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Diversified renewable energy group NRG Panel of Castleblayney has announced that it will create up to 125 new highly skilled jobs across the island of Ireland within the next three to five years. CEO Conor Foley said this week that the business is investing heavily to drive the next stage of its growth, including plans to double business within the next three years, supported by its investor, leading private equity firm Melior Equity Partners. Melior Equity Partners Fund II is backed by the European Investment Fund, the Irish Strategic Investment ...

By Veronica Corr Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visited Monaghan Town on Friday afternoon to officiate the launch of the Project Children Partnership with Monaghan County Council. Project Children’s complete archive will be housed in Monaghan County Museum in the soon-to-open Peace Campus, the event took place in the Hillgrove Hotel. The Taoiseach had a unique insight into the project, as he visited Washington through a Project Children spin-off internship programme in 2002. Project Children Co-founder Denis Mulcahy, expressed his pride in the Taoiseach during the event. Project Children was founded in ...

COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Monaghan hadn’t won a league or championship game minus both Conor McManus and Darren Hughes since 2013, while you had to go back even further to February 2006 (v Dublin at Parnell Park, as it happens) for the county’s last top-flight victory without their two most-experienced campaigners. In their absence, some new leaders stepped up alongside captain Kieran Duffy, including Mícheál Bannigan, Killian Lavelle, Gary Mohan and Man of the Match Stephen O’Hanlon. Bannigan has already racked up 65 appearances and established himself as vice-captain, while O’Hanlon’s standing ...

A cast-iron plaque commemorating the role that Monaghan man John McKenna played in the foundation of Liverpool FC was unveiled in the past week at the club’s Anfield ground. “Honest John”, as he was known, hailed from Drumcaw in the Donagh area. He is remembered as the Reds’ first manager and a key figure in the club’s establishment. He went on to serve in a number of senior executive positions with the club and also made his mark on the early governance of English football, serving as President of the ...

A former licensed premises in the centre of Emyvale will be transformed into a community facility under an initiative to tackle dereliction and vacancy in rural towns and villages. Cavan/Monaghan TD and Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys announced this week that the purchase of the former McMahon’s Bar and associated living accommodation on Emyvale’s Main Street for use as a multi-purpose community space had been approved for funding under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. It is one of 24 projects nationwide that will benefit from a ...

Students from Largy College in Clones and Ballybay Community College were conferred with Special Awards at the 2024 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Largy College students Sadhbh Bonner and Denisa Horvat won the Irish Science Teachers Association Award in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences for their project How to Improve the Teaching of Astronomy. Ballybay Community College students Chloe Sullivan, Charlotte Smith, Katie Duffy won the Tackle Your Feelings Award for their project “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but my mind can also hurt me”, which ...

The old phrase “money from America” to describe the beneficence of Irish emigrants towards their home place had a modern manifestation at the annual New Year’s Day Run in Emyvale organised by Glaslough Harriers AC. This year’s 10k and 5k walk and run saw a link forged with the Irish Yank Foundation in order to generate funds for Errigal Truagh Special Needs. Our photograph by Rory Geary shows foundation founder and former Truagh and Monaghan footballer Daniel Yankee McKenna presenting a cheque for €20,000 to Special Needs Group representative Bernie ...

MAITIU MONAGHAN The 2023 Northern Standard/Monaghan GAA award winners have been announced, with representatives from 18 different clubs picking up awards in what has been an incredibly successful season for Monaghan GAA. Scotstown GAA dominated the Senior Football Award’s, with Rory Beggan being named Club Senior Footballer of the Year, while Conor McCarthy was awarded the Inter-County Footballer of the Year. Elsewhere, Killanny’s Ronan Grimes was named the Intermediate Footballer of the Year after a great season that seen Killanny claim a shock Intermediate Championship, and Phillip Donnelly was awarded Junior ...

PETER HUGHES Plans for the construction of an additional 50+ social housing units and around 15 affordable purchase houses on the Latlorcan site in Monaghan Town were outlined by Monaghan Co Council to Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD on Thursday last. The Minister walked the site of the proposed development and was briefed on the construction plans during engagements in Co Monaghan which also saw him view works nearing completion on the new An Clós housing development in Ballybay, and officially open Castleblayney’s Coill Darach ...

Forestry authority Coillte have launched an initiative to encourage more winter visitors to Monaghan Town’s Rossmore Forest Park and the Billy Fox Memorial Park at Bawn. Coillte point to a recent survey emphasising the importance of forests to for physical and mental health and wellbeing. They have also highlighted the positive role that forests and the cultivation of trees are making to combatting climate change. A total of 81% of the Irish public believe Ireland needs to grow more trees to help combat climate change, according to a recent Red ...