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GARDAÍ AND NYPD PARADE IN MONAGHAN MARKS HOMECOMING OF PROJECT CHILDREN TO PEACE CAMPUS

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21 Oct 2025 No Comment
GARDAÍ AND NYPD PARADE IN MONAGHAN MARKS HOMECOMING OF PROJECT CHILDREN TO PEACE CAMPUS

By Veronica Corr The cultural partnership between Project Children and Monaghan County Council promised a spectacle never before witnessed in Monaghan and on Wednesday, October 7th it delivered, with a Transatlantic parade marking the launch of ‘The Project Children Stories: A legacy of peace lives on in Monaghan’ at the Peace Campus incorporating Monaghan County Museum. A total of 320 visitors made the sentimental journey from America, all of them possessing a connection to this remarkable programme, which changed the lives of everyone who took part. Project Children, a grassroots ...

CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON FLOODING ISSUES AS STORM AMY VISITS HAVOC ON COUNTY

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13 Oct 2025 No Comment
CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON FLOODING ISSUES AS STORM AMY VISITS HAVOC ON COUNTY

The series of calls for urgent action to resolve flooding issues in Monaghan Town and other parts of the county and address the threat to overhead powerlines from roadside trees made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council articulated concerns being voiced across the county in the aftermath of the visitation of the severe weather event Storm Amy on Friday last. The Council members and executive also echoed the wider public disaffection with the belated severe weather warnings for Co Monaghan issued by Met Éireann which left the county largely ...

SHOCK AND SADNESS GREET THE PASSING OF THE COUNCILLOR FROM CORCAGHAN

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3 Oct 2025 Comments Off on SHOCK AND SADNESS GREET THE PASSING OF THE COUNCILLOR FROM CORCAGHAN
SHOCK AND SADNESS GREET THE PASSING OF THE COUNCILLOR FROM CORCAGHAN

News of the death yesterday, Wednesday morning at Cavan General Hospital of former Monaghan Co Council member Hugh McElvaney sent a wave of sadness emanating from his beloved Corcaghan bailiwick across Co Monaghan and much further beyond. A Co Councillor from 1974 until 2024, first for Fine Gael and latterly in Independent livery, Hughie’s half-century of service as a local public representative encompassed enough conquest, colour, controversy and campaigning to fill the entire column inches of this newspaper. In the limited time and space available to us this week, it ...

NEW GARDA COMMISSIONER SIGNS-OFF ON PUBLIC CCTV SYSTEM FOR CARRICKMACROSS

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3 Oct 2025 Comments Off on NEW GARDA COMMISSIONER SIGNS-OFF ON PUBLIC CCTV SYSTEM FOR CARRICKMACROSS
NEW GARDA COMMISSIONER SIGNS-OFF ON PUBLIC CCTV SYSTEM FOR CARRICKMACROSS

By Veronica Corr News broke during Monday morning’s meeting of Carrickmacross/ Castleblayney Municipal District (MD), when Fianna Fáil Councillor PJ O’Hanlon excitedly announced that he had just received a message from Adrian O’Higgins, Special Adviser to the Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan, confirming that the CCTV scheme for Carrickmacross had been approved by the new Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly, who took up the role on September 1st, 2025. In welcoming the development and commending the new Garda Commissioner, Councillor Noel Keelan observed that there had been no engagement from his ...

THE MAINLINERS HONOURED WITH THE FREEDOM OF CASTLEBLAYNEY

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29 Sep 2025 Comments Off on THE MAINLINERS HONOURED WITH THE FREEDOM OF CASTLEBLAYNEY
THE MAINLINERS HONOURED WITH THE FREEDOM OF CASTLEBLAYNEY

By Veronica Corr On Sunday afternoon a sizeable crowd congregated around the Big Tom statue outside Castleblayney’s Market House, for a concert and civic reception for The Mainliners Showband, who were conferred with the Freedom of Castleblayney. The event was organised by Monaghan County Council. Country singers Margo O’Donnell, Damien Davis, Big Tom’s grand-nephew; Big Tom’s son Tom McBride Junior and Mick Mulhern entertained the crowd before the presentation began. Margo recalled the first time she heard ‘The Mighty Mainliners’ , as they were originally known, in 1966. All of ...

