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By KEVIN CARNEY Monaghan’s rise up the pecking order of ladies football over the last 12 months was bookended on Saturday night last when four senior county players picked up 2011 All-Star awards. The hangdog looks of the Monaghan players on view in the immediate aftermath of last month’s All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Cork were relegated to history as Grainne McNally, Sharon Courtney, Therese McNally and Ciara McAnespie all received All-Star awards at the City West Hotel, Dublin. Joined by a gathering of the who’s who of ladies football, the ...

Exultation and ecstasy abounded at Terryland Park on Saturday night as Monaghan United supporters celebrated their side’s triumphant return to Irish senior soccer’s pinnacle (Photo (c) Rory Geary/The Northern Standard). A brace of goals from Declan Fabio O’Brien (pictured receiving the plaudits of the faithful) and another from Ryan Brennan sealed a 3-1 victory over Galway United in the second leg of their Airtricity League promotion-relegation playoff, sending the Mons back to the Premier Division after an exile of more than a decade on a compelling 5-1 aggregate score. ...

Monaghan United’s dream of promotion to the Airtricity League First Division can be realised at Terryland Park tomorrow, Friday night when they enter the second leg of their promotion/relegation play-off with Galway United with a two-goal advantage. Michael Isichei and Sean Brennan struck the goals at Gortakeegan on Tuesday evening that put the Mons in the driving seat in the tie, and they will be reasonably confident – but not complacent – about completing the job over the deciding ninety minutes of the encounter, which kicks off at 7.45 ...

Homeowners and business people are still counting the cost of the damage caused by Monday’s sustained rainfall which brought severe flooding to Monaghan town and other parts of the county.  Henry Skeath, who operates an official rainfall station at Knockroe, Monaghan on behalf of the Met Office in Dublin told The Northern Standard that Monday was the wettest day since he began keeping records in September 1979.  The monthly average rainfall for October is 103mms. On Saturday there was a rainfall of 17.3 mms, on Sunday 21.2mms while Monday saw a ...

By PATSY McARDLE A 29-years-old Carrickmacross man who was the driver of a car which claimed three lives, and the life of an unborn infant, in a horrific crash in South Monaghan, was ordered to spend three years in prison by a judge at a sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court in Carrickmacross on Tuesday last. Kevin McArdle of Longfield, Carrickmacross, appeared in custody and pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in the wake of a three-vehicle ...

“While I intend to explore all possible options that may assist in the advancement of this project, it must also be recognised that the Government is engaged at present in a Comprehensive Review of Expenditure, under which all spending is being examined rigorously,” Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan has told Monaghan Co Council in a response to their representations on funding for the redevelopment of the Ulster Canal. In a letter circulated at the October meeting of the Council, the Minister, after expressing congratulations on ...

More strong criticism of Fine Gael’s failure to deliver on promises in relation to Monaghan General Hospital was heard at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council when members debated at length Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil urgent business motions calling on Health Minister James Reilly to reverse the HSE decision to cut the hours of operation of the hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit from November 1. But the meeting also heard a powerful plea for political unity on the hospital issue from FG’s Ciara McPhillips, who told her colleagues: “No ...

Monaghan ladies senior football boss Greg McGonigle has expressed the hope that none of this year’s Ulster title-winning squad will contemplate hanging up their boots in the wake of last Sunday’s all-Ireland final disappointment.by KEVIN CARNEY McGonigle believes the current squad will show the character and ambition to rebound from their 0-11 to 2-7 defeat to Cork and be a different proposition the next time they get to within 60 minutes of claiming the holy grail. The Derry native and his assistants Peter Clarke and John Downey hope to join with members ...

By Cianna McNally CLONES has been urged to stay positive about the future of the Ulster Canal project. Comments in relation to the future funding of the project made by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan in Clones earlier in the year have caused concern that its progression is in doubt. A meeting to discuss the issue was organised on Friday last, 16th September. Local TDs, Clones town councillors, the Mayor of Co Monaghan and representatives from Clones Regeneration Partnership were in attendance.   Mayor of ...

The members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday looked forward in anticipation to this Saturday’s National Famine Commemoration events in Clones. Pat Treanor complimented all those involved in the preparations for the event, predicting “it will put Clones and Co Monaghan on the map for years to come.” Co Mayor Seamus Coyle praised the range of events that had been taking place in Clones and other locations in the lead-up to Saturday’s commemoration. Mayor Coyle said these events had been a great education to him regarding a ...