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Disparaging remarks about Monaghan people’s attitudes to the gay community and the issue of abortion, made off the record by a Dublin Labour TD but secretly taped and published in a national newspaper at the weekend, have generated an angry reaction throughout the county this week. A large number of people contacted Northern Sound radio on Monday to vent their displeasure after the Sunday Independent published edited transcripts of a conversation between Dublin North-Central Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and a constituent which was recorded without the Deputy’s knowledge. ...

Twenty-three allegations of the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by Catholic priests serving in the Diocese of Clogher were made to police authorities between January 1975 and November of last year, a report published yesterday has revealed. A review of the child safeguarding practice in the diocese conducted by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI), launched at a press conference in St Macartan’s College in Monaghan Town, is predominantly positive in its assessment of the current system of safeguards the diocese operates. ...

The closure of the once vibrant company Rossmore Furniture by McNally & Finlay in the county capital prompted calls at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council for the Government to introduce support measures to secure and create jobs in the area. Cathaoirleach Seamus Treanor expressed regret at the closure of a company which he said had been an employment provider in the town for 51 years. The Cathaoirleach said the business had cited as one of the reasons for their decision the high cost of insurance and ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie THE intensity of local opposition to new plans to build a “biomass” incinerator in the Bragan/Carrickroe area was strongly signalled at an emotionally charged public meeting in a packed community hall in Carrickroe on Monday night. The sense of anger at the proposal to build what was described as a 40 megawatt plant, said to be costing in the region of €115 million, at the site of the former Marley Compost plant on the R186 between Tydavnet and Clogher was amplified by frustration at the fact that ...

The wheel of fortune that exercises a hypnotic fascination for viewers of the National Lottery’s WINNING STREAK game show on RTE 1 brought delight on the double to The Northern Standard’s circulation area over the Easter weekend. Margaret Dowd from Cootehill, Co Cavan scooped €58,600, including a holiday to Paris, when she became the biggest winner of the five contestants in the main part of Saturday night’s show. And there was a highly profitable spin for Geraldine Lennon from Toniscoffey, Co Monaghan as this week’s Winning Streak Dream ...

Recent calls by Monaghan Town Council for beds at Monaghan General Hospital to be used to provide respite care on a temporary basis while major refurbishment takes place at St Mary’s Hospital in Castleblayney were regarded as unfeasible by representatives of the Health Service Executive who met with the Council membership on Tuesday night. HSE General Manager Bridget Clarke said there was little spare ward capacity at the hospital, and there was nowhere at the hospital that would fulfil the written criteria laid down for the provision of respite ...

Monaghan Town’s St Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday last was an occasion that combined both dignified spectacle and sheer uninhibited fun. As the crowds lined along the main thoroughfares of the county capital enjoyed the inventiveness and spectacle of the floats, and children availed to the full of the many special entertainment attractions, the formal beat for the event was set by the drill discipline exhibited by the colour party drawn from D Company 27th Battalion. Our picture by Rory Geary shows 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Fennell, Corporal Stephen ...

A strong conviction was articulated at Monday’s meeting of Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee that the new Monaghan Institute development now active on the Knockaconny campus could play a pivotal role in the revitalisation of the local economy by meeting the training needs of existing and new industry and enterprise. The argument – which crystallised in a proposal to invite leading officials of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to discuss how the facility could assist economic development in the area – was given momentum by a tour of the ...

michael@northern-standard.ie WARM tributes were paid to Garda Inspector Pat McMorrow at Monaghan District Court on Monday, where it was confirmed that the Roscommon native, who joined the gardai in 1972 and has been an inspector for the past 20 years, is retiring from the force after a distinguished career in which he spent most of his time serving in Monaghan Town. Leading the accolades to the popular and highly respected garda officer was Judge Sean MacBride, who noted at the outset of Monday’s sitting of the court that this would ...

“As far as I can see, this is taking power away from the people, not bringing it back to them and our children will not thank us if we let it happen” was the comment that seemed to capture the mood of a public meeting held in Tullycorbett Community Centre on Feb 21st last. On October 16th, 2012, the Government published proposals to align the local government and local development sectors. LOCAL development companies (LDCs), such as Monaghan Integrated Development (MID), which have successfully administered community development programmes like the ...