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COMPETITIVE CRICKET RETURNS TO MONAGHAN AFTER 140 YEARS
Sunday July 14th was not only a red letter day in the short history of the fledgling Monaghan Cricket Club, but an historical day in the overall context of the game of cricket and it’s association with...
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MONAGHAN DARES TO DREAM OF DOUBLE OVER THE REIGNING ULSTER CHAMPIONS
“Grab the goals but don’t concede them” will be the game plan that secures the silverware. by COLM SHALVEY Nothing beats being there’, says the advertising slogan from Croke Park and it’s an apt one...
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TIGHT, TACTICAL BATTLE AWAITS MONAGHAN
MONAGHAN V TYRONE John Graham The encounter between Monaghan and Tyrone is going to be another tight, tactical battle, as each side will seek to limit the influence of key players on the opposing team....
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MONAGHAN HOPE TO HOME IN ON MORE BIG MATCH CELEBRATIONS
The big days continue to come for Monaghan with the county’s senior and minor footballers both going in search of places in the All-Ireland semi-finals this weekend.by COLM SHALVEY After winning a...
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NEW PRIEST ORDAINED FOR CLOGHER DIOCESE
St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan on Sunday 28th July for the celebration of the Ordination to the priesthood of Rev. Raymond Donnelly by the Bishop of Clogher, Most Rev Liam MacDaid. This was an...
View ArticleMAN’S 90-MINUTE AMBULANCE WAIT
Renewed calls were made on the Health Service Executive this week for substantial improvement of the emergency medical provision in North Monaghan after a case came to light of a Tyholland man who...
View ArticleCROSS-BORDER FUEL LAUNDERING RAISED IN DAIL
By PATSY McARDLE THE public concern expressed by civic and community leaders and farming organisations in Co. Monaghan, and the adjoining Border counties, over the huge spate of fuel sludge dumping on...
View ArticleCOUNCIL WILL FIGHT TO KEEP ULSTER FINAL IN CLONES
By Cianna McNally Clones Town Council members are prepared to fight to keep the Ulster Final in St Tiernach’s Park. Amid fears that the final will be moved to Casement Park, Belfast members agreed on...
View ArticleMINISTER MUST REOPEN MONAGHAN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICES – COLR HAGAN
A call was made this week on Minister for Health Dr James Reilly to restore an adequate level of emergency service provision at Monaghan General Hospital. The appeal came from Fine Gael member of...
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MONAGHAN’S NCT CENTRE SELLS AT AUCTION FOR €141,000 OVER GUIDE PRICE
SAVILLS Ireland have reported they sold a commercial premises in Monaghan Town at auction in Dublin last Thursday for €361,000, which represented a yield of 7.63% — or a multiple of thirteen times the...
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THE FEEL-GOOD FACTOR
The brilliance of the summer sunshine we have lately enjoyed may have become interrupted by intermittent cloud and rain, but Monaghan people are still basking in the warm glow of the feel-good factor...
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JOHN IS KING OF ROSSMORE WITH TERRIFIC 106
Rossmore Golf Club was en fete on Sunday night last with the world and his mother there to shake the hand of the man who ran Rossmore ragged and who proved yet again that while form is temporary, class...
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THOUSANDS ATTEND NATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATION
Thousands of people from across Ireland and abroad attended the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Monaghan Town last weekend. Picture by Rory Geary shows a section of the huge crowd assembled in...
View ArticleDEPT OF AGRICULTURE BLOCKING RE-OPENING OF COOTEHILL POULTRY PLANT, NEW OWNER...
By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THE buyer of a chicken processing plant in Cootehill has claimed that he is being prevented from re-opening the business — and thereby generating up to...
View ArticleIMPORTS POSE MAJOR THREAT TO LIQUID MILK INDUSTRY
BY PATSY McARDLE THE SERIOUS situation which has arisen over several months in relation to a growing threat to the liquid milk industry in Co. Monaghan, and elsewhere in the Republic, from the growth...
View ArticleQUINN CASE INVESTIGATION: MAN RELEASED IN ‘BLAYNEY MURDER PROBE
A man arrested in North Louth last weekend in connection with the ongoing garda investigation into the death of a 21-years-old South Armagh man, who was beaten to death in a shed near Oram, a few miles...
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AARON IS KING OF THE RING!
European Schoolboys Boxing title winner Aaron McKenna got a hero’s welcome when he returned to Smithboro on Sunday evening. The powerhouse pugilist is pictured by Rory Geary with Monaghan Co Mayor Sean...
View ArticleTHE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
The proportion of attention commanded in recent weeks by instances of serious abuse of the social networking media has prompted renewed calls for tighter regulation of this proliferating channel of...
View ArticleBALLYBAY GARDA WINS GOLD AT WORLD GAMES
A Ballybay-based garda has much to be proud of as she was awarded two gold medal for cycling at the World Police and Fire Games in Belfast last weekend. Garda Eve McCrystal, who hails from Dundalk and...
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