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The preferred route corridor of the N2 Clontibret to Northern Ireland Border Road Scheme was revealed to the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday. Steve Wallace from project consultants Grontmij unveiled the chosen 400-metre corridor – the green/red route from among the options previously outlined for the scheme – detailed maps of which will be available for public inspection at an information display to take place in Monaghan’s Four Seasons Hotel on Tuesday, July 10 next from noon until 10 pm. In the route description of the corridor presented to the ...

Reasons “mainly but not only financial” have been cited by Monaghan United soccer club for their decision, announced on Monday, to withdraw from participation in the Airtricity League. Club Chairman Jim McGlone said the club’s involvement in senior soccer was no longer sustainable. In a statement on the club’s website, Mr McGlone said United felt it had no other option available to it because of the inability to tie down an anchor sponsor for the current season, which had seen them return to the Premier Division of the ...

By PATSY McARDLE TOWN councillors, along with trade and community leaders, united during the past week in Castleblayney to voice an angry protest to Ireland’s largest grocery and food trading group, over a decision taken at the weekend to cease trading with prominent local businessman Mr. Jim McConnon, resulting in an overnight loss of some 55 jobs. The apparent sudden decision by the Musgrave Group’s SuperValu company to pull the plug on the Castleblayney business establishment on Monday last, caused ...

As Carrickmacross Festival Committee bids a fond farewell to another June Bank Holiday weekend, they wish to thank all who supported last weekend’s 2012 festival. The weather was favourable for the most part, but even Saturday night’s rain didn’t dampen the spirits of revelers. Organisers were delighted to see the community come out in their droves as well as people from far and wide. A weekend of fun-filled entertainment was had by all present, from the opening parade to the music from a host of tribute bands on both ...

The HSE announced on Monday that it is to carry out a feasibility study into the possibility of locating a Primary Care Centre at Monaghan General Hospital “either within or proximal to the existing hospital site.” The information was contained in a response to a notice of motion tabled at Monday’s meeting of the HSE Regional Health Forum in Kells by Monaghan Co Council representatives Robbie Gallagher, David Maxwell and Brian McKenna. The motion asked the HSE North East to investigate the Monaghan General Hospital location as a matter ...

By Cianna McNally As previously reported in the Northern Standard, the six-day stone sculpture symposium entitled ‘Mór Chuid Cloch’, began in Clones on Monday, 21st May and will continue until Saturday, 26th May. Working in the Butteryard at the Creighton Hotel six sculptors from around Ireland, including two from Co Monaghan, will produce a sculpture each from local sandstone. RTÉ’s Nationwide programme filmed the symposium and some of the historical features in the town on Monday. Emyvale sculptor Marc Kelly is the curator of the event which has been organised by Monaghan ...

The potency of the Monaghan General Hospital issue as a generator of pungent political debate was demonstrated once again in the meeting chamber of Monaghan Town Council on Tuesday night. A discussion on the proposals to close the kitchen in the facility which arose at the conclusion of the meeting evolved into a lengthy and at times quite heated discussion when the Fine Gael Cathaoirleach of the authority, David Maxwell, reacted to Sinn Féin suggestions that he and his colleagues consider resignation over the Monaghan Hospital issue with a ...

Monaghan town had plenty to celebrate at the weekend when the annual Féile Oriel attracted the crowds to its many and varied events, where an upbeat atmosphere pervaded despite the occasional moodiness of the weather. And our picture by Rory Geary shows someone with plenty to celebrate after winning the coveted 2012 Senior Fiddler of Oriel title: Nuala McBride from Trillick, Co Tyrone. A delighted Nuala is presented with the Charlie McGuinness Cup by Charlie himself and his son Darragh, while internationally renowned fiddler player Gerry O’Connor (left), looks ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Monaghan town will be in festive mode again this bank holiday weekend when recessions, referendums and all such mundane concerns will quite rightly be set aside as Féile Oriel’s full programme of trad music, song and entertainment gets underway. Over 22 traditional sessions featuring top musicians and singers from a wide area will be enjoyed by the punters in Andy’s, Master Deery’s, McKenna’s, McManus’s, Sherry’s, The Shamrock, The Squealing Pig, Terry’s and the Westenra, while a full array of local performers on the ‘Gig Rig’ at The ...

Mickey McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Monaghan town is poised to host yet another great festival of Irish music, song and the craic when Féile Oriel comes to town for the May Bank Holiday weekend. Like everyone else, the Féile organisers have been feeling the economic pressure — but they have not only kept the show on the road again this year, they’ve come up trumps with a sizzling hot programme of top name acts. A quick look through the menu should convince festival goers that there’s enough on offer here to ...