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By Cianna McNally A rural bus service could be up and running in Co Monaghan by September if a local initiative gets approved. Padraic Smyth, Manager of Cavan Monaghan Transport Coordination Unit CLG (CMTCU) met with members of Ballybay- Clones Municipal District at their July meeting and explained that the Rural Transport Programme was being rebranded as Local Link Cavan and Monaghan. The service, which will be launched nationally at this year ’s Ploughing Championships, is currently based in Cootehill and was, according to Mr Smyth, in a real growth ...

“Ireland would not work if there was no community – community is the base of all that goes on.” So commented Pride of Place judge William Beatty from Co Tyrone after he and fellow adjudicator Donal Connolly from Co Waterford had completed their inspection of the three Co Monaghan entrants in this year’s Co-operation-Ireland organised competition, which has the declared aim of “acknowledging the work that communities do all over Ireland.” The judges were warm in their praise of the vibrant community spirit animating all the county’s contenders for…

Monaghan company Mullan Lighting, a leading designer and manufacturer of light fixtures, has secured a major contract in Dubai that is close to completion. The contract sees the company manufacture 1,500 custom-made outdoor light fittings at La Mer, a landmark beachfront development currently under construction in the city of Dubai. Established in 2008 by architect Mike Treanor, Mullan Lighting has grown to employ 45 people in a picturesque north Monaghan village. The company has grown rapidly over the last five years with turnover last year exceeding €2.7 million. Mullan Lighting ...

SF CO COUNCILLORS CLAIM VINDICATION AS COMPANY OPTS FOR SITE CHANGE Master Fire, the life safety systems company that announced plans to locate their headquarters in Carrickmacross in March, has expanded the scope of its original ambitions for the development and predicted that it will now generate over 100 jobs within the next two-three years. The enhanced vision cultivated for the Carrick project by the company, which is helmed by South Monaghan men Paul McNulty (sales director) and John Cunningham (managing director), has necessitated its changing location from the original site ...

BREAK OUT THE BUBBLY! – The National Lottery’s €6.4 million winning golden ticket was sold at Argue’s Londis Service Station, Cootehill, last Wednesday. Speculation about who may or may not be the newly minted millionaire has been in overdrive all week — but to no avail, as yet! Jim Argue and his people were in champers celebration mode from the start as the snappers and reporters converged on the convenience store…

Members of the organising committee are pictured by our photographer Rory Geary supervising the final stage of the preparations for this weekend’s much anticipated Monaghan Town Country Music Festival 2017. With the stage now literally set in The Diamond, the countdown is well and truly advanced for the four-day extravaganza, which kicks off tonight, Thursday with Jimmy Buckley headlining the bill. With the weather set to stay fair and fans from all over the country and abroad already ensconced in and around the town to swell the customarily massive local ...

Going “up the courthouse steps” is a phrase with ominous connotations in Monaghan Town as it usually denotes a humbling appearance before the judiciary who preside in the imposing edifice that dominates Church Square. But Canadian Ambassador to Ireland Kevin Vickers put a much more pleasurable connotation on the journey during Saturday’s Canada Day in Monaghan celebrations. The envoy extemporised his own “Courthouse stepdance” as he introduced a special…

Monaghan woman flew the flag for the county at the World Transplant Games and took home two gold medals. Smithboro native and kidney transplant recipient, Michelle Reinhardt McCabe won two gold medals in athletics in her debut at the event, which took place in Málaga, Spain last week. The World Transplant Games is an international sporting event for transplant athletes. It demonstrates the physical success of transplant surgery and the ability of transplant recipients to lead healthy, normal lives. The event also aims to significantly enhance the understanding and acceptance ...

By Veronica Corr Ulster Bank remains at the top of the agenda for Carrickmacross/Castleblayney Municipal District’s (MD) meetings and at last week’s, Cllr. Noel Keelan expressed his disbelief that the MD had received a response from the bank, after they sent several requests for meetings and further information on the closure of the protected Main Street building on Main Street, Carrickmacross, that had previously been ignored. District Co-ordinator Gareth McMahon stated that he had met with representatives from Ulster Bank recently and had raised members’ concerns about staffing and was ...

Michael Fisher Campaigners against EirGrid’s proposed overhead interconnectorlinking electricity grids on both sides of the border have strongly criticised the latest move by the Communications Minister, Denis Naughten TD to set up a second study into levels of compensation for landowners. The County Monaghan Anti- Pylon Committee also accused Minister Heather Humphreys TD of miselading a recent meeting between Oireachtas members and Monaghan County Councillors over the terms of reference for the new study. Minister Humphreys said she absolutely refuted any suggestion she had misled the meeting, the details of which ...