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Belfast Court Case Clears the Way for EirGrid to Proceed Michael Fisher The North South interconnector project has been given the green light to proceed as a result of a court case in Belfast. Mr Justice Scoffield refused to quash planning permission for the multi-million Euro project in the North, although he identified a legal flaw in the ministerial decision-making process. EirGrid’s Chief Executive Mark Foley indicated earlier this month the crossborder project would ramp up very considerably once the company got a positive outcome from the judicial process in Northern ...

the road and entered the ditch on the N12 at Knockaconny outside Monaghan Town on Tuesday morning was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The body of the man, in his 60s, was removed to the mortuary of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where a post mortem is expected to take place. No one else was injured and no other vehicles were involved in the incident, which occurred around 7.20 am. Gardaí and emergency services attended at the scene. The Monaghan to Armagh road was closed ...

An outline of ongoing works to progress the regeneration plans for the Dublin Street area of Monaghan Town was provided at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District in response to a question submitted by Sinn Féin representative Seán Conlon. In relation to the regeneration proposals for the south of Dublin Street and its backlands, the response to Councillor Conlon’s question stated: “RPS Design Consultants are continuing to progress detailed designs for road/footpath infrastructure, utility services, street furniture, landscaping and various other elements within the regeneration scheme. The Design Team ...

A 26-year-old woman who tendered a written apology to a sittings of the Circuit Criminal Court in Monaghan Town for causing the death of a friend in a road traffic accident at M a g h e r n a k i l l , Castleblayney on July 30 2012 was yesterday given a 12-month suspended prison sentence by Judge John Aylmer. Colleen McCann, of Drumacon, Castleblayney and with an address at Newry, Co Down, had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving causing the death of 17-year-old Ciaran ...

Claims were made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council that some of the people who had recently been sleeping rough in the streets of Monaghan Town were part of an organised begging operation. “There are people with five-bedroom houses in Dublin coming into Monaghan to beg,” Independent North Monaghan local public representative Seamus Treanor alleged during a discussion on the Draft Regional Homeless Action Plan, which was presented to the meeting by Co Council Social Worker Mary Walker. The issue of rough sleepers was initially raised during the discussion ...

A large number of Co Monaghan farmers travelled to Cavan on Friday last to take part in one of four regional rallies organised by the IFA to highlight concerns over reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy and climate change measures being contemplated by the Government which the sector fears could undermine farm viability. The early morning protest saw a cavalcade of factors and other agricultural transport vehicles wend its way to Cavan Courthouse. Addressing the assembly of around 250 farmers – with Monaghan and Cavan IFA members joined by Association ...

Monaghan’s Tessa Fleming is one of the faces fronting a new bilingual television series about animals and their owners that is airing on RTÉ 1 and BBC 2 Northern Ireland. Former Northern Sound journalist Tessa is presenting Peataí!, a new six-part series broadcasting on RTÉ 1 on Fridays at 7.30 pm and on BBC 2 on Mondays at 10 pm. “Presenter Tessa is an animal fanatic and throughout the series meets owners and their beautiful pets from the four corners of Ireland,” says series producer Muireann McGinity of Big Mountain ...

Monaghan Co Council has set a target to deliver 551 social housing units in the county between 2022 and 2025. The figure is considerably above the target of 361 houses set for the local authority by the Government under its recently announced Housing for All programme. The Council delivered 431 houses over the period of the previous Rebuilding Ireland programme, exceeding its target figure by 205. The statistics were outlined during Monday’s meeting of the Council in a presentation on the new Government housing strategy and the local authority’s own ...

As the British and Irish Governments awaited details yesterday, Wednesday evening of what were expected to be significant European Union changes in the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, campaign group Border Communities Against Brexit advised British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his administration to row back from making a “red line issue” of the role of the European Court of Justice in the Protocol’s operation. “The European Court of Justice is the final determiner in any dispute that might occur between the EU and the UK authorities and therefore ...

Sinn Féin member of Monaghan Co Council Colm Carthy was elected the new Chairperson of the Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board when the body met at the Garage Theatre in Monaghan Town on Tuesday. Councillor Carthy succeeds Cavan’s Sean Fegan in the role. Fine Gael member of Cavan Co Council Carmel Brady was elected Deputy Chairperson, succeeding April Anna Barker. During the meeting, Chief Executive John Kearney made presentations to the Board regarding the ETB’s Strategy Statement for 2022-2026. Mr Kearney said the new plan sought to build ...