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On Monday morning, 20th July 2020, what was described as a soft launch took place at the Patrick Kavanagh Centre Inniskeen, which has received an extensive refurbishment which cost in the region of €1 million. Booking is advised and the centre is open from Monday to Friday from 10am to 4.30pm. There was a small gathering present for the soft opening, with members of Inniskeen Enterprise and Development Group, Monaghan County Council and Carrickmacross/Castleblayney Cathaoirleachs, Local Authority officials and representatives of the media at local and national level. A larger ...

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 ...

Jack Charlton’s status as ‘Honorary Irishman’ was cited frequently during the outpouring of tearful tribute engendered by news of his passing last weekend. But the former Republic of Ireland soccer manager and World Cup winner as a player for England in 1966, the man who masterminded the maiden odysseys of the Boys in Green and their legion of supporters to the European Championships and the World Cup, the conjuror-in-chief of sainted memories for a generation of the nation, could also lay claim to the title of ‘Honorary Monaghanman’ – thanks ...

Another stage in the ongoing development work by Donagh Development Association at Emy Lake has been completed and the official opening of the New Gates at the Car Park area was carried out on Saturday, July 11th at 10.00am. At the event the Keys of the New Gate were presented by Gerald Kelly of GK Steelworks, to Francie Watterson, who has been the contractor for the recent developments of the Beach and the walls and pillars at the gateway. He in turn presented the Keys to Chairman of the DDA, ...

Michael Fisher There were no new cases of Covid-19 recorded in Co. Monaghan in the past week up as far as Sunday night. Since June 10th there have been only four positive cases. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre statistics showing a total of 538 cases in the county since mid- March were published as a new app was made available to the public for mobile phones to be used for contact tracing. On Monday, the Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys TD, announced that the number of people receiving the ...

A once-off financial support scheme for 14 poultry flock owners in Co Monaghan impacted by avian influenza has been announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Barry Cowen TD. A strain of LPAI or low pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed four months ago in a number of flocks in Co. Monaghan, which is the centre of Irish poultry production, leading to the affected producers having to cull their birds. The bird flu strain identified has no food safety implications but does impact on flock productivity. Minister Cowen said ...

Sinn Féin will press for radical changes in health service policy in order to advance the restoration and development of hospital services in Monaghan and other locations, Cavan/Monaghan Deputy Matt Carthy pledged this week. The Carrickmacross politician, who was this week appointed his party’s Frontbench Spokesperson on Agriculture and the Marine, was severely critical of the HSE over information which had emerged on the level of spending on agency staff in the Cavan/Monaghan Hospital Group, declaring that this exposed “the failings of Government health policy in this region”. Deputy Carthy ...

A judge in Belfast has set a hearing date in ten weeks’ time for lawyers representing a former British soldier accused of the unlawful killing of Aiden McAnespie at a border checkpoint outside Aughnacloy over thirty years ago to challenge the prosecution case against him. During a remote video link hearing on Friday at Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice O’Hara said the defence ‘No Bill’ application (that there are no grounds for indictment) will be held on Thursday September 17th. The judge told prosecution and defence lawyers that if the ...

• Heather Humphreys and Catherine Martin appointed Ministers in historic FF/FG/Green Coalition Co Monaghan has two women at the Cabinet table in the historic Coalition Government involving an alliance of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. Fine Gael Deputy for Cavan/Monaghan Heather Humphreys is the new Minister for Social Protection, Community and Rural Development, and the Islands. Carrickmacross native Catherine Martin, deputy leader of the Green Party and TD for the Dublin Rathdown constituency, was given the portfolio of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht. The new ...