Articles in the Monaghan Category

This striking elevated view of the dazzling fireworks display mounted in Monaghan Town as part of the annual Monaghan Neighbourhood Youth Project Hallowe’en  celebrations on Sunday night last was captured by Northern Standard photographer Rory Geary.

Mid-Monaghan based Fianna Fáil senator, Francie O’Brien has a deficit of over €12.8 million in liabilities over assets, according to a statement of affairs submitted to the Commercial Court hearing in which he and three others, including former Irish Nationwide CEO Michael Fingleton are being pursued by Ulster Bank for a multi-million euro loan taken out to invest in a property in Co Cavan. At the hearing on Monday of this week, Mr Justice Peter Kelly of the High Court granted Ulster Bank a summary judgment for €13.6 million against Mr ...

The HSE has this week stated that the long-promised CT scanning service has finally been established in Monaghan Hospital. Local hospital campaigners and political representatives had, for some considerable time now, been calling for the service to be put in place. The HSE said it was pleased to announce that the new CT scanning service has commenced in Monaghan from last Monday, 1st November and will operate two and a half days per week, on an “outpatient, non-urgent” basis. Patients requiring specific CT scans may now be referred directly by their GPs ...

A proposal for a new manufacturing and light industry development at Tullygrimes on the Clones Road outside Monaghan Town, which was stated to possess the potential to create 256 new jobs, was given planning approval at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. A material contravention of the Monaghan Co Development Plan had to be approved by the members to facilitate the planning application, which was submitted by TF Partnership. As outlined in the application, the development on a 4.74-hectare site will consist of an industrial manufacturing unit and associated office space, as ...

The recent Taste of Monaghan Festival was hailed as a great success by the members of Monaghan Town Council on Monday night. Councillors passed a vote of congratulations with the organisers of the Festival. Congratulations were also expressed to the pupils of St Macartan’s College who represented their school at a recent law event in the United States. Sean Conlon congratulated actor Aoibhin McGinnity from the Clones Road in Monaghan who had a leading role in the current RTE drama series Love/Hate.  Colr Conlon noted that Aoibhin had started off her acting career ...

The design of the new roundabout in the Old Cross Square area of Monaghan Town – which has excited much comment, a good degree of it critical, among the general public in recent weeks – was defended by Co Manager Declan Nelson and Monaghan Town Engineer Gareth McMahon at local authority meetings on Monday. Raising the issue at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council, Fine Gael’s Hugh McElvaney told Director of Services for Roads David Fallon that he believed it was most imperative for him to make a statement on the ...

An initiative to establish a creative industries hub in Co Monaghan could open up a new stream of employment opportunities for the county’s young people, Chief Executive Officer Martin G O’Brien told Monday’s meeting of Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee. The CEO said the VEC was leading the project and were working on its development with the Blackwater Regional Partnership.  Carol Lambe of Monaghan Co Council was also assisting in the application, which was being put forward for INTERREG funding support. The initiative “has the potential to create a whole new stream ...

Launched on Friday last, the Irish version of Google Maps’ “Street View” allows internet users to take a virtual tour of just about every highway, byway, roadway, street and alley in the country. Most people who’ve tried it have already parked themselves outside the “cyber” versions of their own houses, probably because we like to see how our own humble abodes and portions of the national territory look in the wider scheme of things. It also means that we’ve been given a chance to catch up on our neighbours in the North and ...

It will not be possible to extend the deadline for public submissions on the new Clontibret to the Border N2 road scheme any further than the current closing date of September 30, officials of Monaghan Co Council stated at their October meeting on Monday. However, both Director of Services for Roads David Fallon and Co Manager Declan Nelson gave an assurance that any significant new information that might come to hand and be supplied to the Council following that date would be factored into the analysis of the submissions to take ...