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A secondary school student fom Inniskeen, Sarah Leddy, has won first prize in the Irish League of Credit Unions annual art competition in the 11-13 year-olds category. She received a cheque for €500 in a ceremony at the Croke Park conference centre last Sunday. Sarah is a past pupil of St Daigh’s National School, Inniskeen, and currently attends St Vincent’s Seconday School in Dundalk. She said she was delighted with winning what she later revealed was the first competition she had ever entered. Her winning picture depicted the theme ‘ARTFEST’ and was ...

Co Monaghan’s new sporting ambassador, rising rallying star Daniel McKenna, will be Grand Marshal of this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in Monaghan Town. Mr McKenna, who was recently voted €25,000 in sponsorship by Monaghan Co Council to promote the county in the international rallying events in which he will participate this year, and who has agreed to fulfil an ambassadorial and promotional role as part of the local authority’s initiative to establish a distinctive county “brand”, was confirmed in his parade role at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. Cathaoirleach ...

The new €3.5 million Carrickmacross Water Supply and Treatment Plant at Nafferty, which was officially opened this morning by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly T.D.

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie LAST FRIDAY marked another red-letter day for Monaghan’s cutting edge forklift manufacturer Combilift, when Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD visited its headquarters to announce plans for the creation of 200 new jobs at the company and the development of a new €40 million plant adjacent to the Monaghan bypass. The jobs are expected to be created over the next five years, with a high percentage of the posts being for skilled personnel such as technicians and design engineers, as ...

Monaghan is back in its rightful place of leadership with the opening of a new Education Campus and the jobs announcement by Combilift, according to An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. Mr Kenny was speaking during the official opening of the €45 million Education Campus on the site of the former military barracks on the Armagh Road. It opened in 2013 when Gaelscoil Ultain, Colaiste Oiriall and Monaghan Institute moved in to brand new premises, sharing sports facilities and access to the new Garage Theatre. Mr Kenny told the 300 guests this ...

Preliminary consideration of the planning of events in Co Monaghan to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising formed a subject of discussion at the February meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Debate was engendered by correspondence to the local authority from Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys in her capacity as Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Deputy Humphreys stated: “I am writing to you in relation to Ireland 2016, a major national initiative to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, when we will reflect on our past, ...

By Patsy McArdle THE popular Shercock-based Celtic Pure water has been short-listed as a finalist in the forthcoming Small Firms Association awards. The Corcreagh-based bottlers of the finest natural spring water, have been named as a finalist for the awards in the manufacturing category, sponsored by competitive energy provider Energia. The announcement was made at the SFA Awards Showcase in Dublin Castle last week. The awards will be presented by Awards Patron, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, TD, to all category winners and the Overall Winner at a Gala Event in March 2015. Daniel Wolverson ...

Hundreds of local Anti-Water Charges protests took place across the country on Saturday the 31st of January and part of the National Day of Action against the Water Charges organised by Right2Water. In Co. Monaghan three protests were held. The first took place in Carrickmacross, the second was held in Clones and the third was held in Monaghan Town. Co. Monaghan Right2Water organiser Mícheál Hughes, who chaired two of the rallies stated, “These charges can be defeated. If we stand together we can and we will defeat these charges. The people of Ireland ...

Pat Treanor from Doogary in Tydavnet is one of the oldest people in County Monaghan. He has lived through two World Wars, the troubles in the North and many other important world events. He celebrated his 103rd birthday on Saturday with his family, in the house where he has lived since his birth on January 31st 1912. Asked about his secret for a long life, Pat revealed it was having a wee bit of everything and not too much of anything. His view on what you need for living a long ...

Papal Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Charles Brown (right) joined Carrickmacross Parish Priest Fr Larry Duffy at St Joseph’s Church last night for a Mass of Healing and Hope to create an awareness that there is life after addiction.  Pic. Pat Byrne