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Monaghan 0-15 Westmeath 1-09 By JOHN GRAHAM THE outcome for Monaghan in the end was a place in the Hastings Cup Shield Semi-Final when they held out for a three points victory over Westmeath in a tough, no holds barred contest that was played in greasy and wintry conditions in Inniskeen on Saturday afternoon last. This was the game of the two proverbial halves, Westmeath the dominant force in the first half as Monaghan struggled to put anything like a cohesive game together with far too many unforced errors, but then taking over almost ...

By Colm Shalvey Like their neighbours Truagh, Emyvale’s 2013 championship run will continue into 2014 after they jumped the All-Ireland Club JFC quarter-final hurdle in Birmingham last Sunday. Emyvale’s preparations for this potential banana skin of a match were not helped by high winds causing the cancellation of their scheduled direct flight to Birmingham on Saturday, leaving the panel stuck in Dublin Airport for a number of hours before eventually flying to Manchester and on to their intended destination by road. They did manage to keep spirits up in their long ...

Irish Water is to start installing water meters in County Monaghan in the coming weeks. Advance notification of at least 14 days will be issued to each householder before meters are installed with information packs outlining the details of the installation process. There are no upfront costs for meters and water charges are due to be introduced in Q1 2015, with the first bills issuing in April 2015. Already over 540,000 water meters have been installed around the country. This is the most ambitious nationwide metering programme of its type ever undertaken, with ...

Monaghan Co Council has agreed a proposal to provide €25,000 part-sponsorship to rising Co Monaghan rally star Daniel McKenna to assist his participation in the World Junior Rally Championships next year. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Council’s Corporate Policy Group on Monday and follows a lengthy discussion of the plan at the local authority’s December monthly meeting the previous week. Following Monday’s decision, it was stated that the sponsorship figure is dependent on Mr McKenna, who is from Scotshouse near Clones, completing all stages of the championship, the ...

CLONTIBRET V SLAUGHTNEIL champions, Slaughtneil Robert Emmets meet in Healy Park, Omagh, on Sunday to see which of them will contest this year’s final AIB Ulster Club Senior Football Championship Final against either St Eunan’s of Donegal or the Tyrone champions Omagh St. Enda’s. Clontibret last reached the final of the Ulster club senior football championship 20 years ago this year, back in 1994 when they lost narrowly to Derry’s side Bellaghy in Armagh. Slaughtneil on the other hand are seeking to reach their first ever Ulster club final and they will ...

Five Monaghan teams are in Ulster Club Football Championship action this weekend, having been shown the way by Castleblayney’s hurlers last Sunday. Castleblayney won their second Ulster Club Junior Hurling Championship title with a dominant second-half performance against Na Magha in Dungannon. Blayney, who had goals by Niall Garland and Fergal Rafter in the first half, changed ends on level terms, but were soon in the driving seat after the Derry City club had Breandán Quigley sent off. With Hugh Byrne and Rafter taking their personal tallies to 0-7 and 1-3 ...

There is still plenty to be decided in the county’s football leagues, with the Eurotech Junior Football League up for grabs between Blackhill and Aughnamullen in Oram this Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY Both of these teams were left down in the dumps after losing to eventual winners Drumhowan in the JFC, but they have managed to regroup to earn a second chance at promotion in this final. Aughnamullen were relegated last year after six consecutive campaigns in intermediate and they were always among the front-runners to bounce straight back, even though ...

SOUTH Monaghan based Sinn Fein MEP for the Midlands-North West, Matt Carthy, voiced strong support for the IFA protest campaign to highlight the poor prices farmers were getting for beef, when he commended the group assembled outside the ABP meat processing plant in Clones, earlier this week. He said the level of frustration and anger of local beef farmers was palpable and the fact that this it was the first protest of this type in 15 years reflected the growing “sense of desperation felt by many farmers as they continue to ...

The journey from ‘Minutes’ to ‘Any Other Business’ was taken by the members of Monaghan Town Council for the final time last Wednesday evening. The final chapter of a chronicle in Irish local government over 170 years in the writing was set down with appropriate reflection as the members of the county town authority met for the last time in the meeting chamber of the Town Hall building at the top of Dublin Street – a location also set to cease to be as a component of municipal administration under the ...