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By PATSY McARDLE A controversial ‘high support’ youth detention centre run by the Health and Safety Executive at Castleblayney, which was deemed a “health risk” by the Health Information and Quality Authority for some young offenders placed in care at the premises, is to be closed next month as a centre for the accommodation of inmates, and it is being suggested it could be developed as an all-important primary health care centre for the area. The Rath na nOg Centre at Bree ...

The question on the lips of all followers of the Monaghan ladies football team was implicitly expressed in the good wishes extended by the student body of St Tiarnach’s Primary School in Clones this week to teacher Anita Newell, one of the members of the Monaghan side who will be attempting to overcome the might of Cork in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park on Sunday. Our picture by Rory Geary shows some of Anita’s Second Class pupils – Tiernan Smith, Megan McAloon, Orla McKiernan, Ruby Anderson and Pauric ...

WELL-KNOWN Clones-based solicitor Paul Madden has been prohibited from practising and his accounts have been frozen pending an investigation into substantial monies that have been taken from his firm’s client accounts. The High Court was told last week by counsel for the Law Society that Mr Madden had admitted taking almost €1.4 million from clients’ accounts, stating that it was used to pay items including tax bills and office expenses. The court was also told that Mr Madden, of Paul Madden & Co Solicitors, Fitzpatrick Square, Clones, had ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie MONAGHAN’S 18th Annual Harvest Time Blues festival defied the country’s ongoing economic woes by building on last year’s success and recording increases in overall attendances by somewhere between three and seven per cent. Monaghan Arts Officer and Festival Committee member Somhairle Mac Conghail told the Northern Standard that the overall feel-good factor at the weekend’s events throughout the town was added to by the fact that there were no public order incidents despite the large numbers of fans that supported the various events. Overall, the atmosphere was ...

By Cianna McNally ‘Poignant’ and ‘powerful’ are just two words to describe the GroundZero360 exhibition that was officially opened by Mayor of Co Monaghan Sean Conlon in the Market House, Monaghan last Thursday evening, 29th August. Monaghan is the last stop in Ireland for the unique exhibition which will remain in the Market House until 19th October. Those present at the launch included members of the Gardaí, Fire Service and Civil Defence and relations of two Irish victims of 9/11; carpenter Sean Canavan from Co Tyrone and firefighter Kevin O’Rourke whose mother Hannah (née ...

WHAT was described yesterday as the “disgraceful discharge” of a 62-years-old Co. Monaghan man from Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, who sustained a broken arm from falling down stairs, and events surrounding his particular case, has led to a fresh storm involving the HSE over the whole scenario of health care for the people of Co. Monaghan. It emerged yesterday that the 62-years-old, recovering from the broken arm at the Navan hospital, and dressed only in tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt, was put in ...

Public representative Seamus Treanor has leapt to the defence of the image of the Mullaghmatt housing estate in Monaghan Town after disparaging references were made to the area in a national newspaper’s coverage of the Michaella McCollum Connolly case. Monaghan-born Michaella (20), of Dungannon, Co Tyrone, and her Glaswegian friend 19-year-old Melissa Reid have been in the centre of the international media spotlight after their arrest in Peru for allegedly attempting to smuggle €1.7 million worth of cocaine out of the country. The drugs were found in ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THE livestock mart in Cootehill will open again from early next month, for the first time in over 12 years, the Northern Standard learned this week. In a development which will be welcomed by the farming community and local traders alike, it was confirmed that the premises on Station Road will be trading every Wednesday from 4th September onwards. Jimmy O’Reilly of Mullagh, Co Cavan, who along with Mr Patrick McEnaney of Corduff has leased the site for what is understood to be a number of ...

Thousands of people from across Ireland and abroad attended the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Monaghan Town last weekend. Picture by Rory Geary shows a section of the huge crowd assembled in the town’s Church Square on Sunday evening. Full report and pictures in The Northern Standard.

St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan on Sunday 28th July for the celebration of the Ordination to the priesthood of Rev. Raymond Donnelly by the Bishop of Clogher, Most Rev Liam MacDaid.  This was an event of great significance and joy for people throughout the Diocese of Clogher, being the first priestly ordination in 11 years for the diocese, which includes County Monaghan, most of Fermanagh, and parts of Tyrone and Donegal. The diocese has seen a resurgence in vocations to the priesthood in recent years and there are currently six men undertaking ...