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By Veronica Corr There was tremendous excitement at the new Holy Family School building in Cootehill on Thursday last, June 17th, when the Minister for Education, Norma Foley visited the facility at the request of Fianna Fáil Deputy Niamh Smyth. When asked if the visit to the school had been a highlight of her tenure in education, the former teacher said that it most certainly was and she even committed to returning for the official opening of the new school building. The school community was well represented at the informal ...

ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS KEY FOCUS OF INITIATIVE, JPC TOLD There were currently 137 active cases before the Cavan/Monaghan Divisional Protective Services Unit established by the Gardaí in July last year to investigate sexual crimes and serious domestic violence incidents, Tuesday’s meeting of Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee was informed. In a presentation to the meeting, Garda Detective Sergeant Rose McGirl said that the Cavan/Monaghan DPSU was “very much a victim-centred unit” with a focus on creating the optimum environment for victims of sexual crime and domestic coercive control to disclose ...

Michael Fisher Monaghan and Ireland mourned the loss during the past week of one of its best known and admired citizens, the feminist and women’s rights campaigner, Mamo McDonald. Mamo, who was born in Co. Galway but spent most of her 91 years bringing up her family in Clones and then moved to Drumully, Smithborough, was widely respected as a former President of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association. She was honoured with a People of the Year award in 1999 for her services to Irish women and older people. Mrs McDonald ...

Our picture by Rory Geary shows the new Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, Castleblayney Fine Gael local public representative Aidan Campbell, accepting his chain of office from predecessor Colm Carthy of Sinn Féin following the Annual Meeting of the local authority in Monaghan’s Garage Theatre on Monday. Councillor Campbell in his acceptance speech remarked on the coincidence of the Annual Meeting with the Summer Solstice, “a day of hope” when they experienced the maximum of sunshine and the least of darkness. “Following the last 16 months of darkness and fear, ...

The dramatic incident during Saturday’s European Championship game between Denmark and Finland, when Danish player Christian Eriksen had to receive life-saving treatment on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest, prompted the Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council on Monday to call for the production of a countywide map which would highlight the locations of AED or Automated External Defibrillator units. Speaking at what was his last official meeting in the Council Chair, Sinn Féin’s Colm Carthy said the weekend had seen the eyes of the world on a victim of ...

Sinn Féin representative Seán Conlon staged a walkout protest at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council after his method of attempting to raise a pedestrian safety issue on the N2 was objected to by some of the executive and elected members of the local authority. Councillor Conlon sought to highlight concerns over crash barrier positioning on part of the N2 by having a series of photographs he had submitted displayed on screen at the meeting, which took place in Monaghan Town’s Garage Theatre. However, his method of raising the issue ...

Michael Fisher There has been a steady decline in the number of Covid cases in Monaghan, according to the latest data released by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). Since the cyber attack on the HSE’s IT systems last month, the release of detailed statistics by the Department of Health has been suspended. In the last such report before the HSE system collapsed, the data revealed that in Co. Monaghan on Wednesday May 12th, the Covid incidence rate per 100,000 population over 14 days was up, at 110.8 (below the ...

Some of the group at the sod turning for the new Digi Hub centre at M:Tek in Monaghan, were (L-R) Paul Shortt, Chairman, Enterprising Monaghan, Stephen Maguire, Rodney Brady Contractors, Rodney Brady. Rodney Brady Contractors, Finbarr Daly, Enterprising Monaghan, Heather Humphreys, TD – Minister for Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands, Peter McGonigle and Ronan Fitzpatrick, CraftStudio Architects, Cathaoirleach of Monaghan County Council, Cllr Colm Carthy and Senator Robbie Gallagher. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard. (See full story inside).

Jack gives Minister positive verdict on Clones child development centre The delight on five-year-old Jack Hall’s face as he engaged with occupational therapist Brionán McAleer in pursuing his development goals proved to Minister Heather Humphreys that the Sensational Kids facility she officially opened in Clones on Friday last truly lives up to its name. The Clones branch of the award-winning child development initiative will cater for children from throughout Co Monaghan as well as counties Cavan and Longford. The Minister for Social Protection described her official opening engagement as “a great ...

President Michael D Higgins has expressed his praise for a bestselling book by Cootehill author, campaigner, and charity founder Ruairí McKiernan, saying that the volume – Hitching for Hope – A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland – “offers hope” during these turbulent times. President Higgins says the book “is in the fine tradition of a search for what is most valuable in the different spaces of Ireland and how they might help us craft a new way forward together.” He says it is “empathic in approach, well ...