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Michael Fisher County Monaghan for the past fortnight has remained top of the list for the number of positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in the Republic over a two weeks period. This has led to another joint appeal from the HSE Public Health North East, An Garda Síochána, and Monaghan County Council, who have urged the public to stay at home and protect local communities. Their statement is as follows: “The Department of Public Health North East, An Garda Síochána, Cavan and Monaghan County Council are appealing to the ...

Calls for the temporary closure of road links between the Republic and Northern Ireland as a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19 were described as “totally impractical” by Senator Robbie Gallagher this week. Speaking on the Order of Business in Seanad Éireann on Monday, Senator Gallagher said that while sealing the Border was “a non-runner”, there was scope for enhanced cross-Border co-operation in the area of Covid-19 control. The Fianna Fáil Senator welcomed the fact that the incidence of Covid-19 was decreasing in the Republic of Ireland. “We have ...

Tension that had arisen over the Northern Ireland protocol element of the Brexit agreement in the last week showed no signs of dissipating yesterday. Although the European Commission quickly backtracked on an initial indication last week that it would trigger a safeguard clause in the protocol – Article 16 – to introduce monitoring controls on the export of Covid-19 vaccines, the controversy sparked by the threatened move has manifested in a week of strong political commentary on both sides of the Border and in the UK. If the Commission had ...

Sinn Féin TD Pauline Tully has expressed her anger at the response she received from the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communication, Eamon Ryan TD to a recent Parliamentary Question she submitted on the North South Interconnector. The Cavan Monaghan Deputy told The Northern Standard: “In a parliamentary question I recently submitted to the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communication, Eamon Ryan, I requested if he would ‘establish a consultation process for the communities affected by the proposed north-south interconnector with the option of undergrounding this project… in view of ...

The formal contract signing for the €17.6 million Monaghan Peace Campus project took place at the Monaghan Co Council meeting chamber in the M-TEK building, Knockaconny on Friday last, July 10. The four-storey development, to take place at the former local authority machinery yard site at The Plantation in Monaghan Town, will incorporate community space, a youth facility, a new town library and a cultural heritage area. The project is supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) which awarded €9.5 ...

Leading Co Monaghan manufacturing firm Combilift has been announced as the winner of the International Forklift of the Year Award for its innovative Combi-CS pedestrian counterbalance stacker forklift. The announcement comes after an international judging process. The IFOY Awards are one of the most prestigious and hotly contested international awards in the materials handling industry, honouring the best products and solutions of the year. The Monaghan company won the Warehouse Truck Lowlifter Category for its innovative Combi- CS product. Finalists’ products underwent stringent IFOY audit and innovation checks by industry ...

The death took place on Friday morning, 8th January, of Eddie Gallagher of Highfield Close, Killygoan, Monaghan town. A highly regarded and long time resident of the county town, the late Mr. Gallagher was a native of the Glaslough area of Co. Monaghan. In his 80th year, Eddie is survived by his wife Mary and by their family Patsy, Cathy, Teresa, Eamon, Collette, John, Margaret, Edward and Martina, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and by his grandchildren. He is also mourned by his brother Hugh and sisters Maureen, Rose, Tess, Josie and Dolores ...

INCIDENCE RATE OVER FOURTEEN DAYS IS HIGHEST IN STATE Michael Fisher As Covid-19 continues to spread in the community in Co. Monaghan, the level of cases over two weeks is now the highest in the Republic and over double the national average. On Wednesday evening the incidence rate stood at 1638.8 and Monaghan was top of the list of twenty-six counties. The same day 275 positive cases were added to the total in the county which now stands at 2467. In the past week, daily totals of over 5000 and 6000 ...

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has reiterated his call for the Government to instruct the HSE to restore additional services to Monaghan Hospital. He said this week that that the removal of services from local hospitals such as Monaghan by successive Governments had been exposed as a fallacy during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Dáil prior to the Christmas break, Deputy Carthy had asked Health Minister Stephen Donnelly whether additional services would be restored to Monaghan Hospital in 2021. In his response, Minister Donnelly stated: “The services at Monaghan Hospital, ...

BUT VIRUS EXPERT SAM MCCONKEY SAYS JABS ARE NOT A SIMPLISTIC ANSWER TO THE PANDEMIC Michael Fisher Medical staff from Monaghan and Cavan Hospitals began to receive their Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccinations yesterday at Cavan General Hospital. Residents of 25 nursing homes throughout the country have also been receiving injections this week as the HSE begins its inoculation programme. The first groups to get the COVID-19 vaccine are people aged 65 years and older who live in long-term care facilities as they have a greater risk of serious illness if they ...