Articles in the Monaghan Category

PETER HUGHES Plans for an ambitious new industrial park development along the N2 in Monaghan Town, on what is traditionally known as the “O’Neill’s Farm” lands, were unveiled at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. The 36-acre Annahagh site will house a projected eight industrial units but their number and size can be adjusted to suit the demands of the market, Council members were informed in a briefing by Director of Planning Services Cathal Flynn. Mr Flynn told the meeting that the Council’s intention was to get the approval of ...

Massive crowds are expected to assemble in the county capital this weekend for the much anticipated return of the Monaghan Country Music Festival. The festival, which has been in abeyance for a number of years, will run from tonight Thursday, until Sunday, with headline acts performing on the specially erected stage at The Diamond and an exciting satellite programme of entertainment taking place at other locations in the central town area. The full festival programme is outlined in an article inside this week’s edition. Monaghan Municipal District has pointed out ...

Monaghan is the second best town in the country when it comes to keeping its streets free of litter, according to the latest survey by IBAL or Irish Businesses Against Litter. IBAL regularly ranks 40 Irish towns and cities on cleanliness criteria and their first survey of 2024 shows Monaghan in second place overall. “An excellent result for Monaghan, one of its best ever over many years of inclusion in the IBAL Anti-Litter League,” said the An Taisce assessment. “Nine out of the ten sites surveyed got the top litter ...

PETER HUGHES Flower petals, poetry and prayer, quietude and plaintive music and song interwove with words to fashion a poignant tribute to those who died and those who suffered, those still suffering trauma and lack of closure, from the bombing of Monaghan Town in 1974. At the precise moment 50 years before when the detonation of a car bomb stopped the heartbeat of the town, Church Square fell silent at 6.58 pm on Friday evening last to the more gentle sound of church bells. Silence descended too after President Michael ...

PETER HUGHES With fanfare and a panoramic reflection on the past and future of the country’s journey towards meaningful reconciliation between its cultural and religious traditions, the new Peace Campus in Monaghan Town opened its doors last Friday. The €27.1 million structure that has risen four storeys to dominate the skyline on the town’s Plantation Road next to Monaghan Garda Station welcomed more than 200 guests to celebrate the realisation of a vision first conceived in 2016. The facility will house the new Monaghan Branch Library and Monaghan Co Museum. ...

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 ...

A podcast series is being produced as part of a Community Link Project to mark this year’s 50th anniversary of the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Town. People in the Monaghan community are being asked to share their stories, experiences and memories of the bombing on May 17 1974 and have them recorded to create an archive. There is an open call to come and record your story at the Market House in Monaghan Town on Friday February 2 from 10 am-2 pm. Said the organisers: “The fabric of Monaghan ...

Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Matt Carthy has been informed that there are no proposals to provide CT and MRI scanning services at Monaghan Hospital. Deputy Carthy told the Northern Standard that, having raised the matter with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly TD, he this week received written confirmation from the RCSI Hospital Group stating that, “There are currently no plans to increase the number of MRI or CT scanners in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital.” “Currently there are two CT scanners and one MRI scanner at Cavan Hospital but neither service ...

Lakeland Dairies announced yesterday (Wednesday) that it plans to close three of its facilities over the next 16 months in order to cut overhead expenses, including its operation in Monaghan and its milk drying facilities at Lough Egish. There was speculation following the shock statement that as many as 78 jobs across the co-operative could be impacted. Lakeland’s Banbridge site in Co Down will also close. Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys TD yesterday said that supports would be put in place for the workers impacted by the decision, which ...

The long-a waited CCTV crime prevention scheme for Monaghan Town is facing a funding shortfall. The project, which recently secured formal final appro val after a pr otracte d process, will cost in the region of €250,000 to implement in full. Monaghan M un ic ipal Dis tric t has €120 ,000 in its coffer s for the scheme, which will see 43 cameras installed at 17 locations in the town area. But hope was expressed at the Municipal District’s meeting on Monday that work on implementing the scheme could ...