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• St Davnet’s building is new location for long-awaited project Plans first announced in 2013 to make the Monaghan Hospital campus the location for a new North Monaghan Primary Care Centre have now been abandoned, it was confirmed on Monday. A building in the grounds of St Davnet’s Hospital in Monaghan Town which formerly housed the Blackwater facility for older people with psychiatric illness will instead be used for the project, which is not now expected to be delivered until 2020. The members of Monaghan Co Council reacted with shock and disappointment when ...

A call was made at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council for measures to be taken to reduce the recurrence of serious road traffic accidents on a stretch of the N2 in the county. It was proposed by Sinn Féin councillor Noel Keelan that the Council note the ongoing safety issues on the N2, in particular on the stretch of road from Aclint Bridge to Castleblayney, and call on Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the Government to consider the redesign of the road or its alteration to dual carriageway status. “The accident statistics ...

Sinn Féin local public representative Cathy Bennett has expressed appreciation of an investigation carried out by Monaghan Co Council into the hardness of the domestic water supply for consumers in the Scotstown and Ballinode areas of Co Monaghan. A report on the situation, which was presented to the Co Council members at their January meeting on Monday, put forward four possible options for addressing the situation. It was stated that any works in this regard would have to be funded and carried out by the Irish Water utility and the ...

Legal Challenge Likely Over Pylons Plan: Campaigners Say Views of Local People Were Totally Ignored Michael Fisher The mood on the ground in south Monaghan is angry following the controversial decision to give EirGrid approval for a high voltage overhead line with pylons stretching from Meath to Tyrone. The long-awaited Bord Pleanála Inspector’s report (see p.22) was signed off by the Board a week before Christmas. It was then issued on the Board’s website as expected on Wednesday 21st December.   Now that the two anti-pylon groups have had time over the New ...

By Patsy McArdle SMALL firms throughout Co. Monaghan, and elsewhere in the country, are very cautious as they enter 2017, according to a report presented by the Small Firms’ Association (SFA) earlier this week. It stated that domestic economic growth offers the biggest opportunities while wage inflation and Brexit are the most serious risks . It predicts however that almost two-thirds of small firms will recruit in 2017. According to the report some half of owner-managers feel that the business environment is improving, down from 77% one year ...

Jonathan McKay, left, from Drum, Co Monaghan, was announced recently as the national winner of the 2017 IrelandSkills Award in the Polymechanics Automation category. He is pictured displaying the accolades he received with Maurice Moffett, Maurice Moffett Engineering, where Jonathan is currently completing his apprenticeship. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

Santa Claus rings out the festive chimes when paying an early seasonal visit to Glaslough during the Winter’s Tale Christmas carol service in St Salvator’s Church on Tuesday evening. See story and more pictures on page 5. © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

A contract had now been awarded by Irish Water for the carrying out of major rehabilitation works to the water mains in Monaghan Town, Monaghan Co Council’s Head of Finance John Murray told Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. Mr Murray said the works were likely to last for 12 months. Municipal District Co-ordinator Donal McElwain said this was a project that had been on the cards for a number of years. Irish Water and the local authority’s own water section would be upgrading the mains and replacing some sections ...

Michael Fisher The long-awaited decision was announced on Wednesday by An Bord Pleanála on whether EirGrid will be allowed to proceed with its plans for the North/South electricity interconnector. The Board signed off on its recommendation on Monday. Details are now being circulated to the interested parties, including those who took part in a twelve weeks oral hearing in Carrickmacross that began in March and ended in May.   Landowners in South Monaghan whose farms and property are along the route of the proposed EirGrid North/South electricity interconnector say it would ruin their ...

THREE PEOPLE FROM LOCAL AREA ARRESTED TWO men and a woman were arrested following a massive €2.8 million seizure of cannabis in Cootehill on Friday night last that resulted from a joint operation run by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Revenue’s Customs Service. It is understood that the 143 kilos of the illicit substance was intercepted when a vehicle was stopped at the New Line-Church Street area of the town, and that a 36-year-old man and 50-year-old woman were subsequently arrested and detained at Ballyconnell Garda ...