Articles in the Monaghan Category

On Monday last a gathering of local business men and women met  in the Westenra Hotel for the launch of the Monaghan chapter of BNI. BNI is a world-wide organisation in which chapters of business people meet weekly to  exchange referrals and testimonials, and to learn more about each other’s businesses. The meeting was very well attended with just over 100 people there. The Monaghan or Diamond chapter has an initial membership of 25 and are hoping to bring it up to 45. Many different business types and sectors were represented at the ...

Monaghan Town Council are to consult with residents of the Mullaghmatt housing estate on a scaled-down proposal by the National Building Agency to provide additional housing in a particular area of the estate in order to address the problem of an open space which has become the location for anti-social behaviour. An initial plan to build eight houses in the area concerned was rejected by local residents, but at the September meeting of the Town Council last week plans were outlined for the provision of three single-storey houses in the location ...

By PATSY McARDLE A PLAN  to construct Ireland’s biggest biomass power station has been given the go-ahead in the North by  the Environment Minister of Northern Ireland, Mr. Edwin Poots—-after a fifteen-year campaign by a North Monaghan firm failed to get approval for a similar type of project in the Republic. THE  disclosure has particularly angered  everyone who was supportive of the efforts to get this type of plant set up in Co. Monaghan. Yesterday Mr. Aiden McCarron, who along with his brother Maurice, had been working on building a similar biomass  power ...

The members of Monaghan Town Council agreed on Monday night to the suggestion of Town Manager Declan Nelson that the developers of the stalled ‘mixed use’ project in the town centre be requested to fill in portion of the site in order to restore car-parking close to the Dublin Street part of the town. The Manager expressed the view that the measure would keep the project alive, stating that at the same time the developers could pursue their stated objective of providing the civic offices portion of the scheme as its ...

Sinn Féin Town Councillor Paul McGeown expressed alarm at last week’s meeting of the Monaghan Joint Policing Committee at serious incidents of misbehaviour he had witnessed being perpetrated by underage drinkers in the centre of Monaghan Town recently following a teenage disco. Colr McGeown, whose comments provoked a detailed debate about teenage drinking problems in the town, said that two weeks previously following a teenage disco in the town, he had counted fifteen children sitting drinking Buckfast and other alcoholic drinks.  He had witnessed the young people, who were aged on ...

Hardly worthy of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps, but the question of where the statutory authority lies for the alleviation of flooding problems created by the Shambles River in Monaghan Town generated a mystery that couldn’t be solved at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council! Representatives of the Office of the Public Works present at the meeting to give a presentation on flooding-related issues were unable to give a definitive response on whether the OPW or the Co Council had responsibility for the Shambles tributary. The OPW’s Dr Leslie Lennox and Gavin Poole promised, ...

Monaghan again rocked to some great music over the weekend. Despite the weather there was a great atmosphere in the town. Check out our images of the weekend, full report to follow.

MONAGHAN TOWN has been rated one of the worst of the border towns in the annual IBAL (Irish Businesses Against Litter) results. Out of 53 towns and cities surveyed, Monaghan – in previous years one of IBAL’s better towns – ranked in 47th place and just three sites in the town were listed as being Clean to European Norms. What was listed as the Monaghan Town Council Public Playing Pitch fared the worst as it was described as a litter blackspot and the results stated, “There was a constant stream of ...

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD on Monday officially opened a new €12 million state-of-the-art mushroom growing facility which has been built by Tyholland Mushrooms Limited, an associate company of Monaghan Mushrooms at their headquarters in Tyholland, on the outskirts of Monaghan town. The new facility, which will generate 150 jobs, is made up of 18 individual mushroom growing houses that together provide a total growing area of 21,306 square metres. When operating at full capacity, it will have an output of 115 tonnes of mushrooms per ...

The dramatist writing the script for Monaghan United’s extraordinary season excelled himself on Tuesday night, contriving a scenario worthy of the club’s historic achievement in reaching the final of the EA Sports League Cup, writes Peter Hughes … A frenetic semi-final clash with Dundalk has reached a tension point as tight as a tourniquet when, with four minutes on the clock and the prospect of extra time imminent, United midfielder Cathal O’Connor, latching onto an astute pass from substitute Darragh Hanaphy, turned onto his left foot and sent a low drive ...