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McEnaney’s side front-runner in Intermediate relegation group COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Corduff took a major step towards retaining their Intermediate status with a convincing win away to Killanny last Saturday. Goals in either half by Jason Hand and Michael Connolly, along with eight points from placed kicks by Fergal Hanratty, proved enough for Corduff in a tense encounter where no player scored more than once from play. Despite not getting on the scoresheet, Keith McEnaney was an effective focal point in the Corduff attack, while Pádraic Keenan also played a key role from ...

… and Sean McDermotts face Toome in Junior decider COLM SHALVEY REPORTS The Senior and Junior Football Championship Finals will both feature first-time pairings after last weekend’s semi-final double-headers. Truagh are into their third SFC Final – and their first since 2001 – after they produced another strong finish to oust Ballybay. The Pearse Brothers raced into a 1-5 to 0-1 lead, but they were unable to maintain the tempo they set early on, as they only managed to score another two points across the remaining three quarters of the game. With ...

The elected members of the Monaghan Municipal District agreed on Monday to seek a meeting with retail group Aldi to see if they would agree to reactivating the local authority lease on the Mc- Nally’s car-park in Monaghan Town on a short-term basis to cover the Christmas and New Year period. Aldi acquired the car-park location with a view to developing a retail outlet there but continued to lease it to Monaghan Co Council for car-parking purposes. However, Aldi announced in September that they were halting plans to develop a ...

The World Restart a Heart Day message of the importance of having knowledge of CPR techniques was movingly encapsulated at an event at Castleblayney Ambulance Station on Saturday when a two-year-old local girl had the opportunity to say thank you to some of those who helped save her life last August. Little Therese Hickey almost drowned in a pool at the family home but thanks to the CPR administered by her mother Melinda with the help of a neighbour and the expedient response to the emergency by paramedics and Gardaí ...

Belfast Court Case Clears the Way for EirGrid to Proceed Michael Fisher The North South interconnector project has been given the green light to proceed as a result of a court case in Belfast. Mr Justice Scoffield refused to quash planning permission for the multi-million Euro project in the North, although he identified a legal flaw in the ministerial decision-making process. EirGrid’s Chief Executive Mark Foley indicated earlier this month the crossborder project would ramp up very considerably once the company got a positive outcome from the judicial process in Northern ...

the road and entered the ditch on the N12 at Knockaconny outside Monaghan Town on Tuesday morning was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The body of the man, in his 60s, was removed to the mortuary of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where a post mortem is expected to take place. No one else was injured and no other vehicles were involved in the incident, which occurred around 7.20 am. Gardaí and emergency services attended at the scene. The Monaghan to Armagh road was closed ...

An outline of ongoing works to progress the regeneration plans for the Dublin Street area of Monaghan Town was provided at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District in response to a question submitted by Sinn Féin representative Seán Conlon. In relation to the regeneration proposals for the south of Dublin Street and its backlands, the response to Councillor Conlon’s question stated: “RPS Design Consultants are continuing to progress detailed designs for road/footpath infrastructure, utility services, street furniture, landscaping and various other elements within the regeneration scheme. The Design Team ...

Michael Fisher The latest figures for Covid cases show that the incidence rate in County Monaghan per 100,000 population over fourteen days is slightly above the national average. The statistics released on Tuesday by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre show that the rate in the past fortnight up until midnight on Monday was 549, compared to a figure of 518 that was reported last week. This includes 337 reported cases of Covid-19 out of a total of 23,477. Five weeks ago Monaghan was topping the table with a rate of ...

A desire for Monaghan Co Council to play a role in the removal of racist graffiti which appeared in the county was one of the issues identified during the public consultation process for the new local authority Litter Management Plan which was formally adopted by the members of the Council at their recent October meeting. The plan was the subject of a detailed presentation to the meeting by the Council’s Environmental Awareness Officer Sharon Finnegan. The plan, which will run from 2021 to 2023, has as its primary objective the ...

A 26-year-old woman who tendered a written apology to a sittings of the Circuit Criminal Court in Monaghan Town for causing the death of a friend in a road traffic accident at M a g h e r n a k i l l , Castleblayney on July 30 2012 was yesterday given a 12-month suspended prison sentence by Judge John Aylmer. Colleen McCann, of Drumacon, Castleblayney and with an address at Newry, Co Down, had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving causing the death of 17-year-old Ciaran ...