Articles in the This Week’s Newspaper Category

A crowd of people turned out in Emyvale last Saturday evening in honour of and to congratulate local woman and Triple World Champion Louise McKenna. Louise won her impressive title at the World Single Lift Championships in Telford, England two weeks ago and she paraded her three trophies through the village last weekend. Louise, who is daughter of Antoinette and Martin McKenna, was one of 100 lifters (50 men and 50 women) from the Irish Drug Free Powerlifting Association who represented Ireland at the three-day event. Many other nationalities from across the world also took part. It ...

AN EMYVALE MAN who reached from a passing car to push a young teenager off his bicycle last summer was given sentences amounting to 10 months’ in prison when he appeared at Monaghan District Court on Monday last. Thomas McCarron, aged 22, of Killydreen, Emyvale pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm in relation to the incident, in which 13-year-old Conor McKenna sustained cuts and bruises after being deliberately knocked from his bicycle while training to take part in an Ulster championship cycling competition. In imposing a six-month prison term ...

The Ballybay flag was flying high on German soil over the weekend of 12th – 14th June, as an official delegation, made up of the then Cathaoirleach of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District, Councillor Ciara McPhillips and Councillor Cathy Bennett, accompanied by Municipal District Co-ordinator, Kevin McNally visited Gergweis and Osterhofen in Bavaria, Germany. This official visit coincided with the private trips of former Ballybay town councillors, Martin McAvinney and Bríege Rutledge and her husband John to the area. The people of Ballybay have enjoyed a rich friendship with the people of Gergweis, ...

Monaghan 1-20 Fermanagh 0-13 MONAGHAN are safely through to their third Ulster Final in a row but it wasn’t until the latter stages of this exhilarating and at times frustrating contest that they put real daylight between themselves and a tenacious Fermanagh who pushed them to the limit repeatedly during the match at KIngspan Breffni Park last Sunday. Fermanagh were reduced to fourteen players in the 22nd minute of the second half when Ryan McCluskey was red carded for a follow through challenge on Owen Duffy when he was on the ground after ...

Monaghan are in a third consecutive Ulster SFC Final for the first time since the 1920s after they kept their cool to beat Fermanagh last Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan were pushed for 55 minutes of this game, albeit without ever looking in real danger, before Ryan McCluskey’s sending-off helped open the floodgates in the closing stages. The teams were level five times in the first half, but Monaghan finished it with a flourish, as a Conor McManus free and a point by Darren Hughes, who finished from a very tight ...

By KEVIN CARNEY Next month the fourth annual Northern Standard U18 Open Golf Championship will take place at Rossmore Golf Club. Some of the best underage golfers in south Ulster will make their way to the Cootehill road, Monaghan town-based club to showcase their skills and try to win the coveted trophy. The race to succeed last year’s winner Ronan O’Callaghan (Mannan Castle) is very much on. Interestingly, players from three different clubs have won the competition since its inception in 2012. This week, we speak to two insiders about this year’s competition on July ...

Michael Fisher A GAA footballer from County Monaghan, Thomas Connolly from Latton, has received a two-year ban following an anti-doping violation. His case was reviewed by the GAA’s Anti-Doping Hearings Committee. It took the view that the violation that occurred earlier this year was not intentional and therefore not subject to the standard four-year suspension. As a result, the player is to be suspended from club and county Gaelic football for two years. He has leave to appeal the decision within 21 days. Connolly was a trialist with the Monaghan county squad at ...

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 ...

THE EQUALITY JOURNEY The wide range of activities that took place across our county during the recent Social Inclusion Week undoubtedly sharpened awareness of the eternal topicality of equality issues, reinforcing the message that while a great deal has been done to extend social opportunity to everyone in our county, there remains a great deal more to do. We tend to pride ourselves as individuals upon our modern acceptance of groupings that were once marginalised or isolated – the single mother, the person with different skin colour, same-sex couples, people with disabilities, ...

By Cianna McNally “It really hasn’t sunk in yet that I am a Triple World Champion but when I see how it has made my family and friends feel and how proud they are then it makes me feel like the happiest girl on earth.” So said Emyvale woman Louise McKenna who won her impressive title at the World Single Lift Championships in Telford, England last weekend. Louise, who is daughter of Antoinette and Martin McKenna, was one of 100 lifters (50 men and 50 women) from the Irish Drug Free Powerlifting Association who represented Ireland ...