MONAGHAN BIOCONNECT PROJECT ONE STEP CLOSER AS TENDER PROCESS LAUNCHED
BioConnect Innovation Centre CLG announced this week that it was seeking tenders from building contractors to construct its new 1,639 square metre research and innovation centre situated along the...
View ArticleDEPARTMENT CONFIRMS NO PLANS FOR DIRECT PROVISION CENTRE IN BALLYBAY
Michael Fisher The government Department responsible for integration has said there are no plans to convert the former Riverdale Hotel in Ballybay into a Direct Provision Centre for asylum seekers and...
View ArticleHELPING MONAGHAN’S COVID-19 RECOVERY IS DECLARED AIM OF COUNTY COUNCIL’S 2021...
Monaghan Co Council on Tuesday morning adopted a Budget for 2021 designed to position the local authority to contribute to the economic and social recovery of Co Monaghan from the impact of the...
View ArticleMONAGHAN TOWN NATIVE PETER MCKENNA NAMED UK CHEF OF THE YEAR
By Veronica Corr Monaghan Town was celebrating one of its most accomplished sons as we went to press yesterday (Wednesday), Peter McKenna, who was announced as being UK Chef of the Year 2020 in The...
View ArticleLOCAL IRELAND/NATIONAL LOTTERY MEDIA AWARDS VIDEO
http://www.northernstandard.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Local-Ireland-Awards-2020.mp4 Superb Journalism and strong advertising win again! “This has been a year like no other. The Corona virus...
View ArticleMONAGHAN CLUBS GET TEXACO SUPPORT FOR SPORT’ REMINDER
A reminder has been issued to registered sports clubs in Co. Monaghan that the 31st December closing date for receipt of completed applications under the Texaco Support for Sport club funding...
View ArticleSILVER TURNS GOLD! –
Prestigious sustainability distinction for Monaghan food enterprise Emyvale’s Silver Hill Duck food enterprise have been conferred the prestigious title of Origin Green Gold Member because of its...
View ArticleSMITHBORO’S BATTLING BROTHERS TO SHARE THE BILL IN MAJOR LONDON PRO BOXING...
Smithboro’s professional boxing brothers Stevie and Aaron McKenna will fight on the same bill for the first time in London on Friday December 11 next. The “baby-faced Irish terrors” as they have been...
View ArticleENTERPRISE CENTRES IN ‘BLAYNEY AND MONAGHAN GET FINANCIAL BOOST
Significant funding for Castleblayney Community Enterprise CLG and the Monaghan Co Enterprise Fund was announced by the Government this week. The Castleblayney group is to get €45,760 while the county...
View ArticleDEPARTMENT CONFIRMS DETECTION OF BIRD FLU IN COUNTY MONAGHAN
The Department of Agriculture yesterday confirmed that a strain of avian influenza had been detected in a mute swan in Co Monaghan. The Department said that highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype...
View ArticleBORDER FOOD SECTOR CALLS FOR INTENSIVE EFFORTS TO BANISH BREXIT MEAT PRODUCT...
Food producers in Co Monaghan and across the Border region have called for intensive efforts to stave off the threat of a UK-Ireland meat product ban that has emerged as talks between the UK and the EU...
View ArticleMONAGHAN’S CATHERINE FLOOD HONOURED AS COMMUNITY CHAMPION BY IRISH ECHO...
Well-known North Monaghan woman Catherine Flood has been honoured by the Irish Echo newspaper for her contribution to the Irish-American community in New York. Catherine was one of those chosen as a...
View ArticleBISHOP DUFFY CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO EASE MASS ATTENDANCE RESTRICTIONS IN NEW...
Catholic Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy has called on the Government to allow people to resume the celebration of Mass when changes are made to the current Level 5 Covid- 19 restrictions at the...
View ArticleCLONTIBRET BROTHERS SHINE A LIGHT FOR BLOODY SUNDAY VICTIMS
The appeal by GAA President John Horan for members of the Association to light a candle on Saturday last, November 21 as a memorial to the 14 people who lost their lives in Croke Park in the events of...
View ArticlePATRICK KAVANAGH CENTRE WINS EUROPEAN HERITAGE IN MOTION AWARD
By Veronica Corr The newly-renovated Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen Village this week found itself in the European spotlight for all the right reasons, having won a Heritage in Motion award for...
View ArticleDONNELLY DEPARTS MONAGHAN
COLM SHALVEY Peter Donnelly (PICTURED) has returned to the Tyrone senior football set-up just over a year after joining Séamus McEnaney’s back-room team in Monaghan. The addition of the Coalisland man,...
View ArticleKARATE WORLD CHAMPION
HAPPY DAYS: Clodagh Kelly from Smithborough, who won the world I.J.K.A Karate championships in Cork, is back training after lockdown. PICTURE © PHILIP FITZPATRICK
View ArticleSTAY LOCAL, SHOP LOCAL
…the mantra as resilient Monaghan Town businesses gear up for crucial Christmas trading period The annual refrain for the Monaghan shopping public to stay loyal to local business during the crucial...
View Article3,773 PEOPLE IN CO MONAGHAN RECEIVE PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT ARREARS
€1,768,716 in arrears under the Pandemic Unemployment Payment was paid out this week to 3,773 people living in Co Monaghan. The payments were confirmed this week by Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD and...
View ArticleDEPARTMENT URGES CO MONAGHAN POULTRY FARMERS TO IMPLEMENT ENHANCED BIRD FLU...
The Department of Agriculture has announced the introduction of enhanced biosecurity regulations under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 requiring keepers of poultry flocks to apply particular...
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