Articles tagged with: Monaghan Co Council

Disappointment was voiced at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council with the lack of response from community groups to the initial consultation process held in relation to the preparation of the new Monaghan Co Development Plan. Following comments by the members in this regard, Senior Planner Adrian Hughes said the planning staff of the Council had also been disappointed with the level of response they had seen from local bodies. While the Co Council had met with the Monaghan Community Forum in relation to the plan, there appeared ...

The members of Co Monaghan Joint Policing Committee on Tuesday supported a proposal from Clones public representative Pat Treanor, seconded by Sheila McKenna, requesting that a letter be sent to the secretariat of the North-South Ministerial Council in relation to persistent instances of dangerous driving being perpetrated by motorists on a stretch of the Cavan Road out of Clones that traverses the Border. It was also agreed on Colr Treanor’s proposal to request the Roads Section of Monaghan Co Council to investigate the possibility of placing more road signage ...

It will take Monaghan Co Council one month to complete its repair programme to the county’s water system following the spate of problems caused by leakages and frozen pipes during the recent cold weather, Acting Co Manager David Fallon informed the Council members at their January meeting on Tuesday. The Acting Manager, who praised the commitment shown by the Co Council staff in reacting to the problems that arose in the water system, said that they had to respond to 1,400 calls and carry out 280 repairs. Mr ...

michael@northern-standard.ie With nervous motorists in Monaghan and Cavan having had to chance their luck since the weekend on extremely dangerous roads that have not been treated by the local authorities, they will not be happy to hear that restrictions on the amount of salt to be spread will remain in place in the coming days, even as more severe weather is expected from today (Thursday) onward. An engineer with Monaghan Co Council confirmed to the Northern Standard yesterday that only national routes are currently being salted, as a result of ...

“The reality for many employers is that the banks are not open for business,” stated Sinn Féin councillor Pat Treanor when Monaghan Co Council at its adjourned October meeting debated the recently launched economic development strategy for the county prepared by the Co Development Board. Colr Treanor said many businesses in the county had opportunities to create further jobs but the banks would not listen to or give support to what were very reasonable proposals. “Just imagine if the billions going into the banks were channelled to the businesspeople in the county ...

Considerable, although not unanimous, opposition was expressed at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council to the introduction of a €2 gate fee charge at the recycling facilities operating at Scotch Corner and Carrickmacross. But the wider issue of the escalating expense of the Council operating a landfill facility at the Scotch Corner location was introduced to the debate by Co Manager Declan Nelson, who stated that the Council were currently conducting an appraisal of the situation to determine the future of landfill operations in the county. The Manager pointed out that the ...

The erection of a barrier at a bridge in Clontibret has provoked an angry response from farmers in the area. This week The Northern Standard was contacted by a farmer, who spoke out on behalf of the six farmers including himself, who either own or rent land in the Glennyhorn Bridge area of Clontibret. The farmers, four of whom own land, and two of whom lease it are protesting at the erection of a height limitation barrier, which they allege was put in place to stop tractors and vehicles higher ...

Monaghan’s county councillors were paid over €1.5 million during 2008 and 2009, according to the latest exposé on monies being paid to local authority members around the country. According to figures published in last Thursday’s Irish Independent, documenting payments to councillors in the Connacht/Ulster region during 2008 and ’09 (which includes a mix of current councillors and those who were on the authority prior to the June 2009 local elections), the former North Monaghan based Fine Gael representative Pat McKenna received the highest amount, coming to €101,592 over the two years. ...

ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE STUDIED, DIRECTOR OF SERVICES AFFIRMS A senior official with Monaghan Co Council has this week sought to allay growing public concerns at proposals for the N2 Clontibret – Border Road Re-alignment Project, and to give assurances that all representations submitted by members of the public on the issue will be taken very seriously. Mr David Fallon, Director of Services for Roads, Environment and Emergency Services with Monaghan Co Council, told the Northern Standard that the council wishes to be “as open as possible” and is keen to receive ...

A €3.91 million funding allocation approved by the Minister for the Environment John Gormley this week was described at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council as having the potential to considerably alleviate the serious flooding problems which intermittently strike the centre of the county capital. The Minister announced on Friday last that he had given approval to Monaghan Co Council to invite tenders for work on the Monaghan Town Sewerage Scheme which would involve the construction of a wastewater pumping station, the provision of an odour control plant at the ...