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The Monaghan 10 & 5 mile road race will be taking place this Sunday, 14th August at 12.30. This is the 6th year of this prestigious event and following last year’s success it is fast becoming part of the athletics calendar locally and nationally. A large number of runners and athletic clubs from both sides of the border participated in the event last year and the winning male athlete, Freddy Kieron Stuk, an international athlete from Kenya, will be returning this year hoping to retain his crown. The race begins and ...

By PATSY McARDLE GARDAI the Cavan/Monaghan Division are on the alert for a “garden snatch’ gang which has stolen lawn-mowers and other gardening equipment from several premises in the region. Detectives believe the thieves are using a van to drive along country roads in an effort to target unattended gardening tools which are visible outside houses. Some of the gardening tools were taken in broad daylight from gardens close to dwellings and busy roads. It is believed a Traveller gang may be involved and that the stolen equipment may ...

A unique and celebratory occasion took place in the St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre in Monaghan Town on Tuesday last when local businessman Raju Hasan and his bride Fateha Khatun celebrated their wedding in accordance with the customs and traditions of their Muslim culture.   Originally from Sylhet, Bangladesh, Mr Hasan is a well-known member of the local community, working in one of the town’s most popular restaurant establishments, the Eastern Balti House at 34 Market Street. A cross-section of guests from the local community mingled with Raju and Fateha’s immediate and ...

The 61st Castleblayney Show enjoyed another record-setting winning hand when it was staged on Monday last. Our picture by Rory Geary shows country music royalty in the personages of Big Tom McBride and Margo mingling with Show Queen Emma Cooney, Monaghan Rose of Tralee Pamela Allen, Show Chairman David Montgomery and Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District Cathaoirleach Aidan Campbell. Big Tom officially opened the proceedings, which unfolded in weather conditions that held favourable and set the scene for a captivating experience for the large crowds that milled around the manifold attractions of the occasion. One ...

Olivia Duffy, from Ballybay, Co Monaghan has been selected as one of five national finalists in a recent Bord Bia competition, run in association with Today FM. As part of a new ‘Lamb – Tasty, Easy, Fun’ campaign, Olivia submitted her signature lamb dish for the judges’ consideration and was delighted to be shortlisted as one of the most tempting and imaginative entries. Olivia was asked to prepare her ‘Trimmed Lamb chops marinated in a sweet mustard, Served with creamy mashed potato and Ratatouille’ live on air as part of ...

A judge at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has applied the Probation Act to a South Monaghan man who was charged with reckless discharge of a shotgun after he shot and injured a burglar at his elderly father’s farm. 51 year old Richard Lowndes of Drummond, Inniskeen, grabbed his father’s legally held shotgun and pursued the burglar and shot him as he tried to make his getaway by driving across a field.
On April 12, 2012 Matthew Fahey went to the 79-year-old farmer’s door in Swords, Co Dublin and ...

The ducks never saw him coming. The sight of four-year-old Daithí Sherry running across the sward of Monaghan Town’s Peter’s Lake park on Tuesday morning to sate his curiosity about the resident waterfowl would have been a pleasant but unremarkable sight for any casual observer who did not know the little boy’s remarkable story. For mother Caroline, brothers Caolúm and Ryan and sister Amy, looking on from the near distance, it was another in the daily, hourly affirmations of the hopes and dreams they and father Paul have been harbouring for a ...

P J O’Hanlon, Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, and Peadar Morgan of the Clontibret Wildlife Centre are pictured with a group of Canadian visitors from Peterborough, Ontario who visited the Clontibret facility yesterday, Wednesday as part of their current tour of Ireland. The group, who were greeted on arrival by two pipers from the local O’Neill Pipe Band, expressed delight at the attractions of the wildlife centre and spoke in glowing terms of their time in Co Monaghan, where they based themselves at the Four Seasons Hotel. The Co Council Cathaoirleach welcomed ...

PETER HUGHES An online petition calling on Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Seamus Treanor to resign following controversial comments he made about Muslims has attracted almost 600 signatures. Councillor Treanor has come in for some strong criticism, much of it circulating on social media forums, after he declared at last week’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District that 98% of Muslims who came to Ireland did not want to work. Speaking during a vote of sympathy to the French people on the Nice terrorist attack which was claimed by the Islamist extremist ...

• Our picture by Rory Geary shows Fr Kevin Malcolmson (left) and Fr Stephen Duffy following their investiture during the Ordination Mass held in St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town on Sunday last. Priests from throughout the Diocese of Clogher, and visiting priests from the Irish College in Rome and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth concelebrated the Mass with ordaining prelate Most Reverend Liam S MacDaid, bishop of the diocese. Sunday was the first occasion since 1994 that more than one priest has been ordained at a ceremony in the diocese. Clogher ...