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By PATSY McARDLE A young-at-heart Castleblayney lady set a unique national record as the eldest voter in the country at last Friday’s General Election! Mrs Molly Loughman, who celebrated her 103rd birthday on Tuesday week last, was in a jovial mood as she joked with the presiding officer and staff, as well as with photographers and well-wishers, after voting in a booth in her home town . The widowed mother-of–four, whose husband, James, died in 1955,   was assisted to the booth in her wheelchair by staff at St. Mary’s Hospital, Castleblayney, where she ...

Lakeland Dairies has announced the appointment of Mr. Colin Kelso, a dairy farmer from Dungannon, Co Tyrone as Vice-Chairman of the co-operative. Mr Kelso joined the Board of Lakeland Dairies in 2013. He succeeds Gerry Melia who has served with distinction as Vice-Chairman since 2012 and who continues as a Board member. Lakeland Dairies Chairman Alo Duffy welcomed Mr Kelso and also paid tribute to the outgoing Mr Melia for his excellent service. Lakeland Dairies is one of Ireland’s leading dairy processing co-operatives. The farmer-owned concern operates across fifteen counties on a cross-Border ...

A large contingent of sports fans from Clones and other parts of Co Monaghan descended upon the Manchester Arena on Saturday night to watch enthralled as Barry McGuigan boxing protégé Carl Frampton achieved his unification ambition after a gruelling duel with Scott Quigg. As ‘The Jackal’ bathed in the adulation of an estimated ten thousand revellers from the northern counties of Ireland who had generated an extraordinary atmosphere in the arena, his Monaghan devotees took the opportunity to mingle with the great and the good at the after-party events, with ...

Cavan and Monaghan ETB’s Community Education and Adult Literacy Graduation took place in the Garage Theatre in Monaghan’s Education Campus on Monday the 22nd February.  Deirdre Byrne, Community Education Facilitator with CMETB, welcomed everyone and congratulated some 120 students who were in attendance to receive Levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 Certificates in subject areas such as Healthcare, Gardening, ESOL, Bookkeeping, Construction, Childcare, Cookery and Computers. Many more students had also achieved awards but were unfortunately unable to attend on the night.  Deirdre acknowledged the wonderful work done by tutors ...

Members of the organising committee behind the McCabe twins fundraiser this week presented a cheque for €7,500 to The Holy Family School in Cootehill. As previously reported in The Northern Standard, five-year old Francis and Maeve McCabe, who are son and daughter of Kate and Kevin McCabe from Avelreagh, Clontibret, suffer a host of medical problems. They attend The Holy Family School and the money presented to the school was part of the proceeds from a very successful fundraising dance, which took place in The Glencarn Hotel, Castleblayney, at the beginning ...

Michael Fisher Oral Hearing to Start in Carrickmacross on March 7tH The long-awaited decision by An Bord Pleanála to hold an oral hearing into EirGrid’s plans for a second North/South electricity interconnector means the stage is now being set for the second such inquiry in over five years. A previous hearing in 2010 ended abruptly when a discrepancy was exposed in the planning documentation regarding the height of pylons and EirGrid withdrew the application. The Planning Board has informed interested parties that an inspector will begin to hear submissions at the Nuremore ...

Republic soccer boss impressed with Monaghan mineral water company’s expansion plans Republic of Ireland soccer boss Martin O’Neill enjoyed some of the brightest glory days of his managerial career at the helm of Glasgow Celtic – yesterday in Co Monaghan he was sampling the pure stuff courtesy of our own Celtic warriors! O’Neill, his star in the ascendant after guiding his Boys in Green to this summer’s European Championship finals in France, was the special guest at the announcement of Celtic Pure’s €5 million plans to extend their operation at Corcreagh through ...

The Four Season Hotel was the venue for the County Monaghan Athletics Board awards night, which was held on Friday 12th February. Chairperson of the board Alan Clarke welcomed everyone to the event to celebrate the achievements of the county’s best athletes who have competed at national and international level over the last 12 months. The awards night was also held to honour those that competed with success in the county’s distance league which was being run for the second time in 2015. However Alan was quick to point out ...

Calls were made at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District for a forceful Garda clampdown on persistent outbreaks of anti-social behaviour that, councillors claimed, had become a regular weekend occurrence in the centre of Monaghan Town, particularly the Dublin Street area, in recent weeks. Representations from the business community in Dublin Street for local authority action to be taken, including the night-time closure of a number of public walkways connecting the thoroughfare with the town centre car-parks, were brought to the meeting’s attention by Independent representative Seamus Treanor, who claimed ...

A suspicious device found in the rural hinterland of Ballybay on Thursday last was rendered safe by members of the Army Bomb Disposal Team. The device, which was described as viable, was discovered by a member of the public in the Drumlane area. Gardaí were called to the scene and the Army Bomb Disposal Team was alerted. The device was rendered safe after 40 minutes without the necessity for a controlled explosion. As a precaution a number of residences in the area were temporarily evacuated. Garda investigations into the incident are continuing, and ...