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INJURED
Monaghan’s Ulster SFC quarter-final win over Fermanagh was in little doubt after Jack McCarron hit the net late in the opening quarter, but they will be sweating over the fitness of veteran duo Conor...
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MONAGHAN CONSTRUCTION FIRM MAKES APPRENTICESHIP APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT
Errigal Contracts investment in training academy reaches €6.5 million The Managing Director of a Monaghan company that has invested €6.5 million in its own training academy has called on the...
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CONROY COMPLETES DUE DILIGENCE DRILLING AT CLONTIBRET GOLD DEPOSIT
Errigal Contracts investment in training academy reaches €6.5 million Conroy Gold and Natural Resources announced on Tuesday that it had completed due diligence drilling in the Clontibret area of Co...
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IFTA AWARD FOR THE LATE NIKA MCGUIGAN
Michael Fisher The late Nika McGuigan, daughter of the Clones Cyclone Barry McGuuigan, was posthumously honoured with the Lead Actress Film award at the Irish Film and Television Academy awards on...
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DECISION TO INCREASE LOCAL PROPERTY TAX BY 15% WON’T MEAN BIGGER BILLS FOR CO...
“The majority of the members of Monaghan Co Council have done the right thing and not the populist thing,” stated Fine Gael councillor Sean Gilliland in reaction to the decision taken at Monday’s...
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COYLE’S INTERCONNECTOR CALL ON SINN FÉIN IN NORTH SPLITS CO COUNCIL
A proposal by Fianna Fáil councillor Seamus Coyle that Sinn Féin make the undergrounding of the north-south interconnector a pre-condition of continued participation in the Northern Ireland Executive...
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SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS
CARMEL DEPARTS CO COUNCIL WITH FLORAL AND VERBAL BOUQUETS Meetings Administrator of Monaghan Co Council Carmel Thornton is presented with a bouquet from the Council’s three female elected...
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MONAGHAN NEEDS TO FIND X-FACTOR TO DUMP OUT RIVALS ARMAGH
Colm Shalvey reports The latest chapter of the Monaghan v Armagh rivalry sees a place in the 2021 Ulster SFC Final go up for grabs in Newry on Saturday afternoon. Both teams go into this derby on the...
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INJURY SETBACKS
Monaghan needs to find X-factor to dump out rivals Armagh Colm Shalvey reports The latest chapter of the Monaghan v Armagh rivalry sees a place in the 2021 Ulster SFC Final go up for grabs in Newry on...
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Extension of Ulster Canal Greenway given “green light” by Co Councillors
The plan to extend the Ulster Canal Greenway from Coolshannagh in Monaghan Town to Ardgonnell Bridge was given a planning “green light” at the July meeting of Monaghan Co Council when the elected...
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YOUNG FOOTBALLER MOURNED AFTER FATAL CLONTIBRET CRASH
Colm Shalvey A weekend in which Monaghan qualified for two Ulster finals would normally be cause for unbridled celebration, but the county was left reeling by the tragic death of U-20 captain Brendan...
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A SPARK OF LIGHT AFTER THE TOUGHEST WEEK
A game “as blistering as the Newry sun” saw Monaghan rise above tragedy to edge closer to Ulster glory – JACK MADDEN was there A minute’s silence where time stood still. Sixty seconds perfectly...
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ALL WELCOME TO ROSSMORE PARK BIOBLITZ THIS SUNDAY
Everyone is welcome to a day of discovering and learning about nature in Rossmore Park this Sunday 25th July as Monaghan Tidy Towns holds the first of two Bioblitzes as part of their work on water...
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STATE AND GAA DIGNITARIES JOIN IN POIGNANT FAREWELL TO ÓGIE
Taoiseach’s Aide de Camp Commandant Caroline Burke joined the attendance in St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town yesterday, Wednesday morning for the Funeral Mass of Brendan Óg “Ógie” Ó Dufaigh,...
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MUSHROOM SECTOR PLIGHT RAISED WITH AGRICULTURE MINISTER DURING MONAGHAN VISIT
Representatives of the CMP or Commercial Mushroom Producers group in Monaghan met with Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue when he visited Monaghan Town on Tuesday of this week. The CMP...
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BORDER COMMUNITIES GROUP CONDEMNS BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S BID TO CHANGE BREXIT...
The Border Communities Against Brexit campaign groups has said that the British Government’s attempts to seek major changes in the Northern Ireland protocol is an attempt to pit the two communities in...
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ADVENTURE BIKING ON SLIABH BEAGH AND ANCESTRY TOURISM GATHERINGS –
Monaghan Co Council received presentations last week pointing to the development of adventure biking trails across the scenic Sliabh Beagh moorland and blanket bog expanse in the Border area, and the...
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NEW BEDS WELCOME – BUT WHAT MONAGHAN HOSPITAL NEEDS ARE DOCTORS AND SERVICES...
Confirmation that 23 new step-down care beds promised for Monaghan Hospital were now all fully operational was welcomed at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. But Sinn Féin...
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TROUBLES “AMNESTY” – MONAGHAN BOMBING CAMPAIGN GROUP CALLS FOR US INTERVENTION
Margaret Urwin of the Justice for the Forgotten campaign group, established in relation to the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Town, has called on the Irish Government to seek the intervention of...
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DEATH OF YOUNG FOOTBALL STAR IN ROAD ACCIDENT PLUNGES MONAGHAN INTO MOURNING
The death on Friday last, July 16 in a road traffic accident of 19-year-old Brendan Óg Ó Dufaigh, the captain of Co Monaghan’s U-20s Gaelic football team, has caused widespread shock and grief...
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