Articles in the This Week’s Newspaper Category

By PATSY McARDLE CAVAN/MONAGHAN Fine Gael Dail deputy Sean Conlan has taken up the cudgels this week against Monaghan County Council and the powers-that-be at local authority level over the ‘scandal’ of the permitted ongoing deterioration of Castleblayney Courthouse and Markethouse building which is a key landmark in the mid-Monaghan town. Deputy Conlan’s statement came in a week in which the Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald welcomed public- private partnership for development of seven new or upgraded courthouses, elsewhere in the country. The Castleblayney courthouse is however no longer classified as ...

PETER HUGHES Newly-elected Cathaoirleach of the Monaghan Municipal District, Fianna Fáil Co Councillor Robbie Gallagher, has urged the body to work with commercial and community interests to maximise the potential for development of Monaghan Town and its surrounding hinterland. “Monaghan has a lot to offer and I think we can deliver it,” Colr Gallagher stated following his election at the Municipal District’s Annual Meeting last Tuesday. “With people all pushing in the same direction there is no limit to what the town can achieve.” Colr Gallagher succeeds Sinn Féin’s Sean Conlon in the Cathaoirleach ...

The stately homes of Ireland are about to be invaded by three intrepid Chefs who will take the viewer on a quest to recreate the grand feasts, lavish dinners and party buffets that these great kitchens once prepared for all kinds of special celebrations and give the audience a peep behind the doors and histories of some of the grandest stately private homes and the families who have lived there. Lords & Ladles takes the viewer on a historical journey to celebrate our past through the wonders of food and the ...

PETER HUGHES Government Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has launched a new publication charting the progress of equality issues in Co Monaghan over the past sixty years with encouragement to both the people of the county and country to continue the conversation about equal rights and to address outstanding issues of discrimination and isolation. The Labour Party Deputy and Minister of State with special responsibility for Equality, New Communities and Culture and Drugs Strategy was in Monaghan Co Museum on Thursday morning to lend his imprimatur to the publication of “Equality – Our ...

Monaghan Social Inclusion week 2015 brought a great atmosphere of celebration to the county last week. A wide range of events, activities and celebrations took place throughout the week that all said clearly the same message. It’s ok to be different. Not everyone in Monaghan feels ok to be different, not everyone in Monaghan feels its ok for others to be different. The truth is, every day in Monaghan, Ireland and the rest of the world people are often treated differently because they are different. But Monaghan social inclusion measures group, led ...

So where will this one be won and lost? Monaghan are certainly the stronger team in that they are looking for a place in the final of the Ulster championship for the third year in row, they are playing in division 1 of the Allianz Football league and have retained senior status for the 2016 season, giving them an edge in both quality and experience against a Fermanagh team that had their first championship victory this year since 2010 and who were playing two divisions lower than Monaghan in league ...

Monaghan return to Cavan to take on Fermanagh in Sunday’s Ulster SFC semi-final with a place in a third consecutive provincial final within reach. by COLM SHALVEY Monaghan’s build-up to this game has been rocked by the news that Drew Wylie faces a long lay-off after he suffered a cruciate-ligament injury in Ballybay’s Senior Football League game against Inniskeen a fortnight ago. He is the third Monaghan player to suffer the dreaded knee injury in less than a year and just as 2013 All-Star corner-back Colin Walshe comes into contention ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE nightmare of homes being re-possessed by the banks in cases where mortgages cannot be met by families, including families in the border region, was raised by the local Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy, during a session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week. Mr. Carthy said he wanted to focus on the “frighteningly high number of home re-possessions now taking place in Ireland”. He highlighted the fact that four homes a day are now being repossessed by the banks. He said: “There has ...

Renowned Anti-Austerity Alliance activist and TD, Paul Murphy, is coming to the Hillgrove Hotel on Thursday 18th June at 19:30 to discuss the anti- water charges movement so far, and how Irish Water and the Government’s charges can be defeated through mass non-payment. “Paul’s arrival comes in the context of the ongoing battle of ordinary people against the water charges, and is a particular timely discussion as the government refuse to release the figures of payment, which indicates that the boycott has been successful so far. “Come along to hear ...

By Cianna McNally Although there have been no cattle thefts in counties Cavan and Monaghan in the last five months, investigations by gardaí into the issue are very much ongoing as Superintendent Fergus Treanor from the Cavan/Monaghan Division highlighted at a meeting this week. Superintendent Treanor gave a detailed presentation on cattle thefts relating to both counties at a meeting of Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee on Tuesday. Between January 2013 and April 2015, 225 cattle and 295 sheep, with a total value of almost €124,000, were stolen from the Cavan/Monaghan areas. ...