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Co Monaghan had much to celebrate when the results of the 2021 national Tidy Towns competition were announced by Cavan/Monaghan TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys on Monday last. The North Monaghan village of Glaslough might have handed over its national crown to Ennis in Co Clare, but the Tidy Towns committee there was celebrating its achievement as inaugural winners of the national Young Persons in Tidy Towns Awards. Glaslough also took the top award in the Northwest and West category and retained its county title status, joining Carrickmacross as ...

There will be free Christmas parking in Monaghan Town from Monday December 12 until Sunday January 2, it was announced at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. Cathaoirleach David Maxwell said free parking would be available from noon until 6 pm in the town over the designated period. “We hope this will help the traders in the town and help the town over the Christmas period,” the Cathaoirleach stated. The Co-ordinator’s Report before the meeting stated that tenders had been received and evaluated for the erection and maintenance of ...

The Border Communities Against Brexit campaign group will stage a series of demonstrations in Border locations on Saturday next, November 20 at 3 pm to oppose the threat by the UK Government to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Brexit Protocol. “We are asking everyone living along the Border, on either side, to make an effort to attend their nearest demonstration,” BCAB Chairperson Declan Fearon told the Northern Standard this week. “We are calling on all trade unions, representative groups, civic leaders, sporting organisations and citizens to join with ...

Colm Shalvey reports Almost two years since a ball was kicked in the Ulster Club Football Championships, Seán McDermotts and Cookstown get the highlyanticipated 2021 provincial series underway in Clones this Saturday. After Blackhill and Magheracloone claimed a memorable Ulster JFC and IFC double in 2019, the condensed 2020 season left no room for the ubercompetitive provincial championships, meaning Scotstown, Monaghan Harps and Aughnamullen didn’t get the chance to bid for further titles. Seán McDermotts will now bid to become the seventh Monaghan club to win the Ulster JFC, but to ...

COLM SHALVEY The Owen Ward Cup will be presented for the first time since 2019 when Clontibret and Scotstown contest the Shoe City Senior Football League Final in Castleblayney tomorrow night (Friday). After the condensed 2020 season left no room for the club leagues, they returned this June, with the group stages being wrapped up prior to the championships starting. Clontibret and Scotstown have both reached this stage the hard way. Having overcome the absence of their sizable county contingents to finish third in their respective groups, the teams have come ...

The Peace Campus project currently being developed in Monaghan Town would epitomise the “future of promise and healing, reconciliation and hope” on the island of Ireland, Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD stated when he addressed a conference in Monaghan Co Museum on Friday last. In his speech to the “Experiences of Border minority communities – historical perspectives” conference staged at the Museum as part of the ongoing State programme to mark the Decade of Centenaries, the Taoiseach also reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to the realisation of the Ulster Canal restoration project ...

By Veronica Corr This beautiful photograph by Rory Geary, depicts one of Fianna Fáil’s youngest supporters presenting the Taoiseach Micheál Martin with a bouquet of flowers on Friday afternoon last. The little girl is Juliet Smyth, Deputy Niamh Smyth’s daughter. Deputy Smyth organised the event with Knockbride Cumainn. Juliet made the presentation to the Fianna Fáil leader at the centenary commemoration of her great-granduncle being sentenced to death during the War of Independence on charge of High Treason. She also dressed in a contemporary costume circa 1921 to mark the ...

Ballybay’s Kepak also benefits from Capital Investment funding €5 million in funding for North Monaghan’s Silver Hill Foods was announced on Tuesday as part of a Government package designed to assist companies in the meat and dairy sectors with development and diversification measures to counter the negative impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union. Keepak in Ballybay is to receive €916,919 from the Government’s “Capital Investment Scheme for the Processing and Marketing of Agricultural Products”. Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue TD said the €70 million funding package, to be split ...

A statement of gratitude was issued by businessman Kevin Lunney on Monday last following the handing down of verdicts in the case before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin arising from his abduction and torture in September of 2019. Three men were found guilty of offences arising from the incident, while a fourth was acquitted. The 51-year-old was an executive at Quinn Industrial Holdings when he was bundled into the boot of a car on September 17 2019 by a number of assailants. Calling on him repeatedly to resign as ...

Gardaí in Monaghan yesterday made an urgent “Lock Up, Light Up” appeal to householders after a spate of break-in and domestic robbery incidents in the Monaghan and Cavan areas in recent weeks. A Garda spokesman told the Northern Standard that the advent of darker evenings was apparently being availed of by opportunistic but well-organised thieves to steal cash and valuables from homes which were obviously unoccupied. “We are asking people to make sure their homes are not left in darkness when they are out, particularly in the period when darkness ...