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By Veronica Corr The 50th anniversary of Senator Billy Fox’s death was marked on Sunday last with wreathlayings in Senator Billy Fox Memorial Park and at his grave in the grounds of Christ Church, Aughnamullen, where there was an Ecumenical Service and a plaque unveiled. Conditions were fine for the outdoor leg of proceedings where An Taoiseach Simon Harris was the keynote speaker. Senator Billy Fox was the only member of the Oireachtas to have been murdered during The Troubles and he was only 35 years old at the time ...

The village of Rockcorry was in celebration on Friday evening when Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys arrived with the news of a €2.66 million allocation to enable a long-held ambition for the construction of a new community facility in the area to be realised. Rockcorry was one of 12 successful applicants for support under the Community Centre Investment Fund operated by Minister Humphreys’ Department. The Minister made the national announcement in Newcastle in Galway on Saturday, but the evening before the people of Rockcorry were requested to ...

Popularity of Monaghan amenity confirmed by Coillte as play park extension initiated PETER HUGHES Rossmore Forest Park in Monaghan attracted 357,834 visits in 2023, retaining its No 1 position as the most popular of Coillte’s public park amenities. The continuing national primacy of Rossmore as a visitor attraction added further celebratory glitter to Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys’ visit to the amenity on Thursday last to turn the sod for an extension of the children’s play area. €150,000 from the Community Recognition Fund administered by Minister Humphreys’ Department ...

PETER HUGHES Underneath its arches where many an important deal was done in times long past, a contract was signed on Friday for works that will bring the 1848 Market House building in Ballybay back into vibrant and purposeful existence. Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys TD joined a gathering of local civic leaders for the occasion, her Department having sanctioned €410,000 in Rural Regeneration and Development Fund support for the restoration of a building once a focal point for commercial, business, legal and social activity in the ...

It’s just one vintage weekend after another for Co Monaghan. Our photograph by Rory Geary shows some of the immaculately conserved vintage vehicles assembled at O’Neill’s Garden Centre in Glaslough, where the Morris Minor Owners Club Northern Ireland made a stopover on Easter Monday afternoon. What promises to be a vintage weekend of sport will soon be upon us with excitement in store for rallying and Gaelic football followers. Perhaps the largest-scale event in the Co Monaghan sporting calendar is headquartered in Monaghan Town on Sunday, when three stages of ...

The severe impact on the Co Monaghan fuel retail sector of an excise duty increase due to take effect next month was highlighted at local and national political level this week. Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil Senator Robbie Gallagher raised the issue in the Seanad (see below), while the members of the Monaghan Municipal District on Monday gave unanimous support to a motion of urgent business placed before them by Independent local public representative Paudge Connolly. Councillor Connolly’s motion highlighted the fact that the UK Government had postponed a proposed increase in ...

By Veronica Corr Friday was a proud day for Councillor PJ O’Hanlon, who, in his capacity as Chairperson of Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB), officiated the opening of Carrickmacross Youthreach Centre on Main Street, in the former Ulster Bank premises in Carrickmacross. The protected building had new life breathed into it, as a sympathetic renovation converted it into a vocational education and training facility for early school leavers. The three-storey building has been futureproofed and Carrickmacross Youthreach has been able to realise a long-held ambition to expand ...

Close to 700 vehicles took part in a tractor run staged last weekend in memory of a young Clontibret man. Such was the scale of the sight that, as our photograph by Rory Geary illustrates, only the heightened vantage point of a tractor itself could afford onlookers an adequate view of the spectacle. The event marked what would have been the 18th birthday of Jake Brennan of Clontibret, who lost his life in a road traffic accident last year. It has already generated in excess of €16,000 for the Irish ...

The case of a two-year-old Scotstown girl awaiting spinal surgery was cited in the Dáil this week during a debate on a Sinn Féin motion which sought to address what local TDs from the party branded “the scandal of growing waiting lists for children with scoliosis and spina bifida”. Aoibh Rooney was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) and has been under the care of Orthopaedics since she was born. Her parents Eavan and Philly have been campaigning to have issues relating to her consultant orthopaedic surgeon resolved by the ...

COLM SHALVEYTALKING POINTS In a game where both sides managed impressive shot conversion rates of over 80%, it was Derry’s ability to eke out the bulk of the scoring chances (25 to 16) that made the difference. Like in other recent meetings of these teams, with the exception of their championship groupstage clash at Celtic Park last year, Derry made hay from counter-attacks, picking Monaghan off on the break for a series of scores, including their second-half goals from Pádraig McGrogan and Conor Doherty. They joined fellow defender Conor McCluskey in ...