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TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS PREDICTED UNLESS UPWARD TREND HALTED 83 CASES IN TWO WEEKS Michael Fisher Concern was expressed this week by the country’s Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn over the rising number of new cases of Covid-19 in Co. Monaghan in the past fortnight. According to the latest statistics up to midnight on Monday, there have been 83 confirmed cases since September 14th,. Over half of those were added to the list in recent days. Monaghan is one of four counties along with Cork, Galway and Roscommon, where the rapid growth ...

MINISTER HUMPHREYS SAYS VOICE OF REGIONAL PRESS MUST BE PROTECTED – BUT NUJ CRITICAL OF BODY’S TERMS OF REFERENCE AND COMPOSITION The Government announced this week that it had agreed the terms of reference and membership of the Future of Media Commission, which will address the challenges confronting newspaper and broadcast journalism in Ireland and focus on its development over the next decade. Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Catherine Martin TD said that the Commission would have a role in addressing the “new and increased pressures” faced by traditional ...

Michael Fisher The health regulator has reported that a nursing home in Co. Monaghan where 22 residents died earlier this year at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was in compliance with State regulations. Inspectors from the Health and Information Quality Authority visited Drumbear Lodge nursing home on the Cootehill Road in Monaghan at the end of June. They found that just over half of the residents confirmed or suspected of having Covid-19 infections had died during an outbreak between April and June. Thirty-six reports published by HIQA last week ...

Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth has called for urgent action to address the rising number of suicides in her Cavan/Monaghan constituency. Deputy Smyth this week met with Minister of State with responsibility for Mental Health Mary Butler TD to discuss the need to improve mental health service provision in the constituency. She also voiced her concerns during a Topical Issues debate on mental health in Dáil Éireann. “There has been a marked increase in the number of suicides in my constituency. This has caused untold…

The Close Knit Community Group established by Glaslough Tidy Towns at the beginning of the Covid-19 restriction period has made an outstanding contribution to making the lives of Ireland’s homeless a little bit more comfortable. Group members have been working over recent months to produce as many knitted scarves as possible to donate to homeless charities. The group has spread its membership across the North Monaghan area, and 400 people of …

A considerable number of businesses across Co Monaghan still have not availed of the Restart Grant that is available to assist premises recommencing operations following the Covid-19 restrictions, it was revealed at Tuesday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. The Council appealed to employers who had not so far investigated the scheme to do so and to submit an application if they came within the qualifying criteria. Speaking at Tuesday’s Council meeting, Chief Executive Eamonn O’Sullivan said he wanted to recognise the good work that the Council’s finance team had done ...

A renewed momentum to the long-standing campaign to bring back services to Monaghan Hospital was in evidence this week, with the “hospital issue” becoming the subject of a local petition campaign and being discussed in both Dáil Éireann and the meeting chamber of Monaghan Co Council. The newly formed Monaghan Óghra Shinn Féin announced that they had initiated a petition to return acute care services to the Monaghan Hospital site. At national level SF TD for Cavan/Monaghan …

The reopening of pubs in Co Monaghan on Monday last was greeted enthusiastically by both the practitioners of the licensed trade and regular clientele who had been deprived of an important social outlet due to the Covid-19 restrictions imposed on the operation of the sector over the preceding six months. The normally quiet…

Monaghan Town’s Model School boasted a unique gathering when the new school term commenced. Heading out on the start of their education adventure together were three sets of twins: Hope and Jake, Izabelly and Gabriella, and Logan and Sophia, pictured here by Northern Standard photographer Rory Geary.

Everyone living and working in Co Monaghan can defeat Covid-19 by working together and following public health advice, Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys said on Tuesday as the next phase of the national strategy to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic was outlined. The Government described its Resilience & Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with Covid-19 as the guidebook for the national response to the pandemic over the next seven months. The plan defined five levels of severity for Covid-19 incidence into which each county in the ...