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Work is set to start this week on the Threemilehouse flood alleviation scheme after members of Ballybay-Clones Muncipal District signed the contract at a meeting on Monday. The contract, which is worth €112,000, has been awarded to Rockcorry based contractor Samuel Wilkin. Speaking during the meeting, Fine Gael councillor Hugh McElvaney stated that the village had experienced flooding last Thursday due to heavy rainfall and the issue needed to be dealt with urgently. “Residents in Threemilehouse are pulling the hair out of their heads following heavy rain last week. Promises are promises and action is ...

By Cianna McNally and Veronica Corr The flooding experienced throughout the county, as a result of last Thursday’s torrential rainfall was the subject of two motions of urgent business at Monday’s meetings of the Ballybay/Clones and Monaghan Municipal Districts. A motion calling on Monaghan Co Council to immediately seek special funding to allow for priority works to be carried out on the R190 Ballybay to Cootehill (Dundalk – Cavan) road to alleviate what Councillor Seamus Coyle described as regular flooding resulting in road  closures at Corrybrennan, Cumry, Keenoughbane and Lisnalong, received the full support of councillors at Monday’s meeting ...

By Veronica Corr The community of Tydavnet scooped the top prize at the 12th annual Irish Public Bodies (IPB) Co-operation Ireland Pride of Place Awards which were announced in Treacy’s West County Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare on Saturday last. Clones and Corduff Raferagh also won awards. There was an attendance of 800—1,000 people from across the 32 counties present. RTÉ’s Marty Morrissey acted as master of ceremonies. Saturday night’s gala ceremony was video-linked to all of the communities involved, so that everyone could enjoy the fruits of their labour. Tydavnet took poll position ...

BY KEVIN CARNEY The Monaghan Harps ladies football fraternity will know today (Thursday) whether they are still part of the race to claim the 2014 All-Ireland club IFC title. At the time of going to print, the Central Council of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association was deliberating on a controversy which has engaged gaels in counties Monaghan and Donegal over the past couple of weeks. Delegates from all around the country were due to gather at Croke last night (Wednesday) to rule on an appeal lodged by Donegal champions Four Masters against ...

By PATSY McARDLE A number of motorists—in conjunction with hackney and taxi company bosses in the wider Monaghan-Louth-Cavan region-have begun a DIY crackdown on fuel outlets in the Border counties which are suspected of engaging in ‘petrol stretching’ to cream-off a higher profit at the pumps!. It was revealed at the weekend that some drivers have begun taking samples of petrol, which was purchased at certain “suspect” outlets in towns in Co. Monaghan, and are now awaiting the results of a chemical analysis which was carried out, before further action is ...

  By PATSY McARDLE A revolutionary invention by a Sixth Year student at Our Lady’s Secondary School in Castleblayney—which was initially featured some months ago in THE NORTHERN STANDARD as well as in the national media—has now won major international acclaim for Christopher Carragher, son of Martin and Roisin Carragher of Moneyvolan, Castleblayney. An overjoyed and excited Christopher won the overall prize at the National Scifest Final, held in Marino, Dublin, last weekend. His project entitled ‘Memory Buddy’, which was featured on the RTE Six-One News, has secured for Christopher an all-expenses trip ...

Five Monaghan teams are in Ulster Club Football Championship action this weekend, having been shown the way by Castleblayney’s hurlers last Sunday. Castleblayney won their second Ulster Club Junior Hurling Championship title with a dominant second-half performance against Na Magha in Dungannon. Blayney, who had goals by Niall Garland and Fergal Rafter in the first half, changed ends on level terms, but were soon in the driving seat after the Derry City club had Breandán Quigley sent off. With Hugh Byrne and Rafter taking their personal tallies to 0-7 and 1-3 ...

The significant escalation of protest over the current extremely difficult situation pertaining in the beef sector marked by this week’s 24-hour demonstrations by the Irish Farmers’ Association at meat factories in Co Monaghan and throughout the State has certainly heightened awareness of the issue at hand. While the sight of protesting farmers has not been an uncommon one across the country over the years, the action taken this week by the IFA is of a deeper and more serious order than the norm, reflective of the very testing circumstances many of ...

SOUTH Monaghan based Sinn Fein MEP for the Midlands-North West, Matt Carthy, voiced strong support for the IFA protest campaign to highlight the poor prices farmers were getting for beef, when he commended the group assembled outside the ABP meat processing plant in Clones, earlier this week. He said the level of frustration and anger of local beef farmers was palpable and the fact that this it was the first protest of this type in 15 years reflected the growing “sense of desperation felt by many farmers as they continue to ...

A new publication on the 1974 Monaghan bombing was hailed at its formal launch in the Market House in Monaghan Town on Wednesday evening last by Margaret Urwin of the Justice for the Forgotten organisation as an important exercise in both commemoration and reconciliation. The Monaghan Bombing Community Links Project was co-ordinated by local man Brian Clerkin and backed by local Peace III Partnership funding and support. The booklet produced, containing extensive photographic and eyewitness testimony relating to the May 17 1974 bomb in the town, was compiled with considerable youth ...