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Monaghan Ladies’ Secretary Mary Grimes presenting the LGFA Intermediate Football Championship Cup to Scotstown capain Edel Corrigan. (report inside)© PEADAR MCMAHON

A bumper weekend of club football championship action sees no less than ten key games take place between tomorrow and Sunday. Topping the bill is Sunday’s Greenfield Foods SFC semi-final double-header in Clones, which starts with the meeting of Ballybay and Truagh. Having had a bye in the last round of the group stage, Ballybay have gone three weeks without a competitive game ahead of this meeting with a battle-hardened Truagh side. A pair of one-point wins put Ballybay in pole position in Group Two and although an understrength Pearse ...

Claims were made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council that some of the people who had recently been sleeping rough in the streets of Monaghan Town were part of an organised begging operation. “There are people with five-bedroom houses in Dublin coming into Monaghan to beg,” Independent North Monaghan local public representative Seamus Treanor alleged during a discussion on the Draft Regional Homeless Action Plan, which was presented to the meeting by Co Council Social Worker Mary Walker. The issue of rough sleepers was initially raised during the discussion ...

A large number of Co Monaghan farmers travelled to Cavan on Friday last to take part in one of four regional rallies organised by the IFA to highlight concerns over reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy and climate change measures being contemplated by the Government which the sector fears could undermine farm viability. The early morning protest saw a cavalcade of factors and other agricultural transport vehicles wend its way to Cavan Courthouse. Addressing the assembly of around 250 farmers – with Monaghan and Cavan IFA members joined by Association ...

Monaghan’s Tessa Fleming is one of the faces fronting a new bilingual television series about animals and their owners that is airing on RTÉ 1 and BBC 2 Northern Ireland. Former Northern Sound journalist Tessa is presenting Peataí!, a new six-part series broadcasting on RTÉ 1 on Fridays at 7.30 pm and on BBC 2 on Mondays at 10 pm. “Presenter Tessa is an animal fanatic and throughout the series meets owners and their beautiful pets from the four corners of Ireland,” says series producer Muireann McGinity of Big Mountain ...

The Gardaí have renewed an appeal for information regarding a fatal road traffic collision on the N2. The collision occurred at Edmonstown in Co Louth shortly before 8.30 pm on the evening of September 11 this year. A motorcycle and a car collided in the vicinity of Dooley’s Pub and Restaurant. The motorcyclist, a man in his early 20s, received critical injuries and passed away on September 13. The collision occurred on the same day as the All-Ireland Football Final between Tyrone and Mayo and Gardaí believe that spectators returning ...

Monaghan Co Council has set a target to deliver 551 social housing units in the county between 2022 and 2025. The figure is considerably above the target of 361 houses set for the local authority by the Government under its recently announced Housing for All programme. The Council delivered 431 houses over the period of the previous Rebuilding Ireland programme, exceeding its target figure by 205. The statistics were outlined during Monday’s meeting of the Council in a presentation on the new Government housing strategy and the local authority’s own ...

“In Co Monaghan we try to prevent homelessness – I see that as our major role,” Monaghan Co Council Social Worker Mary Walker told Monday’s meeting of the local authority when delivering a presentation on the Draft Homelessness Regional Action Plan. Ms Walker told the meeting that the production of a Regional Action Plan to address homelessness was a requirement of the Housing Act. The plan had to specify the measures proposed to be undertaken to address homelessness in the administrative areas of the region’s local authorities, which were responsible ...

The McKernan family from Dernahatten, led by Sean assisted by Grainne McKernan and Ellen O’Brien, are raising funds for healthcare workers in the fight against cancer. The North East Cancer Research and Education Trust (NECRET)continue to work in the field of clinical research in order to provide high quality treatment for cancer patients. The Northeast Oncology Unit is reliant on the generosity and support of people to maintain this essential service and indeed to develop it so that the best possible treatment is available to cancer patients who attend their ...

Jennifer visited Monaghan Library last Saturday and kindly donated a copy of her first book ‘The Protector and the Legend of the Swans’, which is the first of a trilogy that Jennifer is writing. Jennifer who resides in Corcaghan, has always been fascinated by Irelands past, it’s stories and legends and from this was inspired to write a trilogy of Childrens fantasy novels. Jennifer has two daughters who loved fairies when they were little. Jennifer’s eldest girl Áine was diagnosed with cancer at 3 years of age when they were ...