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“We need broadband now – rural Ireland is dying…Young people can’t come home to study at the weekends because there is no broadband.” The comments of one of the contributors from the floor at Tuesday’s meeting in the Hillgrove Hotel to provide information for the Monaghan business community on rural broadband availability was eloquent of the frustration and impatience evident among the wider audience at the time it is taking to address the county’s broadband deficits. A straw poll taken of those present showed a considerable number of the view that improved ...

The rich and varied life of Glaslough baronet the late Sir Jack Leslie will be recalled at an event in Monaghan Co Museum on Monday, December 5 next from 7.30 pm. The very sad news broke early this year that Sir John Leslie, known as ‘Sir Jack’ had died at Castle Leslie. Sir Jack was many things to many people: aristocrat, war hero, conservationist, historian, even party animal. To those who knew him best, he was a warm, compassionate, generous and truly unique man. He was a very strong supporter of Monaghan ...

By Patsy McArdle The creation of a new all-island industrial promotion agency has been advocated by Fianna Fáil Dáil Deputy for Cavan/Monaghan Brendan Smith. Deputy Smith feels that his constituency in particular would stand to benefit from the bolstering of a cross-Border trade strategy, particularly in the uncertain economic climate arising from the UK’s vote to recant membership of the European Union. The FF TD made his call following his party’s “Brexit assessment summit” in Dundalk last weekend. Deputy Smith said trade missions were key to opening new ...

The people of Monaghan Town and the surrounding areas are invited to come along and be present at a literally brilliant occasion this Sunday, November 20. The spectacular new Monaghan Christmas lighting scheme will be illuminated as the centrepiece of a two-hour programme of quality entertainment scheduled to run from 4-6 pm. Special guest will be leading local celebrity Michael Lawson from Newbliss, winner of the 2016 Voice of Ireland contest. His redoubtable vocal talents will be augmented by musical contributions from soprano Helen Keenan of Tydavnet ...

Michael Fisher PRIVATE THOMAS HUGHES VC PLAQUE UNVEILED   “He was a true hero and a truly remarkable man”. The words of the British Ambassador to Ireland Robin Barnett as he unveiled a plaque paying tribute to Private Thomas Hughes of Corravoo, Castleblayney of the 6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Hughes is one of 27 Irish holders of the Victoria Cross for whom the British government arranged a paving stone to be placed at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. They are being paid for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.   In all, four plaques remembering World War ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE parents and family of the 23-years-old Carrickmacross law student Shane O’Farrell who was killed by a hit and run driver while cycling near his home five years ago were received by an Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D.,, whom they met along with An Tanaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald T.D. in Dublin last Friday in an effort to get some positive action by the State to help bring closure to the horrific circumstances ...

By PATSY McARDLE A CARRICKMACROSS family whose three children have been prevented from accessing local school transport have received “heartless treatment” according to local Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy yesterday when he highlighted the South Monaghan case as just one of the many cases in which, he claimed, government ministers were to blame over local school transport problems. The MEP launched a strong attack on the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Transport over what he described as their “ongoing failures to ...

By PATSY McARDLE MONAGHAN town is to get a whopping €100,000 boost under a €750,000 share-out for some fifteen towns and villages in counties Monaghan and Cavan under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme which was announced on Tuesday by local Dail deputy and Minister for Arts Heritage Regional Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys T.D. The scheme aims to rejuvenate and revitalise rural Ireland and will be used for a wide variety of projects such as developing a ‘wi-fi hub’ in Monaghan ...

It was really frisky of Brian McKenna to resurrect the cry, last heard a half century or so ago, for the removal from the facade of the Courthouse of the Lion & Unicorn (NS, 20 October). Brian is not of course alone in wishing to remove or destroy historical symbols and artefacts. And, as readers will know, he finds himself in illustrious company. These iconoclasts include: the Taliban’s destruction of the Afghanistan Buddha carvings; the razing by IS of the Temple of Baal at Palmyra; the Khmer Rouge’s devastating attack on Cambodia’s ...

People will continue to be able to travel freely between Ireland and the UK post-Brexit, Taoiseach Enda Kenny told a major conference yesterday which discussed the implications for the Border counties and the country as a whole of the UK’s vote to depart the European Union. Mr Kenny said he had agreed with British Prime Minister Theresa May that the “benefits of the Common Travel Area” between both countries were preserved. The Taoiseach committed that he would keep other political parties fully briefed at different stages of the Brexit negotiations. The Taoiseach has ...