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Members of Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee expressed serious concern on Monday over changes announced during the recent Budget in the school transport system, in particular proposals to give Bus Éireann full responsibility for the operation of the system, including responsibility for the administration of transport eligibility and grants. A document circulated to the members outlining the Budget’s implications for the education sector stated that, from the 2012/13 school year, Bus Éireann would have full responsibility for the operation of the school transport system including responsibility for processing all ...

By PATSY McARDLE COMMUNITIES in counties Monaghan, Cavan, Meath and Dublin, where all the victims had close family links, were shocked and devastated over the New Year by the horrific toll of last week’s three-car pile-up on the main Dublin-Derry N2 at Nurebeg near Carrickmacross, in which four lives were tragically lost. The crash claimed the lives of two men, aged 27 and 28, and a 39-years-old woman, and her unborn child. Those who died were Glen Curtis, 28, from Nobber, Co. ...

The site of the stalled mixed use development project in the centre of Monaghan Town is to be filled in and restored to use as a car-parking area, Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin confirmed to The Northern Standard yesterday following meetings which his party colleague, Monaghan Co and Town Councillor Sean Conlon, and himself have held with project developers P Clarke & Sons Limited. Deputy Ó Caoláin said he had received correspondence from the Clarke Group confirming that work will take place over the coming months ...

It’s not just the A-Team’s Hannibal Smith who loves it when a plan comes together.  Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee’s own A-Team of administrators and stakeholders for the new €20 million multi-purpose education complex going into development at Knockaconny were pretty pleased with themselves also when, on Friday, no less a personage than the Tánaiste and Minister for Education Mary Coughlan was on hand to officiate at the formal unveiling of the detailed plans for the new development during an impressively orchestrated presentation in Monaghan’s Hillgrove Hotel.  And Minister Coughlan’s personal pleasure ...

Following three road fatalities over the past 24 hours, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána have issued a joint appeal, yesterday Wednesday 8th December 2010, to road-users to be extremely careful on the roads. Despite a forecast for an improvement in the weather conditions nationwide, the roads continue to be treacherous in most parts of the country. Mr Noel Brett, Chief Executive, Road Safety Authority appealed to road-users to take extreme care when driving: “There is a danger that road-users and particularly motorists will be ...

A crowd estimated in excess of 7,000 thronged the central thoroughfares of Monaghan Town last Sunday evening to enjoy the formal switch-on of the county capital’s Christmas lighting – and send out a powerful message of confidence in the commercial health of the town to banish the building shadows of economic gloom. Santa Claus’s arrival delighted the hordes of expectant children who encircled the Church Square stage – but the venerable gentleman was arguably upstaged by the charismatic presence of X-Factor performer Jamie Archer, whose personal magnetism and powerhouse ...

A LEADING Co. Monaghan-based footwear firm  has signed-up top Irish international rugby star, Tommy Bowe,  in a unique deal for a huge  three-year marketing drive — the first of its kind in Ireland — which is expected to deliver a further  phenomenal trade boost for the company’s hugely popular Lloyd&Pryce brand of gents’ footwear. Buddha Brand Industry, is part of the Shoe City  Group based at Castleblayney — a wholesale  and retail footwear  group that supplies more than 400 leading stores throughout Ireland and the UK — owned by the  McArdle ...

Townpeople in Castleblayney were shocked on Thursday morning last by the news that a fire had swept through the 18th century  historic Hope Castle building on the scenic Lough Muckno Estate,  adjacent to the town,  in the early hours of the morning, causing extensive interior damage. The alarm was raised by gardai on an early morning mobile patrol,  and  when they sped to the scene they found that a  huge fire was raging inside the building. Fire units from all the neighbouring towns were called, including Dundalk, where the Co. Louth-based  fire ...

The HSE has this week stated that the long-promised CT scanning service has finally been established in Monaghan Hospital. Local hospital campaigners and political representatives had, for some considerable time now, been calling for the service to be put in place. The HSE said it was pleased to announce that the new CT scanning service has commenced in Monaghan from last Monday, 1st November and will operate two and a half days per week, on an “outpatient, non-urgent” basis. Patients requiring specific CT scans may now be referred directly by their GPs ...

Before the Chilean miners, there was Don Juan MacKenna! The Monaghan man who played an integral role in the independence struggle of the South American nation in the 19th century could justifiably lay claim to be Chile’s original hero – and his status as a liberator has now been immortalised in a set of stamps produced by An Post which are officially released today. Our photograph was taken in the gallery of Monaghan Co Museum, where a display of aretefacts relating to John MacKenna and the importance of his role in the ...