Articles in the Monaghan Category

Scotstown 2-12 Monaghan Harps 0-09 By JOHN GRAHAM THERE was to be no fairytale ending to Monaghan Harps efforts to bridge the 92 years gap since they last won the Monaghan senior football championship as a more composed and experienced Scotstown regained the Monaghan senior football championship title that they last held in 2013. Ultimately Scotstown possessed too much power and versatility and were able to contain the Harps threat although had they capitalised on a few good chances, one or two in particular for goals at vital times, the course of this game ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie MONDAY NIGHT LAST will be remembered as a major milestone in the career-path of Monaghan Town native and acclaimed chef Peter McKenna, after the restaurant he jointly owns and runs in Glasgow was named AA Restaurant of the Year for Scotland 2015–2016. Peter and his family — including his wife Chala and parents Susan and Seamus, the well-known blues music aficionado — were enjoying what they reckoned would be a great night out at the AA Hospitality Awards in the plush Grosvenor House Hotel, London. But the last thing ...

PETER HUGHES A number of potential strategies to boost trade in Monaghan Town and promote its retail attractions over a wider catchment area were unveiled at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District by the new town centre co-ordinator for the county capital, Trevor Connolly. Mr Connolly said plans were in train to put together a ‘town team’ of relevant stakeholders, one of whose objectives would be the formulation of a strategy to achieve “purple flag” status for Monaghan Town, an accreditation that would open up the potentially lucrative market to the ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie IN AN ERA of growing interest in creative culinary delights, food lovers in Monaghan town, county and beyond are being promised a mouth-watering menu of all things related to cookery, fine cuisine and fresh country foods over the first weekend in October when the sixth annual ‘Taste of Monaghan’ festival takes place in the county town. A host of celeb chefs and well-known gourmet personalities will be on hand to thrill the punters with their cookery demos in the Festival Marquee in the Upper Courthouse Carpark over the Friday, ...

The Knockatallon Ramblers will hold a walk on Sunday 13th September in aid of local cancer charities and in memory of club member Stephen Crotty who past away last year. The walk on the day will be one of Stephen’s favourites in Rossmore park. The 10k ramble is suitable for families and all abilities. Registration is at 1.30pm at Francie Mc Quaid Tyres (next to Monaghan United car park) and donations will be accepted for local cancer charities. Afterwards there will be refreshments and a small presentation to the Crotty family ...

By Cianna McNally A Monaghan Town woman is currently fundraising ahead of a charitable trip to Mexico to work with street children and orphans. Mary White, who hails from Cortolvin View, will travel to Playa Del Carmen on 2nd October to work with Global Vision International / Save The Children. Mary, who will stay in the country for a month, will work in a centre that provides safe daycare for street children and orphans. Speaking to The Northern Standard, Mary, who has three children and two grandchildren, told how she spotted a GVI advertisement on social media last ...

Established in 1901, one hundred and fourteen years ago, the name Town of Monaghan Co-op will soon disappear from our daily lives. Town of Monaghan is one of the longest established co-ops in the country. Over the years it established a name nationwide for quality dairy products such as Champion Butter and Champion Milk as well as Mona and Champion yogurt. One of the largest employers in Monaghan, the Co-op took pride in supporting local events and charities. With up to three hundred farms supplying Town of Monaghan Co-op and virtually every ...

Mickey McDonnell THE “20th Edition” of Monaghan’s Harvest Time Blues festival was another runaway success, with good crowds turning up to support the events at all levels in what has a become a firmly-embedded annual event that Monaghan can rightly be proud of promoting and sustaining over the years. The sheer class and quality of the artists who entertained the punters was again evident from the word go, and even the weather refrained from raining on the parade as locals and visitors alike were treated to one great full-house show after another ...

PETER HUGHES A major step in initiatives to encourage concerted promotional efforts among the business community of Monaghan Town took place in the Westenra Hotel last Thursday evening with the launch of the new website created by the Monaghan Has It group. The website already boasts almost 160 local business concerns among its pages and an appeal was made on the night to all those engaged in trade and commerce in Monaghan to participate in the initiative and to broaden awareness of the website among their customers. The potential of social media to ...