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The Monaghan Municipal District is to seek the views of the local public on the way they would like to see the popular Rossmore Forest Park amenity in Monaghan Town developed in the future. There is now an enhanced local authority role in the running of the park following the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Coillte. The Municipal District have a substantial budget to carry out improvements at the amenity, funding from their own coffers recently augmented by grant assistance announced by Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht ...

One hundred years ago in September 1916 a former Editor of The Northern Standard Lt TJ Kennedy was killed during the Battle of the Somme in the Great War.  His unit of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was part of the 16th Irish Division involved in the capture of two French villages from the Germans. Read the full story of the journalist who went to war on page 14.

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie BAILIEBOROUGH-based former Cavan county councillor Seán McKiernan was unanimously elected as the new chairperson of the Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB), at a meeting held in Monaghan’s Beech Hill College yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. Mr McKiernan, who is a Disability Federation of Ireland and AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access & Disability) nominee to the ETB was wished well in his role over the next year by all the board members present, and he, in turn, gave thanks to everyone for their support, including his proposer ...

By PATSY McARDLE THERE WAS a further welcome major financial boost this week for the development of the already popular Ulster Canal “greenway” in Monaghan town. The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, confirmed on Tuesday she had received confirmation from Waterways Ireland that more than €4 million in funding is being provided for the greenway. She said the money is being made available through the INTERREG Programme. Minister Humphreys said: “This is fantastic news for the entire Ulster Canal project. Last year, ...

“This eyesore has been the bane of Carrickmacross town for a number of years now and it either needs to be finished or demolished.” These were the strong words of Councillor Colm Carthy at the site of the unfinished development on the Old Ardee Road in Carrickmacross recently. He stated: “I am of the view that this structure has been left to rot and I see no reason to allow that to continue. Carrickmacross prides itself on its tidiness and there is no excuse to let this site get further ...

• Mickey McDonnell MONAGHAN was pulsating with 12-bar boogie throughout the weekend as the Harvest Time Blues festival came of age with its 21st outing, and top-drawer acts from either side of the Atlantic once again served up a feast of head-boppin’ riffs and rhythyms in venues across the town. Above we see our snapper Rory Geary’s take on Rick Vito & The Lucky Devils in action on the Marquee stage on Saturday night, as the Pennsylvania-based R&B specialist who’s mixed it with everyone from Fleetwood Mac ...

LEADER funding “a good news story” for Co Monaghan By Cianna McNally Monaghan LEADER is open for business. That is the message that went out from the launch of the LEADER Rural Development Programme 2014 – 2020 which will see almost €7.6 million in funding coming to Co Monaghan over the next four years. The programme, which aims to promote social inclusion, poverty reduction and economic development, is being delivered by the Local Community Development Committee with the support of Monaghan Integrated Development and Monaghan Co Council. It was launched ...

Blues legend Leo Bud Welch strikes a resonant chord upon his arrival in Monaghan Town yesterday, Wednesday evening to prepare for his performances in this weekend’s Harvest Time Blues Festival. Welch, proclaimed as the last of the authentic Mississippi Delta bluesman following the death of BB King in 2015, is partnering local drummer Gavin Taylor for gigs in McKenna’s and Terry’s Bar as well as his marquee performance. He is also due to make a guest appearance at The Shamrock Bar’s Blues Jam. Welch’s appearance in ...

The deaths of a father, mother and three children in an apparent murder/suicide incident in Co Cavan at the weekend evoked a minute’s silence and a brief adjournment of business at Tuesday’s meeting of the Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board. Gardaí found the bodies of Alan Hawe, his wife Clodagh and their sons Liam, Niall and Ryan at their home at Oakdene, Barconey, Ballyjamesduff on Monday. At the outset of the business of Tuesday’s ETB meeting at the Garage Theatre in Monaghan Town, Chairperson Cathy Bennett proposed a five-minute adjournment ...