Articles in the Monaghan Category

• €9.5 million funding secured for “shared space” facility to house new Museum and Library Peter Hughes The recent series of positive funding announcements for Monaghan Town and its environs continued on Friday last when it was learned that the Monaghan Peace Campus project had been successful in securing funding of €9.5 million under the EU’s PEACE IV programme. The new facility will be constructed on lands at the Plantation Road in the town which were formerly occupied by the local authority machinery yard. The three-storey building will provide a new ...

Peter Hughes A funding announcement on Monday was hailed as possessing significant potential to bring the regeneration of one of the main commercial arteries of Monaghan Town closer to reality. Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy TD granted approval of a Monaghan Co Council application to the Government’s new Urban Regeneration and Development Fund in respect of the Dublin Street Regeneration Plan which was launched in 2017. The Monaghan local authority will share with the Co Councils of Roscommon, Cavan and Mayo a funding “pot” of €1,674,000 ...

• Monaghan forest park gets €421,000 for future developments Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring TD has allocated funding of €421,000 to Rossmore Forest Park under Measure 3 of his Department’s Outdoor Recreation Scheme, it was learned on Tuesday last. The funding will facilitate a programme of major development works at the amenity, where construction of a playground has just commenced and plans are in train for further development of the Giant’s Trail feature. Welcoming the funding, Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather ...

Monaghan Town became Foodie Heaven last weekend as the annual Taste of Monaghan festival exerted a magnetic attraction on the public. Thousands of gourmands and gastro buffs filed through the commodious tented enclave in the town centre from Friday through to Sunday to sample the delights of a dizzying array of food retailers and producers from across the county and beyond, and watched spellbound as a gallery of local and TV celebrity chefs worked their culinary magic. Among the attendees was Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys TD ...

Charities and good causes in the Monaghan area will receive €50,000 as a result of the recent Country Music Festival in the county capital town, it was revealed on Friday last. The impressive sum – which brings the total charitable benefit generated by the festival since its inception to over €0.25 million – was announced at a function held in the Westenra Arms Hotel as a token of appreciation to the more than 120 voluntary stewards who assisted in the smooth running of the 2018 event, which took place from ...

The fourth #MyMonaghan video is being released today. Each video in the series features local people, talking about their passions and telling their stories. In this video, Paul Bond and Benny Magennis shed some light on ‘Roddy Den Drum’ who is making a big impact in Rossmore Forest Park. And it appears that he won’t be the only giant in the park for very long! Plans are afoot for more drumlin giants throughout the park so keep your eyes peeled when you’re walking the dog…….. To hear more about Roddy ...

Michael McDonnell A MONAGHAN TOWN family have expressed distress and disappointment following an unprovoked attack on their mother’s grave at Latlurcan Cemetery on Wednesday of last week. The incident at the final resting place of Bridget Cooney of Mullaghmatt occurred at some time between about 1.45pm and 4pm on that afternoon, and included the theft of five of the seven solar lights her family members had lovingly placed around the grave. Bridget’s daughter Cheryl Cawley told the Northern Standard that all members of the family were extremely upset about what ...

Scheme had to date resulted in the retention of an estimated €2.1 million in spending in the local economy, the members of the Monaghan Municipal District were informed at their meeting last Monday. Monaghan Town Centre Retail Co-ordinator Trevor Connolly stated that the scheme, introduced by the Monaghan Town Team as a “shop local” initiative, had amassed total sales of €855,000 to date, which, when the “multiplier effect” was applied, translated into approximately….

This Sunday’s official switch-on of the Christmas lights in Monaghan Town, and the introduction of free afternoon car-parking in the county town from December 10 until January 2, were hailed as important boosts to the crucial festive trading period by the members of the Monaghan Municipal District this week. Speaking at Monday’s meeting of the local government body, Cathaoirleach Paudge Connolly (Independent) complimented the members of the Monaghan Christmas Lights Committee for the wonderful amount of work they had put into this year ’s switch-on event on Sunday November 26 ...

Going “up the courthouse steps” is a phrase with ominous connotations in Monaghan Town as it usually denotes a humbling appearance before the judiciary who preside in the imposing edifice that dominates Church Square. But Canadian Ambassador to Ireland Kevin Vickers put a much more pleasurable connotation on the journey during Saturday’s Canada Day in Monaghan celebrations. The envoy extemporised his own “Courthouse stepdance” as he introduced a special…