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GARDA CLAMPDOWN SOUGHT ON ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OUTBREAK IN MONAGHAN TOWN
Calls were made at Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District for a forceful Garda clampdown on persistent outbreaks of anti-social behaviour that, councillors claimed, had become a regular...
View Article15 CANDIDATES SEEKING CAVAN/ MONAGHAN’S FOUR
A total of fifteen candidates are placing themselves before the electorate of Cavan/Monaghan in the February 26 General Election. The final list of contenders was finalised last week when the deadline...
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COUNTY MONAGHAN ATHLETICS BOARD AWARDS NIGHT
The Four Season Hotel was the venue for the County Monaghan Athletics Board awards night, which was held on Friday 12th February. Chairperson of the board Alan Clarke welcomed everyone to the event to...
View ArticleCUSTODIAL SENTENCES FOR SCOTSTOWN MAN CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE, ASSAULT...
A Scotstown man convicted in his absence at last week’s Monaghan District Court of criminal damage and assault offences was given custodial sentences when he was brought before Monday’s sittings of the...
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THE PURE STUFF!
Republic soccer boss impressed with Monaghan mineral water company’s expansion plans Republic of Ireland soccer boss Martin O’Neill enjoyed some of the brightest glory days of his managerial career at...
View Article€5 MILLION TO ADDRESS COUNTY MONAGHAN FLOOD-DAMAGED ROADS
Monaghan Co Council has been approved €5 million in funding to repair flood-damaged roads. The money comes from a €106 million national package announced by Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe in...
View Article497 ADDED TO SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTION REGISTER IN CO MONAGHAN
The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has welcomed the fact that 497 people in Monaghan have been added to the supplementary register in advance of tomorrow’s general election, and is calling on...
View ArticleGENERAL ELECTION FEARS…. WILL MID AND SOUTH MONAGHAN BE WITHOUT A TD AFTER...
By PATSY McARDLE On the eve of polling tomorrow (Friday) in Cavan/Monaghan Constituency the demographics of the candidates taking the field in this week’s General Election have created an unusual...
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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS EVENT FOR THE PEACE
Pictured displaying one of the signs promoting positive mental health that will be put on approach roads into Clones this weekend are members of Clones Youth Council and Youth Work Ireland Monaghan...
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PARTIES PREPARE FOR INTERCONNECTOR INQUIRY
Michael Fisher Oral Hearing to Start in Carrickmacross on March 7tH The long-awaited decision by An Bord Pleanála to hold an oral hearing into EirGrid’s plans for a second North/South electricity...
View ArticleFINE GAEL AND SINN FÉIN TO BATTLE IT OUT FOR LAST SEAT IN CAVAN/MONAGHAN
By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie FOR SOME it will have been an interesting diversion, for others an annoying distraction, but either way, the three weeks or so of campaigning in the...
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HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL BENEFITS FROM MCCABE TWINS FUNDRAISER
Members of the organising committee behind the McCabe twins fundraiser this week presented a cheque for €7,500 to The Holy Family School in Cootehill. As previously reported in The Northern Standard,...
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CELEBRATING COMMUNITY LEARNING AND ADULT LITERACY IN COUNTY MONAGHAN WITH CMETB
Cavan and Monaghan ETB’s Community Education and Adult Literacy Graduation took place in the Garage Theatre in Monaghan’s Education Campus on Monday the 22nd February. Deirdre Byrne, Community...
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MONAGHAN HAVE A POINT TO PROVE!
Monaghan face yet another test of their credentials in the Allianz National Football League when they welcome Mayo to Clones on Sunday. by COLM SHALVEY A one-point defeat against Dublin last Saturday...
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DRAGHUNT RACING ENJOYING BORDER COUNTIES RENAISSANCE
Hunting with hounds is still a common sight across the Border counties, even in these days of heightened political correctness where hounds in full cry with noses to the ground trail their quarry...
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FROM A WHISPER TO A ROAR – EXPLORING THE UNTOLD STORY OF MONAGHAN 1916
Monaghan 1916, when the whisper of an Irish Republic exploded into a roar following the bombshell of the Rebellion. A never before told story about the lives of Monaghan people caught up in the Rising...
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NOW, IT’S BODY-WORN VIDEO TECHNOLOGY IN… FRONT-LINE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME
By PATSY McARDLE BODY-WORN video cameras as part of the uniform for those in the front-line of fighting crime are on the way for policemen on both sides of the Border!. Although, so far, no decision on...
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NEW MONAGHAN VOICE IN DÁIL REPRESENTING GREENS IN SOUTH DUBLIN
Michael Fisher A politician originally from Carrickmacross who stood in the general election for the Green Party in Dublin caused a major upset by winning a seat in the new Daíl. Councillor Catherine...
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LOCAL FANS MINGLE WITH THE STARS AT FRAMPTON FIGHT
A large contingent of sports fans from Clones and other parts of Co Monaghan descended upon the Manchester Arena on Saturday night to watch enthralled as Barry McGuigan boxing protégé Carl Frampton...
View ArticleMONAGHAN MAN CLEARED ON OMAGH BOMB CHARGE
By Patsy McArdle A YOUNG Co. Monaghan man, who has already spent two years in custody for alleged involvement in the Omagh bombing in 1998, was cleared of the charges and walked free—to be warmly...
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