in Monaghan Town’s Four Seasons Hotel on Sunday May 1. The deadline for Monaghan Anthem entries has been ...

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By Veronica Corr On Tuesday social media lit up, with a quirky video posted by Gardaí in Carrickmacross, who apprehended a Shetland Pony on Main Street in the early hours of the morning. The chestnut stallion had apparently escaped from his paddock on the Shercock Road and made his way into town where he was playing havoc with traffic (according to the Cavan Monaghan Garda Division Facebook page). Gardaí were keen to reunite the handsome fellow with his owner, who turned out to be local man Pat Cassidy. Tony the ...

Deep sorrow and regret across Monaghan Town and the much wider circle of his acquaintance greeted the news of the passing this week of Hugh Coyle of Latlurcan. A proud member of the Monaghan Arch Club and the Monaghan Rehab Care organisation, one of the most devoted supporters of Monaghan Harps GFC and an enthusiast of, and active participant in, all the major annual community events of Monaghan, Hugh was one of the most widely known personalities of the town of recent times and his passing at Cavan General Hospital ...