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GROUNDZERO360: POIGNANT 9/11 PANORAMA ON VIEW IN MARKET HOUSE
By Cianna McNally ‘Poignant’ and ‘powerful’ are just two words to describe the GroundZero360 exhibition that was officially opened by Mayor of Co Monaghan Sean Conlon in the Market House, Monaghan last...
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CHAMPIONSHIPS PROMISE ‘POT OF GOLD’ TO ANYONE GOOD ENOUGH
The club championships are hotting up, with Ballybay and Clontibret the front runners so far in the Gormley uPVC Senior Football Championship. by COLM SHALVEY Last year’s Gormley uPVC Senior Football...
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SIX CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES DOWN FOR DECISION AT THE WEEKEND
By John Graham It is beginning to get down to the business end of things in the Gormley uPVC senior football championship with two teams already through to the semi finals but there is still a lot to...
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BALLYBAY IN SEMI’S
Ballybay 2-12 Monaghan Harps 0-11 By JOHN GRAHAM REIGNING champions Ballybay are through to the semi-final of this year’s Gormley uPVC Senior Football championship following their well merited seven...
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ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE AS BLUES FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO DRAW THE CROWDS
By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie MONAGHAN’S 18th Annual Harvest Time Blues festival defied the country’s ongoing economic woes by building on last year’s success and recording...
View ArticlePROTECTING THE FARMING SECTOR
There is an emerging awareness that, although the immediate crisis posed by the adverse impact which bad weather delivered on fodder supplies for farmers has now passed, the effects of that crisis...
View ArticleCO COUNCIL VOTES NO CONFIDENCE IN EIRGRID
A vote of no confidence in the ability of EirGrid to deliver the North-South electricity interconnector project received unanimous support at the September meeting of Monaghan Co Council. However, a...
View ArticleMINOR INJURY UNIT HOURS MUST BE EXTENDED – COLR HAGAN
Fine Gael member of Monaghan Town Council Tommy Hagan this week called for the extension of the hours of operation of the Minor Injury Unit at Monaghan General Hospital. Colr Hagan said that recent...
View ArticleCLONES MAN’S PARALYMPIC AMBITION – APPEAL TO PUBLIC FOR SPONSORSHIP
By Cianna McNally A Clones man is appealing for sponsorship to help him realise his dream of getting on the national Paralympics team. Shane McLaughlin from Clonkeencole had his leg amputated below the...
View ArticleCAN COURT SITTINGS IN CLONES STILL BE SAVED?
There might still be “a window of opportunity” for averting the closure of Clones Courthouse, Sinn Féin councillor Pat Treanor argued at the September meeting of Monaghan Co Council. Colr Treanor noted...
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DOOHAMLET HOST IRISH BOG SNORKELLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE fifth annual ‘Active8’ Bog Snorkelling Championships which were staged last weekend in conjunction with a major festival at Alices’ Loft and Cottages at Doohamlet outside Blayney were a huge...
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TYHOLLAND GRIND IT OUT
Tyholland 3-07 Inniskeen 0-15 BY JOHN GRAHAM TYHOLLAND held out for the narrowest of victories to send Inniskeen crashing out of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship in this very...
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CURRIN CRUISE HOME
Currin 2-13 Clones 1-05 BY JOHN GRAHAM A stronger, more incisive Currin booked their place in the semi-final of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship with relative ease when they had...
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DONAGHMOYNE BEST
Donaghmoyne 1-13 Cremartin 1-10 BY JOHN GRAHAM DONAGHMOYNE staged a strong finish to book their place in the semi-finals of the McGuigan Builders Intermediate Football Championship at Aughnamullen on...
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CLONES SOLICITOR ADMITS TAKING €1.4 MILLION FROM CLIENTS’ ACCOUNTS
WELL-KNOWN Clones-based solicitor Paul Madden has been prohibited from practising and his accounts have been frozen pending an investigation into substantial monies that have been taken from his firm’s...
View ArticleBYE-LAW BANS BEGGING AND COLLECTIONS IN UPPER MILL STREET
Monaghan Town Council on Monday night adopted a new bye-law which deems it unlawful to any person to beg or to conduct any street collection in Upper Mill Street in the town. The measure – advocated in...
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‘HOLE IN THE GROUND’ CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO ECHO!
Monaghan Town’s ‘Hole in the Ground’ may have disappeared but the site of the stalled mixed use development project in the town centre – now in the final stages of restoration to a car-park area –...
View ArticleMAN CHARGED AFTER CROSS-BORDER ILLICIT FUEL PLANTS UNCOVERED IN MONAGHAN
By PATSY McARDLE CROSS-BORDER fuel trafficking racketeers were targeted this week in a major operation launched by the Revenue Service and gardai on Monday. Customs officers supported by gardai from...
View ArticleSICK OF AUSTERITY!
SICK OF AUSTERITY! One of the abiding concerns of parents, teachers and others with responsibility for young people is the problem of childhood obesity. The emergence of sedentary and unhealthy eating...
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