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The Government was in the final stages of preparation for what would be the most ambitious strategy in the history of the State for the delivery of affordable homes, Minister for Justice, Social Protection, and Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys stated in Castleblayney last week. Minister Humphreys was officiating at a ceremony to mark the completion of 25 new social housing units at Radharc An Bhrí, part of a 38- dwelling project involving the approved housing body Tuath Housing. The new homes have been allocated to applicants from the ...

COUNTY HAS SECOND HIGHEST INCIDENCE RATE OF THE VIRUS Michael Fisher Monaghan has seen a worrying spike in the number of Covid cases in the past week. On Monday, 42 cases were reported and the county now has the second highest 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population in the State (668). The Department of Public Health North East, Monaghan GAA and Monaghan County Council are appealing to people in Monaghan to continue to follow public health advice because of their concerns over the sharp increase in Covid-19 cases in Monaghan in ...

Solutions urgently being sought as EPA refuses future licences over ammonia emission concerns Active steps are being taken at local authority and stakeholder level to identify a solution to a planning quandary which is stifling expansion of the important poultry production sector in certain areas of Co Monaghan. Monaghan Co Council is being prevented from granting planning permission for poultry units in some locations because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not grant the developments a licence because of concerns over ammonia emissions. The EPA wrote to licence applicants and planning ...

The death on Friday last, July 16 in a road traffic accident of 19-year-old Brendan Óg Ó Dufaigh, the captain of Co Monaghan’s U-20s Gaelic football team, has caused widespread shock and grief throughout the county and in sporting circles nationwide. Mr Ó Dufaigh had played a starring role as centre half back in Monaghan’s 3-10 to 1-11 victory over Donegal in the Ulster U-20 Championship semi-final in Brewster Park in Enniskillen earlier in the evening and was driving home from the Monaghan GAA training facility at Cloghan when the ...

Margaret Urwin of the Justice for the Forgotten campaign group, established in relation to the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Town, has called on the Irish Government to seek the intervention of United States President Joe Biden to try to halt the intention of the British Government to introduce an effective amnesty for crimes carried out during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Ms Urwin urged President Biden to speak out on the issue and said it would be helpful if the Irish Government could make representations to Mr Biden in ...

Confirmation that 23 new step-down care beds promised for Monaghan Hospital were now all fully operational was welcomed at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. But Sinn Féin representative Brian McKenna emphasised that what was required at the facility was additional services and the medical staff to run them, pointing to the disincentive to economic investment in the county which the lack of full hospital services created. Welcoming the 23 beds that had come on stream at the hospital, Independent councillor Seamus Treanor said it was great to see ...

The Border Communities Against Brexit campaign groups has said that the British Government’s attempts to seek major changes in the Northern Ireland protocol is an attempt to pit the two communities in Ireland against each other. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis MP in a statement to the House of Commons yesterday called for an end to virtually all checks on goods made in Britain intended for sale in Northern Ireland. There was speculation as we went to press that the British Government was prepared to back its calls for major ...

Taoiseach’s Aide de Camp Commandant Caroline Burke joined the attendance in St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town yesterday, Wednesday morning for the Funeral Mass of Brendan Óg “Ógie” Ó Dufaigh, the Monaghan football U-20 captain and Monaghan Harps player who died in a road accident at Clontibret on Friday last. The attendance at the Cathedral was limited by Covid-19 regulatory guidance but the depth of grief in the community engendered by the young man’s passing and the solidarity with the Ó Dufaigh family was evident from the large crowds of ...

The plan to extend the Ulster Canal Greenway from Coolshannagh in Monaghan Town to Ardgonnell Bridge was given a planning “green light” at the July meeting of Monaghan Co Council when the elected members approved a notice in relation to the project under Part VIII of the Planning and Development Regulations. Senior Planner Toirleach Gourley told the meeting that the project involved an extension of the existing Ulster Canal Greenway from Monaghan over to the Border at Middletown. It would involve the widening of the towpath, drainage and the provision ...