Articles in the This Week’s Newspaper Category

By PATSY McARDLE A PUBLIC meeting is being held in Monaghan this week, to get the views of local people on how they should commemorate the 1916 Rising. The meeting was organised as part of Ireland 2016, which is being led by local Fine Gael deputy and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD. Students from St Louis Girls’ National School also took part in the first of a series of Ireland 2016 children’s consultations. The children were asked for their views on how we should remember the children who ...

Caitriona Balfe who is currently filming a second television series of ‘Outlander’ in Scotland was in Dublin last weekend for the Irish Film and Television Academy film and drama awards. The Monaghan actress, who is from Tydavnet, began a very successful career in modelling at the age of 19. She featured in advertising campaigns for many top fashion brands and graced the covers of magazines such as Vogue and Elle. In 2009 Caitriona returned to her initial career choice in drama. She moved from New York to Los Angeles. spending her first ...

Michael Fisher The Cathaoirleach of Monaghan County Council Padraig McNally has hit out at Deputy Sean Conlan T.D. for criticism aimed at himself and fellow Fianna Fáil councillors. As reported in last week’s edition, Mr Conlan accused them of “putting party politics before the good of the people” by defending the role of Cabinet Minister Heather Humphreys T.D. of Fine Gael in the controversial North/South Interconnector project. In a statement to the Northern Standard, Deputy Conlan who is also a Fine Gael representative claimed Councillor McNally in his conduct at this ...

The outcome of the same-sex marriage referendum, while in conformity with most predictions, was sufficiently emphatic for it to take on the appearance of marking a very significant change in the prevailing attitudes, and social landscape, of the country. If indeed such change is discernible from the referendum’s passing by a comfortable majority, it has not come about overnight or been wrought by the workings of the campaign that preceded last Friday’s poll. The accommodation of gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as a discrete minority component of the population has ...

By Patsy McArdle MANY folk from all over Co. Monaghan, as well as from several adjoining counties on both sides of the Border, and from the Greater London area domiciled in Luton and Bedfordshire attended the 23rd annual dinner and dance of the Monaghan Association at   St Joseph’s Parish Centre, Gardenia Avenue, in Luton, Bedfordshire on Saturday night 2nd May last, 2015 Among the guests many friends and associates of Monaghan folk were in attendance from Braintree, London, Harlington, Bletchley, Northampton, and Co. Monaghan, especially North Monaghan. Cllr. Paudge Connolly (Monaghan) was joined ...

Monaghan Co Council are to seek a meeting with the relevant government departments north and south in order to progress the regeneration of the Ulster Canal, it was decided at the authority’s May meeting. Correspondence from the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure thanked the Co Council for its recent invitation to Minister Carál Ní Chuilín to meet with them and discuss the project. It stated that the Minister was unable to meet the Council and sent her apologies, but she had suggested that an official of her Dept meet ...

“140 full-time jobs are going from the town and people have the right to know what the Government is doing to help,” Sinn Féin’s Colm Carthy stated at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council in relation to the pending closure of the Bose factory in Carrickmacross. Colr Carthy dismissed as “a generic response” a letter from the private secretary of Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD responding to Co Council representations on the closure of the Bose facility. This merely stated …

PETER HUGHES Apparent tension in the relationship between Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys TD and her Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael party colleague in the Dáil Sean Conlan came in for critical comment at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. In correspondence to the Council on the north-south electricity interconnector issue, Deputy Conlan stated that he had written and called on Minister Humphreys “on numerous occasions” to use her Cabinet position to stop EirGrid from submitting a renewed planning application in relation to the project, but the Minister had not ...

Monaghan Mushrooms’ cutting edge research and development processes and technological adaptability played key roles in the company’s attainment of the prized Origin Green verification from Bord Bia – but, as Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys learned when she visited the Tyholland headquarters of the enterprise last Thursday, this remains a sector of agri-food activity heavily reliant on the human touch, writes Peter Hughes. President to celebrate the Origin Green achievement of Co Monaghan’s global mushroom production leader, the Minister and Bord Bia Chief Executive Aidan Cotter were ...

The people of our county take great and justifiable pride in the achievements of Monaghan Mushrooms. It has long been a flagship emblem for the entrepreneurial flair we believe distinguishes us – a company founded in the 1980s by a local businessman, Ronnie Wilson, with a novel idea and the vision and energy to develop it to the optimum, that has gone on to be a global leader as well as a significant local employer. Monaghan Mushrooms has commanded a position of majesty in the business world for so long now that ...