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MUNICIPAL DISTRICT HAILS POSITIVE OUTCOME TO LOBBYING ON AIRPORT ROUTE
PETER HUGHES Bus Éireann hopes to introduce additional Monaghan-Dublin services in the summer months. The information, contained in correspondence circulated at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan...
View ArticleBEWARE OF THE BADGER! – WILDLIFE CONSIDERATIONS COMPLICATE DUNALDRON ROAD...
The repair of a roadway at Dunaldron in the Ardaghey area is being complicated by the presence of a sett of badgers, it emerged at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District. A question on the...
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STRONG OPPOSITION TO PYLONS AS EIRGRID DEFENDS OVERHEAD NORTH/SOUTH...
Michael Fisher As anti-pylon protestors in County Monaghan met in Aughnamullen to express vigorous opposition to the North/South Interconnector plans for overhead power lines, the head of Eigrid has...
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JOSH AND JASON BRING RALLY GLORY BACK HOME
A jubilant Josh Moffett and co-driver Jason McKenna celebrate their home crew victory in last Sunday’s Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Stages Rally. The duo triumphed with just 5.1 seconds to spare after a...
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BOXER CHRISTINA FACES HER BIGGEST CHALLENGE
By Michael Fisher It’s the biggest challenge so far in her professional career for Christina Marks McMahon from Carrickmacross. Ireland’s only female professional boxer will be in the ring in Lusaka on...
View ArticleCOLR KEELAN CONCERNED OVER ACCIDENTS ON THE N2
The large number of road traffic accidents, including fatalities, that have taken place on the N2 national primary route in Co Monaghan prompted the submission of a question by Sinn Féin’s Noel Keelan...
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MINISTER HUMPHREYS VISITS START OF PROJECT WORKS AT ULSTER CANAL
THE Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys visited the start of project works on the Ulster Canal on Friday morning last. She viewed the ground investigation work which is...
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DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
Ulster and Ireland rugby star Tommy Bowe has given his backing to Darkness into Light Monaghan, which takes place in the early hours of Saturday week, May 9. The Monaghan man, who helped third-placed...
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MONAGHAN LADY WINS €10,000 ON CRACK THE CODE GAME ON THE MILLION EURO CHALLENGE
Roberta Graham from Smithboro, Co. Monaghan has won €10,000 the Crack the Code game on the National Lottery’s The Million Euro Challenge game show on RTE on Saturday 25th April 2015. Pictured at the...
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LOCAL RESIDENTS HONOUR A FAMOUS CO. MONAGHAN MOTHER’S SON WHO BECAME NEW YORK...
By PATSY McARDLE A CROSS-BORDER community has erected a plaque to honour the famous son of a Co. Monaghan mother, who hailed from a family at Moyles, Castleshane, to become Archbishop of New York and...
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MORE JOBS FOR CASTLEBLAYNEY
By PATSY McARDLE A LINK-UP between a local community group and a hugely successful family business may pave the way to secure more much needed local jobs in Castleblayney, it emerged this week. There...
View ArticleCATHAOIRLEACH SAYS COUNCILLORS WERE SNUBBED OVER JOBS FORUM IN CARRICKMACROSS
By Michael Fisher Monaghan Councillors especially Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District members have been snubbed by the Department of Jobs, according to the County Council Cathaoirleach,...
View ArticleREFERENDUM DEBATE NEEDED
Although those campaigning on the opposing sides of the argument in relation to the same-sex marriage referendum to be put to the people on May 22 will insist with increasing emphasis otherwise as...
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MONAGHAN COUNTY COUNCIL SUPPORTS PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY THROUGH NATIONAL...
Job Shadow Day, sponsored by IrishJobs.ie is a great opportunity to promote and encourage an inclusive workplace. Jobseekers gain an insight into a particular job or professional field by joining up...
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MONAGHAN LIONS CLUB ANNUAL GOLF CLASSIC
After a weekend of heavy rain the sun came out on our bank holiday Monday for the Monaghan Lions Club Annual Golf Classic in aid of the County Monaghan Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland....
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THE RHYS REIHILL DUFFY HELPING HAND FOUNDATION COMMUNITY RALLIES IN SUPPORT...
By Cianna McNally A number of fundraisers have been organised in support of a child from Clones who was born without a left shoulder and arm. Rhys Reihill Duffy, who will turn five in September, is son...
View ArticleLOCAL MEP WELCOMES EU €1BN VOTE ON JOBS FOR YOUTH
By PATSY McARDLE LOCAL Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands North West, Matt Carthy, has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament during the week to speed up the delivery of Youth Employment Initiative...
View ArticleA THORNY “CROWN”?
Then, happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown Shakespeare’s famous summation of the burdens of command in Henry IV will resonate strongly with the leaders of the political parties...
View ArticleLAKELAND DAIRIES REPORTS INCREASE IN REVENUES AND PROFITS
Construction starts on new €36 million milk powder plant, to open in 2016 The major cross-border dairy processing co-operative Lakeland Dairies has reported a 15% increase in revenues to €625.8 million...
View Article€113,000 SPENT ON POLLUTION THREATS… FURTHER DUMPING OF DIESEL SLUDGE NEAR...
DESPITE continued surveillance by gardai and revenue units along the Monaghan/Armagh border, in an ongoing bid to thwart the continued laundering of diesel by racketeers, a further consignment of...
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