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Michael Fisher The two centuries link between Monaghan town and its once dominant landlord is being cut as Lord Rossmore puts up for sale the last of his land in Rossmore Park. ‘It’s the end of an era’ according to Noel Carney, Chair of the Monaghan Heritage Network and member of the Dartrey Heritage Association. According to the auctioneers Gartlan O’Rourke who are handling the sale, the land at Drumbear on the Cootehill road includes 46 acres (18.6 hectares) of mostly forested land and three lakes. The agents say there ...

By PATSY McARDLE SERIOUS cross-border concerns have surfaced in Border towns in relation to the possible–and uncertain–implications from Brexit for local communities, including social, sporting, and commercial bodies, in the region. While traders and trade bodies in Co Monaghan are hopeful of minimal repercussions in respect of business links, with hopes also of some firms moving southwards from the North—so that they can retain a base within the EU—there are also some hazy suggestions that the Border region could be turned into a new ‘tax haven’! Recently, a team of top British civil ...

By Veronica Corr Art McArdle from Inniskeen and now living in Magheracloone, played a blinder on Sunday night’s Dragons’ Den on RTE One. The inventor of Heat Hero, based on the Shercock Road, Carrickmacross, asked Dragons for an investment of €60,000 and he succeeded. Eleanor McEvoy, the Dragon most involved in the energy sector, put her money where her mouth was, in return for 32% of the company that Art owns and runs with his wife Adrienne. The down-to-earth plumbing entrepreneur was a big hit with the Dragons with his quick wit and ...

GARDAI are investigating a vicious attack on a Drumgoonbased farmer and former Cavan Co Council election candidate, who told the Northern Standard that he was attacked with spiked bars and sticks by a group of masked men after they rammed his car. Harry Reburn, aged 58, says he fears for his safety while living living on his own — after what he calls a 20-minute ordeal that occurred while he was on his way home from Mass on Easter Saturday. He suspects that up to six men who carried out ...

Michael Fisher The IFA President Joe Healy has said Brexit is the greatest threat to Irish farming in our lifetimes. He was speaking at a conference at Goffs in Kill, Co. Kildare attended by over 600 farners. They included a group of around 25 from County Monaghan led by County Chairman Frank Brady and Vice Chair Brian Treanor. Mr Treanor told the Northern Standard the meeting on Monday had been very informative. The speakers included the EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, the President of the European Farmers’ Union COPA, Martin Merrild, and ...

It’s business as usual at a new location for the long-established Monaghan Town business of Albany Home Décor. The home decoration and paint outlet commenced trading again this week in bright and spacious new premises at Latlurcan on the Dublin Road, beside Drumbriston Furniture. A number of weeks ago Albany’s premises in Market Street was severely damaged by fire, dealing a heavy blow to the McAdam family who set up the business 46-and-a-half years ago and built it into one of the most progressive in its sphere of trading in the Border ...

The quality of floats entered in this year’s Monaghan Town St Patrick’s Day Parade came in for high praise on Tuesday at a ceremony to present awards to the entrants adjudged the most outstanding across a range of categories. The difficulty which parade guest of honour John Skinner, the Mayor of Douglas on the Isle of Man, and the other adjudicators faced in coming to their final determination was referred to by Cathaoirleach of the Monaghan Municipal District David Maxwell prior to the prize presentations. The ceremony took ...

A new book being publicised as the first to explore the issues arising from Border security during the most intensive period of the Northern Ireland Troubles was launched in Monaghan Co Museum on Friday last. “Bombs, Bullets and the Border – Policing Ireland’s Frontier: Irish Security Policy, 1969-1978” is published by Irish Academic Press. Its author Patrick Mulroe is a teacher in Monaghan with a PhD in Politics from the University of Ulster. He has lived and worked all his life in …

Commitments given by the Dept of Education and Skills on Friday last should mean that there will be no further delays in bringing a major building project planned for Cootehill’s Holy Family School to construction stage, Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan/Monaghan Brendan Smith told The Northern Standard this week. Deputy Smith raised the issue during a debate in Dáil Éireann early last week following concerns expressed to him by the board of management of the school. The FF TD said he was informed by the Dept on Friday that it is their ...

“We need to get it out of our heads that there will be a soft Border – there will be no soft Border and there can’t be,” stated Fianna Fáil’s Pádraig McNally at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council during a debate which reflected mounting concern among local political representatives at the adverse fall out the county might have to deal with as a consequence of the UK’s ‘Brexit’ decision to leave the European Union. Members were of the view that the issues facing Co Monaghan were so serious ...