Articles in the Rockcorry Category

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 ...

A Rockcorry truck driver has been jailed for five years for importing €600,000 worth of cannabis into the State. David Mathews (27) was observed by gardai driving his truck off the ferry at Dublin Port and transporting the drugs to his Monaghan home where two men met him and took the cannabis to Northern Ireland. They were stopped after they crossed the border by the PSNI and each was later jailed for six years Mathews, of Drumgola, Rockcorry pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the ...

The practice of national politicians ‘announcing’ or claiming credit for funding or projects approved by the Government that they might not have had any direct involvement in securing came in for criticism at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council. The criticism was voiced in the course of comments of welcome for the acquisition by the Council of €11,500 in funding for the provision of outdoor fitness machines that are to be sited in the Peter’s Lake area of the town. Cathaoirleach David Maxwell said he had received ...

The sparkling and spacious new Church of Ireland National School in Rockcorry received its first batch of pupils on Tuesday last, marking a major milestone in what has been a hugely successful project in difficult times, and bringing six years of initial planning to a culmination. Under the stewardship of long-serving school principal Hazel Speares, the tastefully designed new school has three classrooms, a resource room, learning support room, staff room, offices, general purpose hall and toilets, and is set in grounds comprising a grass pitch and hard-core pitch ...

An 18-year-old Rockcorry woman remained in a critical condition at Cavan Hospital last night following a horrific traffic accident on Tuesday evening last when the car being driven by her mother was involved in a collision with a rigid lorry. The Scania tipper truck, which was also driven by a local man, had been travelling towards Rockcorry at Claraghy, about half a mile outside the village when the accident occurred. It is understood that the woman, whose 18 and 12-year-old daughters were in the Ford Focus five-door car, ...

ROCKCORRY 0-10 DRUMHOWAN 0-05 JOHN GRAHAM reports Rockcorry are safely through to the semi-final of the intermediate football championship after proving too strong and too versatile for Drumhowan in this always interesting if never spectacular game that was played in blustery and even wintry conditions in Aughnamullen on Sunday evening last. The result is another disappointing chapter in what is proving to be a difficult season for Drumhowan who now exit the series and all their ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie growing frustration with the ever increasing levels of illegal poaching of fish on local rivers and lakes came to a head at a special meeting organised last Thursday night in the Sail Inn, Shercock, where a new initiative to be known as ‘Lakewatch’ was launched in a bid to counteract the problem. The damage being done to angling tourism by illegal fishing practices on lakes — and the littering that went hand in hand with it — was highlighted by the large gathering of local enthusiasts that ...