Articles in the Monaghan Category

Some of the stewards and committee members from the recent Monaghan Town Country Music Festival are pictured at last Friday night’s end of festival appreciation event in the Westenra Arms Hotel with the cheque for the €50,000 which the event raised for distribution to local charities. © Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

PETER HUGHES An online petition calling on Independent member of Monaghan Co Council Seamus Treanor to resign following controversial comments he made about Muslims has attracted almost 600 signatures. Councillor Treanor has come in for some strong criticism, much of it circulating on social media forums, after he declared at last week’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District that 98% of Muslims who came to Ireland did not want to work. Speaking during a vote of sympathy to the French people on the Nice terrorist attack which was claimed by the Islamist extremist ...

Walkers can read some inspirational poetry during their stroll from now on as a new mural commissioned by Monaghan Tidy Towns has just been completed along a section of the Ulster Canal Greenway near St Davnet’s Complex. The mural features lines from poet Patrick Kavanagh’s “Canal Bank Walk” in script along part of the wooden fence with a depiction of the poet himself reclining along the bank. Artist Geraldine Martin, from Inniskeen, has been working on the project for some weeks – between the showers! Pictured are Artist Geraldine Martin ...

A 38-YEAR-OLD MAN was arrested at Monaghan District Court on Monday last — and subsequently refused bail — after allegedly assaulting a garda on the steps of the courthouse, following a brief hearing in which other charges against him had been adjourned to a later date. Gary Morgan of 89 Mullaghmatt, Monaghan town was remanded in custody after the judge was told of a fresh charge against him alleging that he assaulted Garda Padraig Scott at Church Square, Monaghan on Monday afternoon. Superintendent Noel Cunningham said this was ...

Michael Fisher The Minister for Foreign Affairs Charles Flanagan TD has said pursuing the British government on the issue of the Dublin Monaghan bombings in 1974 was a major priority for him and for the Irish government. He told the Dáil his commitment was reflected in the Programme for a Partnership Government that was agreed in May.   In a written response to questions tabled by the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and that party’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, Minister Flanagan said the all-Party Dáil motion on the Dublin-Monaghan bombing ...

Julie Brannigan of the Monaghan Town Country Music Festival organising committee pauses briefly in her current perpetual motion mode alongside local man Danny Aughey for our photographer Rory Geary yesterday afternoon, as final preparations for the fourth annual “run” of the internationally popular event were being made. The Festival kicks off tonight, Thursday with Jimmy Buckley the headlining act. See page seven for more details.

Monaghan Town businessman Raymond Aughey has been selected by the Fianna Fáil organisation in North Monaghan to replace Senator Robbie Gallagher on Monaghan Co Council. Mr Aughey was unopposed at the selection convention held in Monaghan’s Four Seasons Hotel on Monday night last. Clones-based Mike Durkan, who had unsuccessfully contested the February General Election for FF in Cavan/Monaghan, withdrew his candidacy. Mr Aughey’s co-option to the Co Council is due to take place at the local authority’s meeting in Castleblayney on Monday morning next. The convention was chaired by Declan Breathnach ...

PETER HUGHES Monaghan Town will face challenges and changes in the aftermath of the UK decision to depart from membership of the European Union – but the momentum for business recovery and development that is in the air, and the innate instinct for innovation and natural resilience possessed by local people, will see the area weather the Brexit storm. This was a summation of the views expressed to The Northern Standard on Tuesday by the Chairman of the Monaghan Town Team, Alan Johnston, and Town Centre Retail Co-ordinator Trevor Connolly. Reflecting on the ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie AS THE world mourned boxing legend of legends Muhammad Ali earlier this month, one Monaghan man, who had become closer to the champ and his people than perhaps anyone else in this country, was also quietly remembering the remarkable person he’d had the privilege of meeting on several occasions over the last 11 years. Paul McArdle, a Monaghan town native now studying nursing in London had his first handshake with ‘The Greatest’ at the opening of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky in November 2005 — ...