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Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, and reigning Rose of Tralee Jennifer Byrne joined forces on Saturday to impart a vital health message to Co Monaghan women (Photo: © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard). Monaghan is one of the counties with the country’s lowest uptake of free screening services for cervical cancer – and the Minister and the Rose combined to support the Irish Family Planning Association’s Pearl of Wisdom campaign. The Minister was also present at Monaghan Courthouse on Saturday for the launch of ...

Campaigners say potential compensation offers to landowners are a ‘declaration of war’ Line gets planning approval in the North Michael Fisher The decision on Tuesday by a civil servant in Stormont to approve the northern section of the North South interconnector has made campaigners in Monaghan, Cavan and Meath even more determined to oppose EirGrid’s plans. It doesn’t change anything, according to the County Monaghan Anti Pylon Committee and the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign. In other developments, a meeting has been arranged next Tuesday by Minister Heather Humphreys between a delegation ...

By Veronica Corr Mr. Seamus Bell, was out in Carrickmacross on Saturday night last celebrating the christening of his four-monthold twin daughters Cara and Ava, with his partner Edel Tighe and members of their family, when he was the victim of an alleged assault. The 35-year-old is now in critical condition in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, having sustained head injuries in the incident which took place at the traffic lights on the Main Street of the town at 11.30pm. Vytautas Racys, a Lithuanian man, who is married with two children and ...

A Scott Gold Medal for bravery posthumously awarded to a Monaghan-born Garda who lost his life in a booby trap bomb explosion in 1976 has been presented for temporary display at Monaghan Co Museum. Relatives of the late Garda Michael Clerkin accepted the award from Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan TD at a ceremony at the Garda College in Templemore in early December. On Thursday last, Michael’s brother Peter handed over the medal to Co Museum Curator Liam Bradley so it could go on display as part of the exhibition ...

A Met Éireann Status Orange snow and ice warning remained in place for Co Monaghan until noon today, Thursday as local authority and emergency services continued to work to deal with the transport and power supply problems the Arctic weather had brought in its wake. Monaghan with counties Cavan and Donegal were among the locations hit hardest by the extensive snowfall that blanketed the country on…

By Veronica Corr Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Independent Alliance TD Kevin Boxer Moran, embarked on a whistle-stop tour of County Monaghan on Thursday last and he came bearing gifts in the shape of €150,000 in funding for three Minor Works Schemes to alleviate flooding in some of the areas worst affected. His first stop was a meeting with the Executive of Monaghan County Council and Oireachtas representatives, where €75,000 was announced for the….

Rugby star announces this season will be his last famous contemporary sporting sons has announced his plans to retire. Rugby international Tommy Bowe said this week that this season will be his last as a professional. Tommy took to Twitter to announce the news, and did so in verse: “I’ve spent most of my career in Belfast. At first George said I wasn’t very fast. I eventually found my gears, Had some incredible years, But it’s time to tell you – this is my last!” The 33-year-old Emyvale-born wing made his debut for Ireland in 2004 and has won 69 ...

THE FIRST BABY of the year in Cavan General Hospital was the hail and hearty Holly! Weighing in at a healthy 8lbs 12oz, Baby Holly Smyth brought cheer and smiles all round with her arrival at 12:15pm on Tuesday 2nd January as the first to be born in the Cavan’s maternity ward for 2018! The beautiful Holly may have been first in Cavan/Monaghan this year ….

COUNTY COUNCILLORS STAND UNITED ON UNDERGROUNDING Michael Fisher Minister Heather Humphreys is arranging a meeting between the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten T.D. and members of Monaghan County Council to discuss EirGrid’s plans for the North South interconnector. It follows a special meeting of Monaghan County Council on Monday, attended by local Oireachtas representatives. Meanwhile EirGrid has added two more agricultural liaison officers to its team. Their representatives will be in Castleblayney next Thursday for anyone who wants to talk to them about the interconnector plans. Cathaoirleach ...

BUT CHIEF EXECUTIVE ASSURES COUNCILLORS THERE IS NO DOWNSIDE TO PEACE IV PROJECT By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie INDEPENDENT Monaghan town-based county councillor Seamus Treanor’s concerns about immigration were again voiced strongly at Monday’s meeting of the local authority when he called on the Chief Executive to call a halt to the ‘County of Sanctuary’ project — which he described as “codology” and likely to encourage “undesirables” to “arrive in droves”. The initiative referred to by Cllr Treanor is to be implemented under the Peace IV Action Plan launched on 13th December ...