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Monaghan-based McCaughey Foods, one of Ireland’s leading producers of ready-to-eat meat products, has announced it will invest €150 million to build a world-class new production facility in Castleblayney. Subject to a successful planning application, the new factory will allow McCaughey Foods to significantly increase production in order to meet growing demands from customers in Ireland, the UK and EU. The new facility will also create up to 300 skilled new jobs, in addition to significant employment generated during the construction phase. “This is exciting news for our family, our company ...

The revival of the Féile Oriel traditional music festival which was once a staple feature of the cultural calendar in North Monaghan is set for April 28-30 next. The prestigious Fiddler of Oriel competitive centrepiece of the event has also been restored, and will have its grand finale on the final day of the occasion. Entries for the competition opened yesterday, Wednesday January 18 and will close on midnight on Tuesday February 28. The first Féile Oriel was held in Monaghan in 1969 and the event quickly became an essential ...

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision in County Monaghan on Saturday, 7th January, 2023. At approximately 9:20pm, Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to a collision involving a car and a stray horse on the northbound lane of the N2 at Creevy near Carrickmacross. The front seat passenger in the car, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. The two other occupants in the car, both adult males, were assessed at the scene by Emergency ...

Hospital is to operate a seven-day service from March of this year, the HSE has confirmed. There has been a broad political welcome for the news, which was conveyed to local elected representatives at a briefing held through the HSE’s Regional Health Forum for Dublin and the North East on Friday last. But calls were made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for services at the hospital to be further extended in light of the current overcrowding situation at Cavan General Hospital and other larger hospitals throughout the country. ...

Fianna Fáil local public representative Seamus Coyle told the Northern Standard yesterday that he had received confirmation from Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD that approval to proceed to tender for the construction of a new Fire Station in Ballybay had been secured. the Monaghan Co Council and Ballybay- Clones Municipal District member said he was delighted that the project had now advanced to this important stage after what he described as “a long campaign”. “I obtained confirmation from Minister o’Brien that his Department and the ...

Minister for Rural and Community Development and Cavan/Monaghan TD Heather Humphreys announced over €1.4 million in funding for projects in Co Monaghan under her Department’s Town and Village Renewal Scheme yesterday, Wednesday. Minister humphreys said this was a record level of investment that would “breathe new life into communities in the county with a huge focus on community spaces, walking tracks and outdoor amenities”. Ballinode received the maximum level of investment of €500,000. this will see the construction of a new purpose- built community centre in the centre of the ...

Mickey Treanor and his dog Ollie, with some of Francie Coogan’s display of Christmas lights,which is being illuminated this year in aid of the Monaghan Branch of the Alzheimer Societyof Ireland. A donation box and idonate QR code, are available at the display, which is annuallyheld at Michelle Coogan’s home in Belgian Sq, Monaghan. Photo Rory Geary

Monaghan Co Council was “winter ready” and prepared for the difficult road conditions anticipated over the coming days as a severe cold snap settled throughout the country, Acting Director of Transportation Services Gareth McMahon told Monday’s meeting of the local authority. Met Éireann said yesterday, Wednesday that the weather in Co Monaghan was due to turn very cold and the spell would continue into early next week as an Arctic airmass set in. Sharp to severe frosts, and the formation of ice and black ice on roads and footpaths, was ...

Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys has welcomed the apology issued by her former party leader Alan Dukes for commenting during a television documentary that Border people were more easily driven to violence. Mr Dukes attracted extreme criticism for the remarks, made during a contribution to the three-part documentary on businessman Seán Quinn screened by RTÉ last week. In one of the Quinn Country episodes, Mr Dukes, speaking in the context of incidents of violence and intimidation which followed upon the takeover of some of Seán ...

The town and rural surrounds of Castleblayney were described as being in a state of deep shock this week following the murder of a man on the outskirts of the town on Thursday morning December 1 last and the subsequent death in a road traffic accident of another male, incidents which the Gardaí believe are related. The body of Christopher Mooney (60), from Knockreagh Lower, Broomfield was found in his home at around 6.30 am on Friday by a family member who observed another man leaving the scene. Around 7 ...