Articles in the Monaghan Category

Incidents of anti-social behaviour occurring in and around the grounds of the St Davnet’s campus in Monaghan Town were condemned at the November meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. Sinn Féin councillor Sean Conlon said that at a previous meeting he had asked that correspondence be sent to the HSE’s Area Manager for Cavan Monaghan Leo Kinsella in relation to an access point that had been closed off at the St Davnet’s campus, located at the canal bridge near the old farmyard. Asking that correspondence be reissued in this regard, Colr Conlon ...

MINISTERS HUMPHREYS AND NASH PRAISE COMPANY’S COMMITMENT TO LOCAL AREA By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THE official opening last Friday of Glanbia’s new €15 million UHT (ultra-heat-treated) milk plant at Lough Egish, with the creation of 40 new jobs, has been welcomed not only as a good news story on the employment front, but also as providing a major boost for local suppliers in the dairy farming sector. With a processing capacity for up to 100 million litres of milk per annum, the new ultra-modern processing facility will enable Glanbia Consumer Foods Ireland to produce ...

History was made in Co Monaghan this week as The Hillgrove Hotel hosted the county’s first same sex marriage. Officiant Eileen Morris conducted the marriage of Tony Day from Lisburn and Darren Baird from Belfast on Tuesday morning. Friends of the couple. Owner of The Hillgrove Hotel Audri Herron and Stephen Treanor from Monaghan, acted as witnesses. Tony and Darren celebrated their wedding by holding a reception for 200 family and friends at The Hillgrove Hotel last Saturday, then stayed on in Monaghan to become one of the first couples to avail ...

They didn’t let a bit of rain dampen their spirits at the recent Open Day of Made in Monaghan, held last Saturday in The Diamond. In true Monaghan style, people came out in great numbers to support this initiative, which is co-ordinated by Monaghan LEO and Monaghan County Council. A growing community of 17 local and hugely talented Artisan Food and Craft producers have taken up residency in this Pop Up venture, that complements the fine, existing retail offering of Monaghan town. They are overwhelmed by the support given to this project ...

A recent cheque presentation event held in Monaghan Town’s Westenra Hotel demonstrated the immense value delivered by the county capital’s annual Country Music Festival to both local charitable causes and community enrichment. The €40,000 raised by this year’s event for good causes in the Monaghan locality brings to €106,000 the charitable bounty reaped from the festival since its inception three years ago. “Community support is vital to the success of the festival,” reflected Julie Brannigan of the organising committee. “Unlike our first two years, the 2015 event encountered some dreadful weather conditions but ...

Local man Seamus McMahon organised an incredible music event in the Four Seasons Hotel in Monaghan on October 29th in aid of the North East Cancer Research and Education Trust who are fundraising to purchase a €160,000 gene sequencing cancer machine. The support of the people in the northeast was truly amazing, the night was a collective mix of comedy and song, and a lot of fun was had by all. The focus of the charity NECRET is to provide funding for activities that will improve the treatment and outcomes of people ...

AN APPLICATION by well-known hotelier and Gaelic football personality Seamus McEnaney to transfer a publican’s licence to a premises in Monaghan town was objected to by one of the former managers of the premises in question when the matter came before Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court. The application by Mr Seamus McEnaney — who was described as a nominee of Carrickmacross-based company Wardglade Ltd — for the ad-interim transfer of a full publican’s licence had been granted at the court on 20th July last in respect of the premises known ...

By Michael McDonnell A 55-YEAR-OLD woman killed in a two-vehicle crash on the Monaghan–Clones road at 7.50am yesterday morning has been named as Maria Fatima Soares, a Portuguese lady who was living in Roslea, Co Fermanagh. The fatal accident was one of four incidents that took place in much the same area along the N54 in just over 26 hours, including one that occurred only 15 minutes later, in which a woman in her 20s was injured when the car she was driving collided with a lorry. The lady involved in the fatal ...

The draw for the 2016 Ulster Senior Football Championship took place on RTE on Thursday evening last and once again it threw up some intriguing pairings that should again make it the most interesting and most the competitive of all the 4 provincial competitions. The only certainty following the draw is that Monaghan and Donegal cannot contest a fourth Ulster championship final in a row as they are in the same side of the draw and a semi-final meeting looks the most likely outcome of those early rounds. Reigning champions Monaghan came ...

Scotstown are county champions for the second time in three years after a strong start led them to victory over Monaghan Harps at St Tiarnach’s Park, Clones, last Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan Harps struck first in the Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship Final through the impressive Shane Smyth, but by the end of the first quarter, Scotstown had taken charge with two goals. The first was an opportunistic finish by Orin Heaphey, who justified his starting position by scoring 1-2, after a Darren Hughes pass spilled loose, before Man ...