Articles in the Scotstown Category

Packie Bonner, the man who entered the annals of Irish sporting legend with his goalkeeping heroics for the Republic of Ireland soccer team, made a big impact with his young fans at last Saturday’s official opening of the astro pitches development at Knockatallon. A full report and more pictures from this signal event for the North Monaghan community will appear in next week’s edition. Photo ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

By Cianna McNally Monaghan  Rose Michelle Caulfield is Tralee bound later this summer as she was selected to go through to the International Festival last weekend. Michelle, who hails from Scotstown, is the second Rose in two years who will fly the flag for the county during the festival as Clontibret girl Eleanor McQuaid was part of the 2013 event. Speaking to The Northern Standard a delighted Michelle, who was one of 23 Roses selected for Tralee at the Regional Finals in Portlaoise over the June bank holiday weekend, told of her shock ...

By Veronica Corr No-one can resist a good Christmas song and festive tunes don’t come much catchier than ‘Let The Snowflakes Fall’, written and performed by Ultan Sherry, a twenty-year-old Media Studies student from Scotstown. Ultan, who is currently studying in Maynooth wrote the song during his Christmas holidays last year. As we went to press the song and accompanying video had received almost 140,000 hits on YouTube, despite the fact that it was only uploaded on Monday week, having been recorded the previous day by Murphy Video Services, Emyvale. Ultan, who has Asperger’s ...

Cathy Bennett of Drumdesco, Scotstown has been co-opted by Sinn Féin to fill the vacancy created on Monaghan Co Council by the passing earlier this year of the party’s North Monaghan councillor Sheila McKenna. Colr Bennett was formally welcomed onto the authority at its December meeting on Monday. Addressing the members, she paid a warm tribute to “the great woman” who was her predecessor, and pledged to work hard with her colleagues to make a positive contribution for the people of Co Monaghan. SF’s Brian McKenna told ...

By Patsy McArdle Rugby exponents and other popular sports’ personalities took part on Sunday last in a special day-long charity fund-raising programme for a six-years-old North Monaghan girl who may have to travel overseas for life-saving treatment for Retts’ Syndrome. Shauna McPhillips of Scotstown, is suffering from the rare neuro-development disorder which is threatening her life and is causing severe multiple disabilities. She is the youngest daughter of Declan and Marie McPhillips, who have another young daughter, Sinead. Her ...

By Veronica Corr MONAGHAN MAN Stephen Brannigan has every reason to be a proud father, as he found himself in the unusual position of having to deliver his own son — with a little help from his wife Niamh and a paramedic at the end of the phone! Baby Parker, weighing seven pounds and nine ounces, was born at 1.18am on Friday last, August 5th. The delivery took place in the front seat of his parents’ car, as there were two child seats in the back! Conscientious dad Stephen had one child ...

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches, And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows the horses and cattle….” This might well have been theme-song of the organisers when they brought their singing wheels to The National Senior Cycling Road Race Championships hosted in North Monaghan last weekend, 23rd–26th June. Nestled just a mile or two from the main Dublin-Derry road (N2) lies the parish of Tydavnet, the location of the twenty-five-kilometre circuit chosen for the event. The four parish villages are Ballinode, ...