Articles in the Monaghan Category

Recent findings by the World Health Organisation indicating a possible cancer risk from mobile phone use were cited by Fine Gael councillor Owen Bannigan at Tuesday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council when he called for reassurances to be given to the public about the health implications of the north-south electricity interconnector project being promoted by EirGrid. Colr Bannigan expressed the view that the electro-magnetic fields produced by high-voltage power lines were similar to those associated with mobile phone masts and proposed that the Council write to the Taoiseach and ...

A wheelchair-bound 28-year-old Co Galway man who was caught driving while disqualified following a road accident in the Monaghan area last year was given concurrent four-month prison sentences and put off the road for 10 years when he appeared at Monaghan District Court on Monday last. Dean Loughrey (28) of Kilmeen, Loughrey, Co Galway pleaded guilty to a number of charges including driving while disqualified, driving without a licence, having no insurance and failing to produce insurance at Tullyhirm Monaghan on 27th May 2010. Superintendent Michael Clancy said ...

The well-known RTE broadcaster Sean Rocks, a native of Monaghan Town, was accorded the prestigious honour of being Master of Ceremonies for the State Banquet in Dublin Castle held last Tuesday night as part of the visit of British Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland. Mr Rocks, who hosts the Arena arts programme on RTE radio one, was asked by Áras an Uachtaráin to perform the formal introductions for the State occasion. Mr Rocks described the banquet as “an extraordinary night to be part of”, and said that the ...

After a successful four-day visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, and the focus now on our economic challenges that lie ahead, Border People in association with the IBEC CBI Joint Business Council are pleased to announce a free conference for businesses in the North and the South to increase trade on the island of Ireland. Entitled ‘Developing Cross-Border Business,’ the conference is supported by Morgan McManus Solicitors based in County Monaghan and will take place on June 15, 2011, from 9am – 2pm at the Four Seasons Hotel ...

Monaghan Co Council has received an additional allocation of €2,023,418 from the Dept of Transport for their roads restoration and improvement programme. Details of the allocation, part of a €60 million roads programme introduced under the Government’s jobs initiative, were outlined at a special meeting of the Council on Monday. But tensions arose among representatives from different electoral areas as to the manner of the funding’s expenditure. The Dept had forwarded a list of regional and local road programmes on which the allocation was to be spent, ...

The British Government does not intend to release any further files on the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, the Dáil was told on Tuesday. Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that the information provided by the British Government on the bombings thus far was all the relevant information they intended to supply. The Justice for the Forgotten campaign group had used the occasion of the recent visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland to make a renewed call for information on the loyalist attacks of May 17 1974 in ...

Coinciding with the visit to Dublin of the English Queen, over 70 Republicans gathered at the Diamond, Monaghan on Tuesday evening in a dignified vigil marking the 37th anniversary of the bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974. Among those in attendance were the Mayor of County Monaghan, Jackie Crowe, and several Sinn Féin elected representatives. 34 members of the demonstration held black flags symbolising the thirty-four people (including an unborn child) who were killed when loyalist bombs detonated in Monaghan and Dublin. Others held placards highlighting the fact ...

Members and officials of Monaghan Town Council gathered in Church Square on Tuesday morning last to lay a wreath at the memorial dedicated to victims of the 1974 Monaghan Bombing. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has confirmed that he will meet local delegations to discuss future service provision at Monaghan General Hospital, Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan Heather Humphreys told The Northern Standard yesterday. Deputy Humphreys said that the meeting would take place within the next month, but the exact date – and whether the meeting would be held in Dublin or coincide with a visit by the Minister to the Monaghan Hospital site – remained to be finalised. She welcomed the news as the culmination of ...

The reunion of past pupils of the Christian Brothers School, Monaghan took place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday last. The Brothers arrived in Monaghan in July 1867 and provided an unbroken period of education in the town for 117 years before departing from St Mary’s Hill on the Clones Road in 1984. The weekend began in the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday evening with an exhibition of old photographs and other memorabilia which captured the history and the names and faces of earlier generations who attended the ...