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Gardaí, medical profession voice deep concern at strategic plan launch By Cianna McNally Authoritative voices from the policing and medical professions have presented a stark picture of the menace that alcohol and drugs, in particular synthetic cannabinoids, are posing to the health and wellbeing of young people in Co Monaghan.   Garda Superintendent Noel Cunningham and Dr Ashraf Butt, Emergency Department consultant at Cavan General Hospital, were speaking at Friday’s launch in Castleblayney of the Monaghan Drugs and Alcohol Forum strategic plan 2016-2021.  (See full report and photos from the launch on page ...

A significant accolade came the way of long-established Monaghan printing firm R & S Printers Limited at the 2016 GAA MacNamee Awards presentation in Croke Park last Friday evening. The R & S Printers-produced official Co Monaghan GAA Yearbook took the award for Best GAA Publication, which was presented on the night by Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Aogán Ó Fearghail. A limited number of editions of the Yearbook are currently available from Eason at Church Square in Monaghan Town. Our picture, from Cody Glenn/Sportsile, shows from left: Uachtarán Ó Fearghail; Yearbook editor Colm ...

“One of the best @irishrugby open training sessions I’ve been lucky enough to play a part in. Cracking atmosphere and turnout! Credit to everyone involved!!!” This was the Instagram post that Ireland No 8 Jamie Heaslip posted last weekend in response to his attendance at the Ireland rugby squad training camp at Monaghan Rugby Club last Friday, February 17. This was only one of many unreservedly positive reactions to the visit of the squad to Monaghan as part of their preparations for Saturday’s Six Nations international against France at the Aviva ...

Concerns that preparations for the introduction of a “hard Border” between the Republic and Northern Ireland were already in train were voiced at the latest white line protest organised by the Border Communities Against Brexit campaign group on Saturday morning last. The Border crossing between Monaghan and Tyrone at Moybridge was the location for the local element of the protest, the main focus of which was centred on the M1 motorway at Carrickarnon between Dundalk and Newry and incorporated a “go slow” on the main road route. Local Border Communities Against Brexit ...

But Minister Humphreys absent and criticises Fianna Fáil for ‘grandstanding’ These are tense times in the Dáil. On Tuesday evening deputies were dealing with “statements of clarification on statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers” over the Garda Maurice McCabe case. Minister Heather Humphreys was present in the Dáil earlier when the Taoiseach answered questions in relation to Maurice McCabe during Leaders’ Questions. But by 9pm when the order of business moved on to a private members motion put forward by Fianna Fáil on the North/South interconnector, the Fine Gael Deputy for ...

A 21-year-old woman who was arrested by Gardaí at Dublin Airport after her return from the United States was remanded in custody at a sitting of the District Court in Carrickmacross yesterday (Wednesday) on a charge of alleged dangerous driving, causing the death of a man in a traffic accident near the Border nearly five years ago. Coleen McCann, with an address at Drumacon, Castleblayney, was refused bail by Judge Denis McLoughlin after a Detective-Garda told the court he believed she would be a “flight risk”. Detective-Garda John Ogle, Carrickmacross, said ...

Last year of leukaemia treatment for brave little ‘Blayney boy By Cianna McNally A Monaghan child who has been affectionately dubbed Ireland’s youngest garda is off to New York next month to march in the city’s St Patrick’s Day parade. Four-year-old Ceejay McArdle, who is son of Susan Brown and Marcus McArdle from Castleblayney, is currently in his last year of treatment for leukaemia. Heartwarmingly, he has been invited to New York by the NYPD Emerald Society to march with gardaí in the parade and will spend five days in the ...

Michael Fisher The latest fatality on the N2 main Dublin to Derry road outside Monaghan town on Tuesday was compounded by a delay in obtaining an ambulance to bring two seriously injured people to hospital. The incident occurred between Monaghan and Emyvale at 12.20pm at Tirnaneill Cross. Three cars were involved. The driver of the first car who was in his 30s was fatally injured. Gardaí say the two female occupants of the second vehicle were seriously injured and were taken to Cavan General Hospital. The male occupant of ...

A former Fine Gael TD was fined €750, and allowed six months to pay, at a special sitting of the District Court in Monaghan on Tuesday last when he was convicted for an assault at his family-owned licensed premises in Ballybay last year. Sean Conlan, 42, of Main Street, Ballybay, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and causing harm to Enda Duffy of Annahia, Ballybay, at the premises on August 23. He also faced a charge for the alleged use of a broken pint glass during the incident in which it ...

Michael Fisher Anti-pylon groups from Monaghan and Meath explained their continuing concerns about the proposed EirGrid North/South interconnector to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten T.D. at a meeting in the Dáil yesterday morning (Wednesday). But after a two hour engagement there was disappointment the Minister was unable to give them a favourable response about putting the line underground.   Minister Naughten ruled out another review of the proposed infrastructure and told them that EirGrid had received planning permission for the line, according to Nigel Hillis of the ...