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BOXING: DOOHAMLET GIRL DERVLA DUFFY TAKES NATIONAL TITLE
The National Stadium was packed to capacity on Friday night 22nd February for the biggest card of Amateur boxers in Irish boxing history. World and Olympic medallists Katie Taylor, Kenny Egan, Michael...
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HURLING: MONAGHAN SUFFER HEAVY DEFEAT AGAINST DONEGAL
Donegal 3-18 Monaghan 1-06 IF 2012 was a painful year for the Monaghan hurlers, 2013 could be equally as sore given that they were left all at sea by a rampant Donegal side in a game that turned into a...
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COMMUNITY GROUPS ASK MINISTER TO THINK AGAIN ON ALIGNMENT PROPOSALS
“As far as I can see, this is taking power away from the people, not bringing it back to them and our children will not thank us if we let it happen” was the comment that seemed to capture the mood of...
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PAPAL NUNCIO ACCORDED CIVIC HONOURS IN CASTLEBLAYNEY
MAYOR of Castleblayney Colr Aidan Campbell, who was joined by the Mayor of Co Monaghan, Colr Hugh McElvaney and members and officials of Monaghan Co Council and Castleblayney Town Council as well as...
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RUGBY TEAM’S VISIT GIVES NEW DIMENSION TO MONAGHAN-CANADA LINK
A new sporting dimension to the strong and still evolving bonds forged between Co Monaghan and those of Monaghan descent in Canada will be marked next month with the visit of the Miramichi Valley High...
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LOCAL POLITICIANS’ MESSAGE TO MINISTER: “REFORM CERTAINLY; ABOLITION NO WAY!”
A CLONES town councillor this week stated that the abolition of town councils will greatly reduce the number of women entering politics. Under proposals from the Minister for the Environment Phil...
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BACKLASH NEEDED AS SLIGO COME TO CLONES WITH VITAL POINTS AT STAKE
Nothing less than a win on Sunday will do if Monaghan’s promotion bid is to get back on track. Mnaghan are unbeaten on home soil since Kerry won in Inniskeen on 2011. by COLM SHALVEY After a decidedly...
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MONAGHAN SCOR NA NOG CELEBRATE ON THE DOUBLE
It was celebrations on the double in Derry on Saturday evening last as Monaghan’s two entrants in the All Ireland final of Scor na nOg both brought titles back to the county, the first time that two...
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MONAGHAN MEN RENEW A FIERCE RIVALRY IN BID FOR VALUABLE POINTS
St Paul’s 2-12 St Macartan’s 1-06 BY JOHN GRAHAM A PLACE in the MacRory Cup Final in the year when the college celebrated 100 years of gaelic games in the Sem proved a bridge too far for St Macartan’s...
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JUDGE LEADS TRIBUTES TO GARDA INSPECTOR PAT MCMORROW
michael@northern-standard.ie WARM tributes were paid to Garda Inspector Pat McMorrow at Monaghan District Court on Monday, where it was confirmed that the Roscommon native, who joined the gardai in...
View ArticleONLY LIMITED NUMBER OF UNFINISHED ESTATES TO BENEFIT FROM PROPERTY TAX WAIVER
Monaghan Co Council was told on Monday that only a limited number of unfinished housing estates in the county would benefit from a property tax waiver under stringent qualification regulations in this...
View ArticlePOOR ROADS AGAIN A PROBLEM IN CO MONAGHAN!
The spectre of a crumbling county road structure has returned to haunt Monaghan Co Council. Debates about poor roads were a staple of local authority business down recent decades until a steady...
View ArticleFALL IN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IS DAMAGING MONAGHAN FOOD SECTOR SAYS MCNALLY
A number of Monaghan food industries were suffering severely because of the lack of confidence by consumers, and many workers in the sector were now on a three-day week, Fianna Fáil councillor Pádraig...
View Article‘BLAYNEY MAN MAKES LEGAL HISTORY
By PATSY McARDLE A CASTLEBLAYNEY man has made legal history in the area, by succeeding in a High Court Judicial Review to quash an Order by a District Court judge in which a conviction was imposed,...
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RUGBY STAR’S ACTRESS WIFE IN… HUGE BOOST FOR ‘BLAYNEY SHOE MARKETING FIRM
By PATSY McARDLE CASTLEBLAYNEY Shoe City Group is to receive a huge marketing boost in the coming weeks thanks to the wife of former British and Irish Lions’ rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll....
View ArticleBALLYBAY MEAT FIRM USED UNAPPROVED SUPPLIERS, HEARING TOLD
Silvercrest Foods in Ballybay, one of the companies which has found itself at the centre of the ongoing horsemeat controversy, had used non-approved suppliers, a House of Commons Committee hearing was...
View ArticleA CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
Perhaps the most important issue among the many discussed at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council was the crisis in public confidence which is impacting adversely on many aspects of the food sector...
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O HANLON WINS GLASLOUGH HARRIERS 5K
The annual Glaslough Harriers Road Races took place in cold and at times wintry conditions on Sunday last. As always there was a very good turnout for both the juvenile races and the Senior Open 5k....
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