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Castleblayney Community Enterprise learned that an additional €473,000 in funding for the new Enterprise Hub, which will be located at the site known as The Ridge, was being made available through the Department of Rural and Community Development, when Minister Heather Humphreys visited the town last Friday morning. L-R: Monaghan County Council Chief Executive Eamonn O’Sullivan, Castleblayney Enterprise Centre Manager Tommy McGuire, Castleblayney Community Enterprise Director Padraig Watters, Senator Robbie Gallagher, Cathaoirleach of Monaghan County Council Colm Carthy, Minister Heather Humphreys, Carrickmacross/Castleblayney Municipal District Co-ordinator Damien Thornton, Councillor Aoife McCooey, ...

While an agreement has been reached in principle on the operation of the Northern Ireland protocol which forms part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, doubts still remained yesterday that the UK and the EU would reach an accord on post-Brexit trade issues as the scheduled period for talks approached their conclusion. European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič announced on Tuesday that he and his fellow Chair of the EU-UK Joint Committee, UK Chancellor Michael Gove, had reached an agreement in principle on all issues pertaining to the Withdrawal Agreement’s implementation. “This ...

Michael Fisher “It’s great to get back to some semblance of normality”. Those were the first thoughts of Minister for Social Protection, Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD as she arrived at the Ulster Canal Stores in Clones on Friday to launch an expansion of the Meals on Wheels service. The Canal Stores houses a lace museum and visitor centre as well as a bistro, but these have remained closed to the public because of the Covid pandemic. However a meals on wheels service was able to continue to ...

Michael Fisher The HSE along with An Garda Síochána and Monaghan County Council have made an urgent appeal to people to help stop the spread of Covid-19, following the relaxation in restrictions from level five to level three as Chrsitmas approaches. In a statement issued last Thursday, the authorities said the incidence rate of COVID19 in Co. Monaghan had come down in recent weeks and they thanked the communities in Monaghan and Cavan for all their hard work and efforts in working together to reduce the number of cases. The ...

Cathaoirleach of the Monaghan Municipal District Seamus Treanor is pictured by Northern Standard photographer Rory Geary backgrounded by the Monaghan festive lighting array which Councillor Treanor said would “bring a bit of Christmas cheer to the town” after perhaps the most challenging year in living memory for business and community life. The shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic which has blighted all aspects of life globally for much of 2020 ruled out the traditional switch-on event for the Monaghan Christmas illuminations in Church Square this year – but the Monaghan Town ...

Vaccine programme could begin in North next week; early January distribution in Republic signalled The commencement of the easing of restrictions on retail trade for the month of December and news that the distribution of a vaccine to combat the virus could begin in Northern Ireland as early as next week and be implemented in the Republic in early January lent more positivity to the Covid-19 situation this week than has been witnessed since the early stages of the pandemic’s onset. But the public were advised to “proceed with caution” and ...

No guarantee of deal says EU negotiator The post-Brexit trade talks between the EU and Britain were entering “crucial days” with no guarantee that a deal could be reached, the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said yesterday (Wednesday). Mr Barnier’s comments, in a video briefing delivered to Member State diplomats, came as businesses in Co Monaghan were encouraged to take steps to ensure they were fully conversant with the new Customs rules that would come into force once the Brexit transition period came to an end on December 31. ...

INCREASE IN ILLEGAL DRINKING DENS ANTICIPATED AS “WET PUB” CLOSURES CONTINUE A private premises in Castleblayney was raided by Gardaí on Saturday as part of an operation designed to shut down “shebeens” or illegal drinking dens. Covid-19 restrictions which have imposed closure on “wet pubs” in Ireland for much of this year have given rise to an increase in the operation of establishments where alcohol is illegally served, the Gardaí said this week, and the trend is expected to increase over the Christmas and New Year holiday period as legitimate licensed ...

By Veronica Corr The newly-renovated Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen Village this week found itself in the European spotlight for all the right reasons, having won a Heritage in Motion award for the centrepiece of the exhibition ‘The Pincer Jaws of Heaven’. The centre re-opened in July this year, following a €1 million restoration, and tells the story of one of the best-loved poets of the 20th century, though an immersive, multimedia experience. ‘The Pincer Jaws of Heaven’, was designed to “envelop visitors with a cinematic flying journey”, and connect ...

The appeal by GAA President John Horan for members of the Association to light a candle on Saturday last, November 21 as a memorial to the 14 people who lost their lives in Croke Park in the events of “Bloody Sunday” 100 years previously was movingly responded to by Clontibret brothers and GAA devotees Edward and Jonathan Rooney, as our accompanying photographs by Northern Standard photographer Rory Geary attest. As Edward and Jonathan performed their tribute in their Clontibret home, an evocative and melancholy ceremony was taking place in Croke ...