Articles in the Monaghan Category

Gardai are warning homeowners to be especially vigilant about valuable vehicles parked outside their houses at night, following a spate of “creeper theft” incidents in which high-powered cars and jeeps have been stolen after raiders broke into the owners’ houses to find the keys. It is suspected that one gang is behind the series of robberies, which are possibly being carried out to order. A black Renault Fluence with a 2010 registration was stolen from a house in the Latton area at about 2.30am on Tuesday last, gardai confirmed, ...

Monaghan’s bid to claim this year’s Ulster SFC title has received a blow with the news that renowned attacker Tommy Freeman will not feature in the June 5th provincial championship clash with Tyrone in Healy Park. The mercurial Magheracloone ace confirmed to The Northern Standard that he is on the cusp of visiting the United States “for at least a couple of months”. The NFL Division Two medallist and county SFC medallist got married earlier this year and it is understood that he will be accompanied Stateside by his new wife. It is ...

The roadside birth in Smithboro of a baby girl whose mother was en route to Cavan General Hospital has prompted renewed calls for the restoration of maternity services to Monaghan General Hospital. Marie Fay of River Garden, Drumsheeny, Threemilehouse was being driven to the maternity unit at Cavan Hospital by her brother Eamon on Holy Thursday last when she went into labour. The vehicle pulled in at the side of the road and she gave birth to her daughter, Mary Kate. The incident has been described as ...

Plans for the reinstallation in a new location in Old Cross Square in Monaghan Town of the historic sundial monument were outlined at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council. Informing the members about the ongoing works in Old Cross Square, the Town Engineer (Gareth McMahon) said that the compulsory purchase order required in the area had now been confirmed following an oral hearing. There were legal procedures to be gone through following this but these were on schedule, and the completion date for works in the area ...

A question daubed by an enquiring street artist on the hoarding surrounding the site of the stalled mixed use development in the centre of Monaghan Town – “What shall we do with the hole in the ground?’ – was addressed by the members of Monaghan Town Council on Monday night. Although no reference was made to the graffiti that has recently appeared on the surrounds of the site, the issue of the development’s future was raised by Independent councillor Seamus Treanor. Colr Treanor said that some work seemed ...

Winners of The Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Stages Rally, Tim McNulty and Paul Kiely, centre with Damien Connolly and Robert Barrable, 3rd and Niall Maguire and Enda Sherry, runners-up. Full story and pictures on pages 42 & 43. ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Those attending the launch of Féile Oriel 2011 in the Market House, Monaghan on Tuesday evening were assured that this year’s event would be as memorable as any before, notwithstanding the 11th-hour decision by Monaghan Co Council’s Peace III Partnership Board not to provide the €35,000 in funding that had been applied for. The festival’s principal organiser Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn didn’t mince his words in expressing disappointment at the partnership’s decision, pointing out that some key items on the programme — which had been drawn up in ...

A Sinn Féin motion adopted at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council could see a former Customs premises in the town transformed into an employment creation resource. Sean Conlon won unanimous support from the town authority when he moved that, in an effort to stimulate economic development by way of facilitating job creation initiatives, the Council engage with relevant national and local agencies with a view to establishing an Enterprise Centre on the site of the former Revenue Commissioners building on the Armagh Road. The Council are ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie The queen’s visit to Ireland on May 17th, which coincides with the anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974, has prompted a group representing the victims to call on the British government to release all files it holds relating to the atrocities. Describing the choice of date for Queen Elizabath II’s arrival as an “extraordinary coincidence”, Justice for the Forgotten has urged the British authorities to release any information they hold on the bombings as “a significant gesture of reconciliation” between the two countries. ...

The demand for the restoration of services to Monaghan General Hospital was one of the first issues on which new Health Minister James Reilly was questioned during his first Question time in the Dáil on Tuesday. Sinn Féin Health spokesperson and Cavan-Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin used his ‘priority question’ to the new Minister to call for the restoration of the axed hospital services. The Minister for Health admitted that “a good deal more can be done at Monaghan” and stated that “smaller county hospitals have been under-utilised to date”. However, ...