Articles in the Monaghan Category

The members of Monaghan Co Council on Tuesday gave their full backing to calls on Minister for Health Dr James Reilly to intervene to reverse the decision to close the kitchen facilities at Monaghan General Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital in Castleblayney. Correspondence on the issue from Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan stated that his enquiries had ascertained that the decision to amalgamate the kitchen services at the two hospitals with St Davnet’s Hospital in Monaghan Town was “a local initiative” taken by staff and area management, ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Monaghan town will be in festive mode again this bank holiday weekend when recessions, referendums and all such mundane concerns will quite rightly be set aside as Féile Oriel’s full programme of trad music, song and entertainment gets underway. Over 22 traditional sessions featuring top musicians and singers from a wide area will be enjoyed by the punters in Andy’s, Master Deery’s, McKenna’s, McManus’s, Sherry’s, The Shamrock, The Squealing Pig, Terry’s and the Westenra, while a full array of local performers on the ‘Gig Rig’ at The ...

A novel and environmentally friendly possible use for the site of the stalled mixed-use development project in the heart of Monaghan Town – dubbed “the hole in the ground” locally – was ‘floated’ at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council. Contained in correspondence before the members was a letter on behalf of the Killygoan Tidy Towns Committee which requested the Council to “earnestly consider” allowing the site to become a lake or water storage area. Advocating such a bio-diversity project in the location, the correspondence stated: “If ...

Staff at video games retailer GAME in Monaghan Shopping Centre have expressed thanks for the “surprising but very welcome” level of support they received during their three-week sit-in at the store which ended last Friday, 13th April.  In a statement posted on the ‘GAME Ireland fight for your rights’ Facebook page for staff across Ireland, protestors extended thanks to local T.Ds, representatives and shop owners for their support. Full-time staff will receive their due wages while part-time staff will be paid two of their three weeks wages owed. However, they ...

Well-known fund-raiser Jimmy Mee is setting out tomorrow, Friday, April 20 on perhaps his most demanding charitable endeavour to date – a cycle from Dublin to Poland to garner financial support for the Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Jimmy is hoping for a high level of public support for his arduous undertaking – the latest in a serious of physically demanding charity challenges he has taken on and completed to benefit a range of deserving causes in an odyssey that in recent years has taken him literally across the globe. ...

Traffic dangers posed by the backlog and parking of vehicles on the roadways leading to Rossmore Park in Monaghan Town – arising from a new barrier and toll system introduced there by Coillte – were highlighted at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council by Fine Gael representative David Maxwell. Colr Maxwell was moving a notice of urgent business put forward by FG asking the Co Council to call on Coillte to re-examine its policy for access to Rossmore Forest Park in Monaghan. Colr Maxwell said that Coillte had ...

An 11% increase in the number of people using Monaghan General Hospital’s day care services was highlighted at the March meeting of Monaghan Co Council by Fine Gael’s David Maxwell. Colr Maxwell called on the public to be aware of the services that were still being provided at the hospital and to make use of them. The meeting agreed to again call on FG TDs for Cavan/Monaghan Sean Conlan and Heather Humphreys to make representations to Minister for Health Dr James Reilly to secure a meeting for a ...

Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee are providing an opportunity for all stakeholders in the county to attend a briefing in the Garage Theatre on Tuesday evening next – March 20 – to discuss the future landscape of higher education in Ireland and to consider how the new Monaghan Education Campus being developed at present at Knockaconny can form collaborative links to contribute to future local development needs in business and community sectors. The stakeholder briefing will feature presentations from the President of Dundalk Institute of Technology, Mr Denis Cummins, ...

The Northern Standard has learned that Monaghan Shopping Centre, an asset owned by Newbay Properties partnership, went into receivership on Friday, February 17th, a KPMG spokesperson confirmed. KPMG were appointed as receiver to the property, which continues to run as a going concern. Back in March 2011, Newbay enlisted the services of TDK Commercial Property Consultants as managing agents to Monaghan Shopping Centre, as is still the case. Despite the receivership, it is business as usual, as KPMG have no plans to sell the shopping centre. There will be no job losses, as the ...