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The Foundation established in the memory of one of Monaghan’s most distinguished soccer sons, the late Sean McCaffrey, received a truly stellar launch in Monaghan’s Hillgrove Hotel on Sunday night last. Our photograph by Rory Geary shows Sean’s wife Irene flanked by two of the evening’s guests of honour – Burnley and Republic of Ireland star Robbie Brady (left), and John Delaney, Chief Executive of the Football Association of Ireland. See more photographs and report on page 28.

By PATSY McARDLE In an electorate of 91,062 for Cavan/Monaghan, a marginal 55.5 per cent of the 58,067 voters who went to the polls in the sprawling border constituency to cast their preferences in last Friday’s Referendum for a Repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, voted “Yes” to open the way for legalished abortion in the State. AS the outcome of the Referendum became clear on Saturday—with 66.4 per cent of the country voting for a repeal of the Amendment and…

A 50% increase in Bus Éireann services to Co Monaghan is expected to be put in place in the coming months. The National Transport Authority has granted an application by Bus Éireann to amend its licence in respect of Expressway Route 32 – the route from Letterkenny through Monaghan, Castleblayney, Carrickmacross and on to Dublin. This is subject to the provision of supporting paperwork from….

…But No Live TV Coverage Until June Michael Fisher Congratulations to both Monaghan teams on their performances in Omagh on Sunday. But many local fans who were unable to travel to Healy Park expressed their annoyance at RTÉ in particular for not broadcasting the Ulster senior football championship quarter final game live. It turned out to be a thrilling encounter. Monaghan saw off the challenge from current Ulster champions Tyrone by 1-18 to 1-16. Superbly taken frees and 45s by goalkeeper Rory Beggan and six points from Conor McManus including one ...

• Michael McDonnell THE NORTHERN STANDARD received confirmation from the HSE yesterday afternoon that Ballybay Community Crèche was closed earlier in the day after a “number of linked cases of VTEC infection” — a form of what is commonly termed E. coli had been detected at the facility. The crèche will remain closed pending screening of all children and staff for possible VTEC (the short for verotoxigenic E. coli) infection, and the HSE has also confirmed that the closure was put in place with the agreement of crèche management and ...

A Castleblayney man made history at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society Balmoral Show last Friday. A cow owned by James Lambe from Shantonagh became the first animal of the Dairy Shorthorn breed to win the highly prestigious dairy interbreed championship in Balmoral’s 150- year history. The scale of the achievement was described by one of Mr Lambe’s neighbours this week as akin to “the Monaghan footballers winning the Sam Maguire!” Mr Lambe himself explained the success in straight-forward terms: “She’s the best cow I’ve ever owned,” he told Farmers Weekly. ...

Michael Fisher “Brexit is no good for anybody”. That was the message from Sweden’s EU Minister Ann Linde during a visit to the border at Moybridge, Co. Monaghan yesterday. She was shown the crossing point into Co. Tyrone on the main N2 road from Dublin to Derry by the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD. Speaking to The Northern Standard, the Swedish Minister said she was interested to see that there was no border apart from a change in the road markings from a broken yellow line ...

– Entekra aims to conquer US housing market • Peter Hughes Recruitment is now actively underway to fill 100 new highskill positions in the Monaghan division of the home manufacturing firm Entekra, company co-founder Gerry McCaughey told The Northern Standard this week. Entekra, which is based in Monaghan and California, announced on Monday that it had secured a $55 million (€46 million) investment that would spur an expansion of its Monaghan operations to enable the company realise ambitious plans to create a dominant niche for itself in the US housing supply ...

But it could be 2029 before they are completed Michael Fisher Proposed flood prevention measures for Monaghan town, Inniskeen and Ballybay will have to wait up to ten years before they are completed according to an announcement last week by the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood relief, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran TD. The Minister visited Co. Monaghan in January in the company of the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation and local Fine Gael Deputy Heather Humphreys TD. He saw for himself a …

Monaghan’s maestro of the marathon Leslie Crawford was the recipient of a surprise celebration in his honour at Ballyalbany Hall on Monday last. Leslie’s friends in the local running fraternity arranged the function to mark his 200th marathon, the Belfast City event held earlier in the day. He is pictured with his wife Kanita and daughter Suzanne. © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard