Articles in the General News Category

Cavan Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has told the Dáil that work must begin immediately on delivering a permanent special school in Co Monaghan – and assurances must be given that every child that requires a place in the special school must have access to it. In the last week, 18 families have received notification that their children will attend the new interim school in Castleblayney next September. Concerns about the suitability of the premises selected for the interim facility were recently voiced by a delegation from the SNAP ...

Castleblayney woman Tara Campbell has been appointed the Head of RTÉ Radio 1. RTÉ announced this week that Ms Campbell, who has been a producer on some of the broadcaster’s leading radio programmes, will take up the post with immediate effect. “Tara will have overall responsibility for the editorial leadership and programming of RTÉ Radio 1 and will play a critical role in the delivery of RTÉ’s five-year strategy, 2025 – 2029,” the broadcaster stated. Managing Editor of the station for the past five years, Ms Campbell started her career ...

Breda McCague, a Corcaghan woman and CEO of AIMING4AWESOME Ltd, based in Carrickmacross, who offers motivational speaker services and is a leadership specialist, won the Corporate and Public Sector Award at the 2025 Women Changing the World Awards ceremony, which took place recently in the very elegant Hyatt Park Hotel on the River Thames, London . The Women Changing the World Awards celebrate and recognise women achieving outstanding success in areas such as sustainability, humanitarian work, leadership, advocacy, technology, product development, education, health, and innovation. The awards recognise the growing ...

A Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis will take place in St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan tomorrow, Friday evening April 25 at 7.30 pm. Co Monaghan Catholics have united with the faithful worldwide in mourning the passing of the 88-year-old pontiff, which was announced by the Vatican on Easter Monday. The previous day Pope Francis had appeared briefly to impart an Easter Sunday blessing to the crowds gathered in St Peter’s Square in Rome. He had suffered severe health problems in recent times and had spent ...

Fianna Fáil member of Monaghan Co Council Seamus Coyle has been disqualified from holding a driving licence for a period of three years following a conviction for a drink driving offence at Cavan District Court last week. Councillor Coyle, from Mahon, Latton, Castleblayney, pleaded guilty to committing the offence in the Cootehill area of Co Cavan on April 11 last year. He was also fined €500. Judge Raymond Finnegan acceded to an application by defending solicitor Martin Cosgrove and postponed the commencement of the disqualification until September 1 next. The ...

By Veronica Corr Charlotte McEneaney, a member of Carrick Aces Athletics Club in Carrickmacross, is a force of nature, who ran her 99th marathon on Saturday and her 100th on Sunday. She is a working single mother of two children with high levels of need. She says that running helps her to avoid overwhelm and has made many friends through the healthy pastime. She always loved running as a child, but like many young women, she stopped in her teens, focussing more on studying and working part- time. At the ...

PETER HUGHES The launch of a new strategy by Monaghan Co Council, and the official opening by Minister for Rural and Community Development Dara Calleary TD of three major improvement projects at amenities across the county, have promoted the provision of high quality outdoor recreation facilities to the status of a major driver of Monaghan’s social and community development. The Co Council adopted its new five-year Outdoor Recreation Plan for the county at its April meeting, two days before Minister Calleary cut the ribbons on significant enhancement projects carried out ...

PETER HUGHES Monaghan Co Council had removed almost 2,000 names of people deemed ineligible to vote from the county’s electoral register since October of last year. It was stated in the management report before Monday’s meeting of the local authority that work to remove ineligible electors formed part of a new LGERS or Local Government Electoral Registration System project. The report said that another 500 names were currently in the active deletion process – legislation required that the Council make three documented attempts to contact an elector prior to their ...

• Minister for Rural and Community Development Dara Calleary TD is pictured at the Monaghan Peace Campus yesterday, Wednesday performing the official launch of the Action Plan prepared for Co Monaghan under the PEACEPLUS EU funding initiative. The launch was also addressed by Gyna McIntyre, Chief Executive of the Special EU Programmes Body and attended by national and local political representatives, community leaders and senior members of the local authority executive. Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill MLA and Deputy First Minister Emma Little- Pangelly MLA also delivered endorsements of ...

By Veronica Corr For one weekend only, Gwen Corrigan from Truagh will reprise her fundraising party piece from almost 30 years ago – she will spend the weekend in a tree! The last time Gwen spent the weekend in a no-frills treehouse, or birdhouse as she prefers to call it, she was in the same tree in St. Mellan’s Park. In the run-up to a landmark birthday, Gwen was asked what she would like to do to celebrate – and she responded by saying she’d like to spend the weekend ...