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Michael Fisher Speaking during the order of business in the Seanad last week, Monaghan Fianna Fáil Senator Robbie Gallagher made a fresh appeal for information about the disappearance of Columba McVeigh from Co. Tyrone. The youth was abducted by the IRA who killed him and secretly buried him in November 1975. Senator Gallagher stated: “At a time when news feeds are consumed with Covid-19, COP26, and the Northern Ireland protocol, it is difficult to get media attention for events that happened in our country many years ago. These are events ...

The champions dig deep after lightning-fast start by Truagh Scotstown retained their SFC title with a win over Truagh in Clones on Sunday that was hard-earned than the eventual sixpoint margin suggests. Scotstown were pushed all the way by their near-neighbours as they won their seventh county championship in the space of nine years, with a goal deep into added time by Conor McCarthy finally ending Truagh’s challenge. Kieran Hughes kicked three superb points in a Man-of-the-Match performance for the 2018 Ulster Club finalists, who came from four down early on ...

JACK MADDEN REPORTS At the beginning of the weekend just passed, a photo circulated online of the Bragan bog. One side Scotstown, one side Truagh. Over a sheugh that separates the two lay the Mick Duffy Cup, awaiting the news on his latest one-year lease. A lease solely dictated on the outcome of the Monaghan Senior Football Championship Final. On his left is the jersey of Scotstown, a child draped in the blue and white. On his right is a child from Truagh, clad in the red and black. A parish ...

By Veronica Corr Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD told The Northern Standard on Friday that he was confident that the Government’s plans for a COVID-19 booster programme would prevent the re-imposition of severe lockdown measures despite the currently high levels of Coronavirus cases: The Tánaiste said: “My expectation is that we won’t have to go backwards in terms of restrictions. The restrictions that we have in place at the moment will, more or less, remain as they are until we get through the winter. I have always felt that we had ...

New rules on recruiting workers from outside the EEA or European Economic Area which came into effect on October 28 will address skill and labour shortages across the economy, including in some key sectors of employment in Co Monaghan, Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys said this week. Minister Humphreys was welcoming changes to the work permit system introduced by Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail Damien English TD. The changes have also been greeted by the mushroom sector in Co Monaghan and by the ...

At long last, the Farney County is to have its own anthem. With sponsorship from Entekra, Co Monaghan’s global leaders in residential and commercial off-site construction, the Mad About Monaghan business promotion group this week launched A Song for Monaghan, a competition open to anyone, anywhere in the world with the objective of giving Co Monaghan an identifying musical signature tune. “The chosen song will for ever more represent this great wee Drumlin county of Monaghan,” declared Mad About Monaghan “mammy” Liz McGuinness when announcing details of the global song ...

A Standards In Public Office inquiry into complaints made against Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Seamus Treanor was adjourned on Monday to facilitate written legal submissions. The hearing arises from complaints alleging that election literature distributed by Councillor Treanor in 2019 contained “racist, dangerous and xenophobic” material. SIPO is investigating whether the material distributed during a local government election campaign contravened the Code of Conduct for local elected representatives set out in the Local Government Act. Monday’s hearing was told that Councillor Treanor stated in the election material that ...

Michael Fisher Pat Treanor, Sinn Féin Cumann Tony Ahern Cluain Eois agus Comhairle Contae Mhuineacháin spoke briefly at the party’s Ard Fheis in Dublin at the weekend about the North South interconnector. He told delegates at the Helix conference centre: “Sinn Féin have a longstanding policy position in relation to the North South interconnector, seeking that it be delivered underground. This is a vital part of infrastructure on the island of Ireland but as is currently proposed by EirGrid it doesn’t have the confidence of the local community.” “We have ...

Dundalk Institute of Technology’s advancing ambition to become a technological university was given an enthusiastic endorsement by the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday. A DkIT delegation headed by institute President Michael Mulvey found its appeal for support for the project an easy sell, with the Monaghan public representatives anticipating considerable benefits for established local businesses from the development and an enhancement of both third level educational access for local students and the county’s graduate retention figures. The view was also expressed that Co Monaghan’s longmourned failure to attract ...

The members of the delegation from Dundalk Institute of Technology who came to Monaghan Co Council on Monday to canvass support for their ambition to become a technological university for the north-east and Border region were probably taken back a little by how enthusiastically their aspiration was received and endorsed by the elected members and executive of the local authority. DkIT President Michael Mulvey and his colleagues would have been confident in the strength of their pitch but perhaps did not expect the sell to be so easy – or ...