Articles in the Rockcorry Category

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 ...

This Sunday sees the first of the Monaghan football club championship finals when Blackhill and Rockcorry play for the Universal Graphics sponsored Junior Championship title at O’Neill Park, Clontibret. by JOHN GRAHAM The big question going into Sunday’s Universal Graphics Junior Football Championship Final is will Blackhill be able to wipe away the bitter taste of defeat in the last two finals, three if you count their replay against Emyvale, and in the process take the club’s fifth Junior football championship title, or will it be Junior championship title number two ...

Exploration company identifies new potential source of precious metal Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc, the gold exploration and development company focused on Ireland and Finland, this week announced the discovery of an extensive gold-in-soil anomaly near  Rockcorry in Co Monaghan. The 700m x 300m discovery lies approximately seven kilometres southwest of the company’s Glenish gold target and fourteen kilometres southwest of Clontibret, where Conroy proposes to develop its first gold mine in the area. The discovery is located within the fifty-kilometre gold trend that the company has previously outlined and the company says ...

IT WAS with great regret that the Northern Standard learned of the death  of the much beloved Canon Gerard Ferguson, PE, Parochial House, Rockcorry, who passed away at Cavan General Hospital following a short illness. Canon Ferguson, who was 88, had been in deteriorating health in recent years, but sought to participate occasionally at Masses and other events up until relatively recently.

By PATSY McARDLE A CLOSE-KNIT rural community was shocked and stunned over the Easter period by the sudden and untimely death last Thursday, as a result of a tragic farm accident near Rockcorry, of a very popular 28-years-old local man, David Fitzpatrick. Mr Fitzpatrick was working along with his father, Ciaran, on the family farm at Kilnaharvey when he was crushed by a large door, which, it was reported, had slipped from a tractor forklift. After being extricated with great care and difficulty from his trapped position, the young ...