Articles in the Monaghan Category

The Rotary Club of Monaghan held their Annual President’s Ball in the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday April 8th. Monaghan President, Sinead Corrigan, celebrated this years Rotary event with family, friends and fellow Rotarians from the clubs of Omagh, Navan, Enniskillen, Lisburn, Coleraine, Bangor and North Down. The Rotary District Governor of Ireland, Wes Armstrong, was also present. The function was also truly honoured to have His Excellency, Mr Emil Yalnasov, the Bulgarian Ambassador to Ireland and his wife Sylvia amongst the guests. The Master of Ceremonies, Peter O’Reilly, ...

This coming Sunday, 10th April 2011, will mark Bishop Michael Jackson’s final day as the Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher. Having served as bishop of the diocese since 2002, Bishop Jackson’s nine years in the Diocese of Clogher, which is his home diocese, will conclude with a special Farewell Service of Evening Prayer this Sunday in The Cathedral Church of St. Macartin, Enniskillen, commencing at 7.00pm, after which refreshments will be served in St. Macartin’s Cathedral Hall. Parishioners from across the diocese have been invited through their ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie Monaghan’s Féile Oriel festival organisers confirmed to the Northern Standard yesterday that this year’s event will be going ahead as planned on the May Bank Holiday weekend — despite last week’s setback when the Co Council’s Peace III Partnership Board decided it was not in a position to provide funding. As reported last week, it is understood the Partnership Board was unhappy with certain aspects of the €35,000 funding application, and had deemed the festival to have narrowly failed to meet certain criteria. But organisers Tiarnán ...

Members of Monaghan Co Council united on Monday in outright condemnation of the murder of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh, Co Tyrone on Saturday last. All present at Monday’s monthly meeting of the Council observed a minute’s silence as a mark of respect to the deceased, and a vote of sympathy was passed with the late Mr Kerr’s mother Nuala and family. It was agreed that a representative of the Council would attend yesterday, Wednesday’s Requiem Mass for the murdered policeman at the Church of the Immaculate ...

The HSE stated to the Northern Standard yesterday evening that Community Mental Health Teams would continue to work at the St Davnet’s site in Monaghan — even though it accepted that acute adult psychiatric services are moving to Cavan General Hospital. The HSE stated: “It is planned from May/June 2011 that all patients requiring acute adult inpatient care in Mental Health Services will be admitted to Cavan General Hospital. “Adult Acute Mental Health inpatient care will no longer be provided in St Davnet’s Hospital; however the Community Mental ...

A new free trade agreement to be implemented between Canada and Europe could open up major opportunities for Co Monaghan companies, the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Loyola Hearn, told the members of Monaghan Co Council when he delivered a formal address to them at their monthly meeting on Monday afternoon. Ambassador Hearn also highlighted employment opportunities for young Monaghan people who wished to emigrate to Canada, arguing that the skills and experience gained by people who emigrated to his country for a short period could prove of ...

The HSE has this week advised that there is currently a confirmed outbreak of Norovirus (Winter Vomiting Bug) in Cavan General Hospital, which provides acute care for patients in Monaghan and Cavan. This outbreak is currently affecting four general wards, according to the HSE: Surgical 1, Surgical 2, Medical 1 and Medical 2. Co-operation from the public in containing this outbreak is being asked, as follows: Visiting in these four wards is restricted to a maximum of two visitors per patient per day during the Visiting Times ...

michael@northern-standard.ie Monaghan’s flagship annual traditional music and arts event, the Féile Oriel Festival — which is due to take place this year on the May Bank Holiday weekend — was placed in jeopardy yesterday when a crucial funding application for the project was rejected by Monaghan Co Council’s Peace III Partnership. It is understood that an application for about €35,000 in Peace III funding had been submitted in respect of this year’s event, but that the relevant section of the Co Council did not believe itself to be in a ...

Two Lithuanian defendants who pleaded guilty, in separate cases, to charges that came before Monaghan District Court on Monday last were ordered by Judge Sean MacBride to leave to country. A third defendant, also from Lithuania, who admitted stealing a piece of jewellery belonging to another person at a shop in Monaghan, also came close to being told to leave Ireland, although the judge had a change of heart when Damien Rudden, solr, stressed that this had been his client’s only offence after being in this country for 10 ...

Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council by Independent member Seamus Treanor of works that had recently taken place to the façade of the restored Monaghan Courthouse building in Church Square. Colr Treanor said works that had been carried out to the windows and front door of the building amounted to “urban vandalism”, and made it look “like a 99c shop rather than a courthouse.” Asking who had approved planning permission for the works, the Independent councillor said that the steel sheeting that had been applied to the ...