Articles in the This Week’s Newspaper Category

By Cianna McNally A Clones athlete who had his prosthetic running blade stolen last weekend has appealed to the thieves to return it. As previously reported in The Northern Standard, Shane McLaughlin from Clonkeencole is working towards achieving a place on the national Paralympics team. He is a member of the Irish Wheelchair Association Sports throws section, which incorporates javelin, discus and shotputt. Shane, whose blade was stolen from his car in the early hours of last Saturday morning, has a prosthetic leg for day to day use. He is due to take ...

TThe importance of the GAA to the Irish social engine is indisputable. From its very beginnings the Association has laid legitimate claim to territory beyond the demarcations of the playing field, drawing to itself a governance of influence on aspects of life that are interwoven with how we define what it is to be Irish. It has facilitated, and often battled to preserve, the identifying distinctiveness of our language and forms of cultural expression – and it has provided an interlocking structure that has enabled our social building ...

PETER HUGHES The technical assessment to be performed by the planning authority of Monaghan Co Council in relation to the renewed application submitted by EirGrid to An Bord Pleanala this week for the development of the North-South electricity interconnector would be conducted on a completely independent and impartial basis, Chief Executive Eugene Cummins and Senior Planner Adrian Hughes told Monday’s meeting of the local authority. Members were informed that the independent nature of the role the planning section of the Council had to play in assessing the project application meant that its ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie JUDGE Denis McLoughlin, the newly appointed resident District Court judge for the Cavan/Monaghan area (Court District Number 5), was welcomed by speakers representing the legal community, court staff, the gardai and the Probation Service at the outset of Monday’s sitting of Monaghan District Court. A native of Drogheda in Co Louth, Judge McLoughlin was confirmed as new residing judge for Cavan/Monaghan following a meeting of the Government on 27th May last. Having been made a judge on 6th June 2007, he takes up the permanent post in District 5 ...

– Association President tells Co Council that St Tiernach’s Park has “nothing to fear” from Casement project PETER HUGHES The vow that the GAA “will never abandon Clones” as a venue for major games was made by the Association’s National President, Co Cavan man Aogán Ó Fearghail, when he addressed Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. While the controversial Sky broadcasting deal, the development of the GAA in diaspora communities and the disrespect sometimes shown by Gaelic sports players towards match officials were prominent among a wide range of topics addressed in ...

A powerful focus for the message of Monaghan Social Inclusion Week 2015 was formally unveiled by Monaghan Co Council in Monaghan Town’s Diamond on Tuesday morning last. Images from the book ‘Here I Am’, published by Down Syndrome Ireland, have gone on display in the county town heartland and will remain on view until June 14 as an articulation of the “It’s okay to be different” message that themes this year’s comprehensive programme of social inclusion activities. Monaghan Co Council’s Leas Cathaoirleach, Sinn Féin public representative Jackie Crowe, ...

The crème de la crème of local young golf talent are expected to compete in this year’s annual U18 Northern Standard Golf Championship. The event is now a blue chip item on the local golfing calendar with the very best of under 18 golfers set fair to do their club and families proud on the lush fairways and pristine greens of Rossmore Golf Club The event is scheduled to take place on Friday, July 3rd with a bumper crew of talented, up-and-coming teenage golfers preparing to take to the starting line for ...

The countdown is on to Monaghan’s Ulster Senior Football Championship semi-final against Fermanagh in Kingspan Breffni Park Cavan on Sunday week. by COLM SHALVEY With ten days to go, Malachy O’Rourke and co. are once again sweating over the fitness of Drew Wylie. The full-back, twice an All-Star nominee, won his race to be fit for the Ulster quarter-final win over Cavan, when he made his tenth consecutive championship start for Monaghan, but the Ballybay man is again said to be doubtful for the clash with Fermanagh. Dick Clerkin, who was ...

The inaugural Farney Challenge last weekend proved to be a golfer’s dream tournament even if the weather wasn’t always kind over the three days of competition. Rossmore, Mannan Castle and Concra Wood take a bow! by KEVIN CARNEY In a week that saw summer beat a path back to our doorsteps, the Farney Challenge shone like a beacon. For once, the race to lift the Anglo Celt Cup next month took a back seat as upwards on 120 golfers sought to get their hands on arguably the most glittering ...

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 ...