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Scotstown 1-18 Latton 1-17 JOHN GRAHAM Reigning champions Scotstown booked their place in the semi-finals of the Greenfield Foods Snior Football Championship with the narrowest of victories over Latton in an absolute thriller in Clontibret on Saturday evening last. Two points in stoppage time by Ross McKenna and Shane Carey, from a free, seal ed victory for the blues. The game saw the return of team captain Donal Morgan after injury while Darren Hughes and Francis Caulfield made their first appearances in this year’s championship for Scotstown while for… Scotstown 1-18 Latton 1-17

Creative Ireland is the Government’s Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016 – a five-year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy. It is a high-level, high-ambition, all-of-government initiative to mainstream creativity in the life of the nation so that individually and collectively, in our personal lives and in our institutions, we can realise our full creative potential. Creative Ireland is a culture-based programme designed to promote individual, community and national wellbeing. The core proposition is that participation in cultural activity drives personal ...

The first running of the Oliver Brady Memorial Cup open golf competition for ladies and gents proved a huge success. This event held over 36 holes with players playing on Thursday last at Moyvalley in the first 18 holes and then on Saturday on to Rossmore for the final 18 holes. Blessed with glorious sunshine on both days the event lived up to all expectations with all players high in their praise for this new competition run to pay tribute to the late Oliver Brady a highly acclaimed local Monaghan ...

Dublin 2-15 Monaghan 1-15 Monaghan finished their Allianz Football League Division One campaign just outside the top two on score difference after being pipped by Dublin in a thrilling encounter in Clones last Sunday. After leading by a point at half-time, a goal from the outstanding Jack McCarron helped Monaghan move six clear, but Dublin substitutes Bernard Brogan and Jack McCaffrey found the net to turn the game. Monaghan led for the bulk of the game, but the Dubs timed their run to perfection; taking the lead for the first time on 70 ...

Kevin Carney In the same weekend that Hollywood’s film industry captured the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Monaghan’s senior footballer produced yet another blockbuster Broadway affair down in the Kingdom. O’Rourke and co have become something akin to serial winners in the deep south and last Sunday, Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney morphed into a dreamscape for the second successive season as Kerry were downed (1-10 to 2-8) in a topsy-turvy NFL Division One clash. In looking ahead here last week to the Kerry game, we felt that Monaghan could go toe-to-toe with ...

“Each of us can help to enable those leaving direct provision to integrate successfully into our society,” David Stanton TD, Minister of State for Justice with special responsibility for Equality, Immigration and Integration, said yesterday. The Minister was speaking at the launch of an Irish Refugee Council study, “Transitioning: from Direct Provision to Life in the Community.” The Minister said, “The study reminds us that we need to take action to promote integration. Integration needs to work for refugees, for those leaving the direct provision system but also for the communities ...