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The “heroic” effort made by members of the Monaghan Civil Defence to support community assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic was praised by the Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, Councillor Colm Carthy when he performed the official opening of the organisation’s new headquarters on Friday last. The new base, located adjacent Monaghan Fire Station at Annahagh, provides personnel with training and lecture rooms and office space, welfare facilities and storage capacity for fleet, equipment and boats. Funded by Monaghan Co Council with an assisted contribution from the Civil Defence Branch of ...

Michael Fisher Monaghan Professor Sam McConkey from Killeevan, who is an expert in viruses, has urged caution before any indoor events or hospitality venues are opened up to crowds while the pandemic continues. The RCSI consultant in infectious diseases was speaking in an interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland programme on Monday. He was commenting after the scenes of outdoor gatherings of large crowds in Dublin and other cities at the weekend were compared to ‘V-Day’ celebrations by a leading HSE figure. Following the scenes of widespread street drinking at the ...

Michael Fisher A lobby group opposed to EirGrid’s plans for a high voltage electricity line across five counties from Meath to Tyrone, including Monaghan, has told the Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan TD the ‘day of reckoning’ will come over the North South interconnector. The North East Pylon Pressure Campaign that represents hundreds of landowners along part of the route who want the infrastructure put underground says the proposed overhead line and 400 pylons will never be accepted by the communities affected. It says their views have been airbrushed out ...

Glaslough the venue for launch of 2021 competition The North Monaghan village of Glaslough was the appropriate venue chosen by Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys TD on Friday morning for the announcement that the SuperValu national Tidy Towns competition would make a comeback in 2021. Glaslough fulfilled a long-cherished dream by winning the national competition for the second time in 2019. Covid-19 restrictions preventing the holding of the contest last year, the first time in over 60 years that the iconic event had not been staged. Minister Humphreys ...

Calls were made at the May meeting of Monaghan Co Council for Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive to match the commitment being shown by Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Irish Government Minister Heather Humphreys in relation to the reopening of the Ulster Canal. During a discussion on the project, Sinn Féin councillor Pat Treanor referred to a recent meeting held by ICBAN or the Irish Central Border Area Network, on which he was a Co Council delegate, with the Waterways Ireland Chief Executive, who explained that Waterways Ireland were ...

One of the founders of the Bealtaine Festival which celebrates the artistic and creative abilities of older people, Mamo McDonald of Clones, made an integral contribution to the festival’s celebration at St Anne’s Nursing Home in Ballybay on Friday last. A former national president on the ICA, Mamo joined with Age and Opportunity CEO Catherine Rose 26 years ago to initiate the very first Bealtaine programme, and has participated in the festival every year since then. On Friday last Mamo joined her fellow residents of St Anne’s to keep the ...

Politicians at national and local level strongly re-emphasised the need to bring justice to the survivors and victims’ relatives of the 1974 bombings in Monaghan Town and Dublin as the 47th anniversary of the atrocities was marked on Monday May 17 last. In a statement marking the anniversary, Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys TD emphasised the Government’s commitment “to seek out the truth behind those events and, hopefully, to secure some measure of comfort for the victim’s families and the survivors.” The Cavan/Monaghan TD said the Government would continue to ...

Severe penalties for those responsible for incidents such as the recent dumping of dead animal carcases in the scenic Sliabh Beagh area of North Monaghan were urged by the members of the Monaghan Municipal District on Monday as they were presented with details of a new strategy being evolved at local authority level to deal with littering problems across Co Monaghan that were costing in excess of €1 million per year to address. The draft Litter Management Plan for 2021-2023 was presented to the meeting by Sharon Finnegan of Monaghan ...

There has been widespread condemnation of the dumping of around 35 carcases of dead lambs in the scenic Sliabh Beagh area of North Monaghan. The dead animals were discovered along the popular Esh walking trail near Poll an Aifrinn in the area on Wednesday of last week when local people alerted Monaghan Co Council, who put in place an operation to have the carcases removed from the area. The Co Council said that the lambs were dumped in twos and threes every 20-30 metres for a distance of approximately a ...

News of the death in London on May 4 last in his 90th year of William Warner Westenra, the 7th Baron Rossmore, evoked sadness and tributes in Co Monaghan where the Rossmore name is closely woven into local history and culture. “Paddy” Rossmore, as he became known among the jet set of swinging ‘60s London, where he won fame as a society photographer and member of a celebrity milieu that saw him for a time engaged in a headline-making relationship with the singer Marianne Faithfull, preserved close links with the ...