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A recent public meeting in Monaghan Town’s Hillgrove Hotel saw the formal creation and launch of the group Love Monaghan Save Dublin Street, which has called on local public representatives to publicly state their position on the proposed demolition of four buildings on Dublin Street, Monaghan – including the birthplace of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the 19th century Young Ireland movement figure and tenant rights activist who went on to become premier of Victoria in Australia. The following press statement was issued by the group to the Northern Standard this ...

By Veronica Corr On Tuesday night there was a full house for the Tydavnet Parish Show launch in the village’s community centre. There was a sense of joy and relief that the dedicated committee and the supportive North Monaghan community would once again get to host this much loved annual agricultural event on Saturday, August 20th. Tydavnet Show Chairperson Paula Loughran, noted that while it may have been no show because of COVID public health restrictions over the past two years, the dedicated committee were working hard to think of ...

Monaghan Co Council passed a motion at its meeting on Monday last condemning a recent Sunday Independent article by the GAA pundit Joe Brolly in which he likened Clones on Ulster Final Day to Calcutta. outrage at the tone of references in the column to Clones, with some suggesting that the article could damage the town’s ambitions to remain the home of the provincial decider and other significant Ulster games once the redevelopment of Belfast’s Casement Park is complete. Motion proposer Councillor Richard Truell of Fine Gael demanded an apology ...

A call was made by Independent public representative Paudge Connolly at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for an examination of the legal validity of EirGrid’s right to access lands without their owners’ consent in order to progress construction of the northsouth interconnector project. Councillor Connolly proposed that the Council request its legal advisers to determine whether the legislation being cited by EirGrid and ESB Networks to access land in relation to the interconnector’s construction, which was enacted in 1927, permitted such access to take place to facilitate what was ...

Two pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinics will be held in Carrickmacross and Monaghan Town this week. The first clinic will be held in Carrickmacross Primary Care Centre on the Oriel Road today, Thursday June 16 from 2-5 pm. Those aged 12 years and over may avail of Dose 1, Dose 2 and booster vaccines while those who are 65 who are eligible for their second booster may also attend. Walk-ins are welcome. The second pop-up clinic will be held at Monaghan Primary Care Centre, St Davnet’s Campus, Monaghan tomorrow, Friday June ...

By Veronica Corr It was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait! Monaghan County Council, Inniskeen Enterprise Development Group and the community of Inniskeen seized the opportunity to celebrate the official opening of the Patrick Kavanagh Centre on Thursday morning last, June 2nd 2022, the way they had intended to before the pandemic struck. The renovation of the centre cost an estimated €1.2 million and the modern interior designed to appeal to international audiences was heaving with activity, as was the sacred space outside it, where Castleblayney ...

By Veronica Corr Castle Leslie in Glaslough was the stunning venue Fáilte Ireland chose to launch its five-year Monaghan Destination and Experience Development Plan (DEDP) on Thursday afternoon last, June 2nd, in conjunction with Monaghan County Council. This is a hugely ambitious and important strategy for the county and its tourism sector, a fact which was recognised by the presence of not one but two Government Cabinet members, who just happen to hail from the county. Minister Catherine Martin (Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media) from Carrickmacross and Minister ...

By Veronica Corr There was a full house for the 50th anniversary celebration of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s (CCÉ) Carrickmacross Branch, which took place in The Shirley Arms on Friday night last, where the present committee honoured the founding members of the local voluntary organisation. This joyful event was officiated by Minister Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, who was delighted to be back in her hometown with her husband Green Party Deputy Francis Noel Duffy, also a native of Carrickmacross, and their children Turlough, Tadhg ...

The HSE Vaccination Centre for Co Monaghan which had operated at the Glencarn Hotel in Castleblayney during the latter part of the intensive period of the Covid-19 pandemic closed on Monday last, May 23. The HSE said the closure was in accordance with its national operating model for the next phase of the delivery of the vaccination programme over the coming months, which involved a reduction in the number of vaccination centres across the country. “We are reducing the number of our large vaccination sites because at this point we ...

If you can’t get a taxi in Co Monaghan at night, the fault lies not with local transport operators but with the Taxi Regulator. So Monaghan Town businessman Patrick Gilsenan, proprietor of the long-established Call-A-Car taxi and minibus service, told the Northern Standard this week in an interview in which he appealed to local TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys to intervene in order to have regulatory controls on the sector eased. “I am calling on Minister Humphreys to make urgent representations to the National Transport Authority and the Taxi ...