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This €17.6 million project is supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) which awarded €9.5 million of funding by European Union (ERDF) with Dept. of Rural & Community Development and Northern Ireland Executive providing match funding to Monaghan County Council to deliver the project. The Peace Campus will provide community space, a youth facility, a new town library and a cultural heritage area. Providing a safe, neutral space for everyone to use and enjoy. Work was halted on this project from ...

Youth wings of political groupings in Co Monaghan have sounded an alert this week over increasing incidents of drink “spiking” which have been reported since licensed premises and nightclubs have returned to comprehensive operation following the lifting of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. Spiking is the deliberate addition of drugs or alcohol to a person’s drink without their knowledge. It is believed that the greater accessibility during the pandemic of drugs and pharmaceutical compounds via online ordering has contributed to the rise in spiking incidents. Commentators have also noted an increase in ...

COLM SHALVEY The Owen Ward Cup will be presented for the first time since 2019 when Clontibret and Scotstown contest the Shoe City Senior Football League Final in Castleblayney tomorrow night (Friday). After the condensed 2020 season left no room for the club leagues, they returned this June, with the group stages being wrapped up prior to the championships starting. Clontibret and Scotstown have both reached this stage the hard way. Having overcome the absence of their sizable county contingents to finish third in their respective groups, the teams have come ...

The Peace Campus project currently being developed in Monaghan Town would epitomise the “future of promise and healing, reconciliation and hope” on the island of Ireland, Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD stated when he addressed a conference in Monaghan Co Museum on Friday last. In his speech to the “Experiences of Border minority communities – historical perspectives” conference staged at the Museum as part of the ongoing State programme to mark the Decade of Centenaries, the Taoiseach also reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to the realisation of the Ulster Canal restoration project ...

By Veronica Corr This beautiful photograph by Rory Geary, depicts one of Fianna Fáil’s youngest supporters presenting the Taoiseach Micheál Martin with a bouquet of flowers on Friday afternoon last. The little girl is Juliet Smyth, Deputy Niamh Smyth’s daughter. Deputy Smyth organised the event with Knockbride Cumainn. Juliet made the presentation to the Fianna Fáil leader at the centenary commemoration of her great-granduncle being sentenced to death during the War of Independence on charge of High Treason. She also dressed in a contemporary costume circa 1921 to mark the ...

Ballybay’s Kepak also benefits from Capital Investment funding €5 million in funding for North Monaghan’s Silver Hill Foods was announced on Tuesday as part of a Government package designed to assist companies in the meat and dairy sectors with development and diversification measures to counter the negative impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union. Keepak in Ballybay is to receive €916,919 from the Government’s “Capital Investment Scheme for the Processing and Marketing of Agricultural Products”. Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue TD said the €70 million funding package, to be split ...

By Veronica Corr Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD told The Northern Standard on Friday that he was confident that the Government’s plans for a COVID-19 booster programme would prevent the re-imposition of severe lockdown measures despite the currently high levels of Coronavirus cases: The Tánaiste said: “My expectation is that we won’t have to go backwards in terms of restrictions. The restrictions that we have in place at the moment will, more or less, remain as they are until we get through the winter. I have always felt that we had ...

At long last, the Farney County is to have its own anthem. With sponsorship from Entekra, Co Monaghan’s global leaders in residential and commercial off-site construction, the Mad About Monaghan business promotion group this week launched A Song for Monaghan, a competition open to anyone, anywhere in the world with the objective of giving Co Monaghan an identifying musical signature tune. “The chosen song will for ever more represent this great wee Drumlin county of Monaghan,” declared Mad About Monaghan “mammy” Liz McGuinness when announcing details of the global song ...

It has been confirmed to The Northern Standard that Gardaí in Carrickmacross executed a search warrant on Bank Holiday Monday night, 25th October at approximately 9 pm, on premises in Drummond Etra, which had been placed under surveillance as part of an intelligence-led operation related to the sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Carrickmacross and Monaghan areas. The search, which took place under the auspices of Operation Tara, uncovered significant evidence of a cannabis growhouse in operation. It is understood that a large quantity of cannabis, with an ...

The Gardaí and the HSE have been backed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in issuing an alert to Co Monaghan parents about jelly sweets containing cannabis which are in circulation in the run-up to Hallowe’en. The Food Safety Authority has joined with An Garda Síochána, the HSE and a number of other agencies, including Revenue’s Customs Services, in asking parents and guardians to be on the alert in relation to the illegal products, which they said were being “intentionally packaged to resemble popular brands of jellies in order ...