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Important refurbishment and conservation work planned for St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town received funding of €100,000 this week. The Government’s Historic Structures Fund will assist in the works, which will entail work to the spire, pinnacles tower and south transept of the cathedral, with internal high-level plaster repairs. Two other places of worship in the local area have also been successful with applications to the fund. Shanco Church in Emyvale gets funding of €35,000 for conservation works to the roof, for the removal of vegetation and biocide cleaning, and ...

Friday’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in Monaghan Town had a worldwide audience thanks to live video streaming, with the crowds gathered before the reviewing stand in The Diamond responding enthusiastically when Master of Ceremonies Sean McCaffrey called for “a wave to the world” as the cavalcade of 70 participating elements began its wave through the main thoroughfares of the town. Declared a significant success at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District, the event embraced the theme of “Pedal Power for the Future”, an ecofriendly text translated colourfully and imaginatively ...

By Veronica Corr Former Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern received a rousing welcome from a packed function room on Monday night in The Shirley Arms Hotel, Carrickmacross. He was there at the invitation of Dr. Rory O’Hanlon and South Monaghan Fianna Fáil, but it was a public event and people from different traditions, with no political affiliations, were welcomed too. This was not a party political broadcast. Rather it was a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ushered in a new era of ...

A man in his 50s died in a two-vehicle road traffic collision which occurred on the N12 at Knockaconny outside Monaghan Town on Saturday morning last, March 11. The man who received fatal injuries was the sole occupant of one of the vehicles involved in the incident. His body was removed from the scene for post mortem examination. Two occupants of the second car were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Cavan General Hospital for treatment to injuries which were described as not life-threatening. Gardaí and ...

Muineachán Le Gaeilge have called for the establishment of a centre for the Irish Language Community in Monaghan. There are now four Gaelscoileanna in the county, as well as Coláiste Oiriall at secondary school level, making Monaghan the county with the highest percentage of children attending Irishmedium education on the island, outside of the Gaeltacht. With such schools and the continued growth of Irish language activities in the English medium schools, Monaghan is now considered one of Athbheochan na Gaeilge’s ongoing success stories. See inside for I dtreo Cultúrlainne – ...

There is a great chance of seeing a rail connection brought to the county and opening up the entire Border region including Monaghan, according to local Deputy Niamh Smyth. However, she warned that the all-island Strategic Rail Report needs to be “swiftly taken off the Minister for Transport’s desk” and immediately published. “The draft report on an expanded All-Ireland rail plan has been completed but the fact that there is no Minister for Transport in Northern Ireland, due to the suspended Assembly, has halted its publication,” the Fianna Fáil TD ...

Artist Vincent Devine (pictured above) created the triptych artwork of Vicky Phelan, which was exhibited in St. Joseph’s Pastoral Centre last weekend. The artist is a conceptual painter and described the work as a collaboration between himself and the late CervicalCheck campaigner. The setting is Doonbeg beach in County Clare, Vicky’s favourite place. The three canvas painting represented Vicky’s past, present and future. The portrait is packed with symbolism and Vicky thoroughly endorsed the artist and her portrait. A life-long friend of hers, David Brennan, bought the portrait at a ...

When in Rome… Threemilehouse has become something of a personal fitness and wellbeing Mecca in recent times thanks to judicious investment from Government Department funding streams to enhance the community offering made by Seán MacDiarmada GFC and the Kilmore and Drumsnatt Sports Activity Hub. So a tour of the village for local politicians who visited on Friday had to include a stop-off at the recently installed outdoor exercise equipment, which several of the guests felt obliged to try out. Our photograph by Rory Geary shows, from left: Cavan/Monaghan TD Matt ...

Funding of €16,222,270 has been allocated to Monaghan Co Council to invest in the maintenance and strengthening of regional and local roads in 2023, it was announced this week. The announcement was made the day following Monday’s monthly meeting of the local authority, during which some concern was voiced by the elected membership that the Council still had not yet been notified of the funding it was due to receive for national roads expenditure in the current year. The grants for non-national road expenditure detailed on Tuesday include €7,681,500 for ...

By Veronica Corr This week, Nuremore Hotel management were hopeful that all wages outstanding would be in their accounts as we went to press today, Thursday, February 15th. Hotel management and a spokesperson for International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS), both stated that the hotel was not earmarked for Direct Provision. On Monday, February 13th, the management of the Nuremore Hotel issued the following statement to The Northern Standard newspaper: “The hotel management deeply regret that staff wages are not paid on time, however, wages are not processed in-house, but a ...