MONAGHAN TO BENEFIT FROM NEW €8.7 MILLION CROSS-BORDER ADHD AND AUTISM INITIATIVE

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29 Sep 2025 Comments Off on MONAGHAN TO BENEFIT FROM NEW €8.7 MILLION CROSS-BORDER ADHD AND AUTISM INITIATIVE
MONAGHAN TO BENEFIT FROM NEW €8.7 MILLION CROSS-BORDER ADHD AND AUTISM INITIATIVE

A new joint framework to address legacy issues arising from the Northern Ireland Troubles was unveiled by the British and Irish Governments on Friday. Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris said the new proposals were “a night and day improvement” on the controversial measures unilaterally introduced by the previous British Government under its controversial 2023 Legacy Act which effectively blocked inquests and civil legal proceedings arising from Troubles murders and atrocities. The Tánaiste and Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn jointly announced the details of the new framework. The ...

HEATHER HUMPHREYS LAUNCHES HER NATIONWIDE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN HER HOME COUNTY

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18 Sep 2025 Comments Off on HEATHER HUMPHREYS LAUNCHES HER NATIONWIDE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN HER HOME COUNTY

Veronica Corr Homegrown Irish Presidential Candidate for Fine Gael, Heather Humphreys kept it country for Saturday’s launch, her venue of choice being the iconic Monaghan Peace Campus – Tánaiste and Fine Gael Leader Simon Harris quipped that she could draw a bigger crowd than Philomena Begley as he took to the podium in the packed to capacity function room! Heather says that if elected she intends to, not only bring people to the Áras, but bring the Áras to them. She has certainly started as she means to continue, as the ...

HEATHER HUMPHREYS TO CONTEST IRISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR FINE GAEL

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5 Sep 2025 Comments Off on HEATHER HUMPHREYS TO CONTEST IRISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR FINE GAEL
HEATHER HUMPHREYS TO CONTEST IRISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR FINE GAEL

By Veronica Corr Former Minister Heather Humphreys is a household name, something that will be a distinct advantage to her when she appears on the ballot paper as Fine Gael’s candidate for the Irish Presidential Election, set to take place on Friday, October 24th in polling stations nationwide. Heather’s candidacy will be ratified by the Fine Gael Party at an event which will also serve as the official launch of her campaign. Heather took time out of her busy schedule this week to return a call to The Northern Standard, ...

SUNLIT TYDAVNET SHOW OFFERED A PANOPLY OF PLEASURES!

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24 Aug 2025 Comments Off on SUNLIT TYDAVNET SHOW OFFERED A PANOPLY OF PLEASURES!
SUNLIT TYDAVNET SHOW OFFERED A PANOPLY OF PLEASURES!

Graced by perfect summer weather, a prodigious attendance and the drama and delight generated by the exacting standards pertaining across its wide range of competitive classes, Saturday’s 72nd Tydavnet Show can be inarguably pronounced one of the most successful in the recent history of this celebration of North Co Monaghan rural vibrancy. The ascendant stature of the event in the Irish show calendar was reflected in its hosting this year of two All-Ireland finals: one in photography and the other in the equestrian sphere, the Three-Year-Old Filly Championship. The event ...

HEATHER PRIMED TO BE FINE GAEL CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

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24 Aug 2025 Comments Off on HEATHER PRIMED TO BE FINE GAEL CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT
HEATHER PRIMED TO BE FINE GAEL CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

A week ago, it seemed like never and now it seems only a matter of time – former Cavan/Monaghan TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys looks increasingly assured of receiving the nomination of the Fine Gael party to be their candidate in the election of the new President of Ireland in October of this year. After days of intense speculation engendered by the withdrawal last Thursday of the party’s Mairead McGuinness from the contest for health reasons, former Minister Humphreys confirmed her decision to seek the nomination as McGuinness’s replacement ...