Articles in the Rockcorry Category

Plans are in train to develop parts of Dartrey Forest Park as a visitor attraction but the process will be a delicate one given the area’s principal designation as a commercial forestry, the members of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District were informed on Monday. The MD meeting heard an illuminating presentation from Co Tourism Officer Dympna Condra and Sue Mannis from consultants The Paul Hogarth Company on the project, which has a declared focus on “low-impact, sensitively designed interventions to enhance the outdoor experience in Dartrey Forest, particularly along the existing ...

Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has given her approval for the construct ion of a major extension a t the Scoil Mhuire national school in Rockcorry. The project, which will be carried out under the Department of Education’s capital programme, will see the delivery of four new classrooms and two special education rooms. Welcoming the announcement , Cavan/Monaghan TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys said that approval for the project had been long awaited, and the works entailed were badly needed. “Well done to the entire school community for ...

“There in his noisy mansion, skill’d to rule, The village master taught his little school…” Something of the wistfulness of the famous Oliver Goldsmith poem The Deserted Village was evoked in Rockcorry on Tuesday when pupils assisted their principal Donal Quigley in transferring materials from the old School Mhuire national school building on its last day of use. When pupils and principal return in around a year’s time, it will be to a new five-classroom development recently conferred formal approval by Minister for Education Norma Foley TD which promises to ...

Rockcorry is to be provided with a localised, specially licensed taxi service as part of a national one-year pilot programme which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD says will “help improve transport choices for people living in rural locations across the country.” Twenty locations are included in the Local Hackney Pilot Programme, described by Minister Ryan’s Department as “designed to encourage new parttime local hackney services to operate in communities which could not support a full-time taxi or hackney operation.” Applications to take part in the initiative can be made ...

Leading healthcare company, MSD, has today announced the appointment of Rockcorry woman Mairead McCaul as Managing Director of its Human Health business in Ireland. Daughter of Mary and the late Michael McCaul, Mairead attended the St Louis Secondary School in Monaghan Town. She will also assume the role of Head of the MSD Ireland Country Leadership Team which includes representatives from MSD’s six sites in Ireland as well as key business areas, succeeding Ger Brennan, who recently moved to a new role. Mairead is currently Business Unit Director, Oncology and ...

Election of Officers Members of Monaghan Comhairle na nÓg enjoyed a team building residential in Tanagh Outdoor Education Centre during their February mid-term break. The group were elected onto the new committee at the Comhairle na nÓg AGM which took place in October 2015. Over the last few months the group have met on a number of occasions and have elected their new officers. Newly elected into their posts for the 2016 term were the following; Chairperson: Conor Greene (Patrician High School), Vice Chair: Ultan O Rourke (St Marcartans), Joint Secretaries: ...

Monaghan’s representatives in last Sunday’s AIB Ulster Club Finals experienced contrasting fortunes, with Scotstown going so close to completing a remarkable double just a few hours after Rockcorry thrilled their supporters with a famous victory. by COLM SHALVEY The double-header treated the crowd of nearly 9,000 in Armagh to some brilliant drama, starting with Rockcorry’s deserved JFC Final win over Faughanvale. Rock were in command of this junior decider throughout, even if their goal lived a charmed life at times, as they became the fifth Monaghan club to take the Paul ...

Scotstown and Rockcorry will be bidding for Ulster Club Football Championship titles at the Athletic Grounds this Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Scotstown take on the modern kingpins of Ulster club football, Crossmaglen, who are unbeaten in ten provincial finals. Four-time winners Scotstown have a history of success in this competition going back to the 1970s and ‘80s and although this is their first final since 1989, their modern stars like Darren and Kieran Hughes and Rory Beggan will be determined to add to their inter-county Ulster medals. Scotstown lost narrowly to ...

AIB Ulster Club Junior Football Championship Round Up Is this current Rockcorry team the best team the club has come up with in nearly 30 years? Of course, we don’t want to overcook the already simmering expectation that has the village on-the-boil but, Berger, they’re looking good! Those of a certain vintage in this neck of the woods remember great Rock’ teams from the early to mid-eighties. We won’t mention names. Some of them are currently in their pomp within the club as coaches and administrators and it wouldn’t do if ...

Rockcorry meets Killanny in the Junior Football League Final on Sunday hoping for a championship and league double at junior level. But they are up against a Killanny side showing good form which is never easy. by JOHN GRAHAM It may not be a unique situation when Killanny and Rockcorry meet this Sunday in the final of the Junior football league, but it is a little unusual, as both are already promoted to intermediate ranks for next season, Rockcorry as the winners of the Junior football championship and Killanny as the ...