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POSTMASTERS PROTEST AT GPO TO RESIST POST OFFICE CLOSURES
Call on Political Parties to fulfil election promises Postmasters protested outside the GPO last week saying that they will resist any Post Office closures driven by An Post, and are to mobilise a...
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TRIBUTES TO MARTIN MCGUINNESS OF SINN FÉIN
Funeral of former deputy NI First Minister in Derry Michael Fisher “My heart lies in the Bogside and with the people of Derry”. The words of Martin McGuinness during one of his last public appearances...
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NEW SECURITY LINK-UP WILL HELP CRACKDOWN ON CROSS-BORDER DOLE FRAUDSTERS
By PATSY McARDLE THE signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Private Security Authority and the Department of Social Protection is being seen this week as a major move towards enabling a...
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COMBILIFT SIGNS €1M CONTRACT
Combilift, the Irish manufacturer of multi-directional forklifts based in Monaghan has signed a contract with Kingfisher, Europe’s largest home improvement retailer worth an additional €1m to deliver...
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RAPE AND SEX ABUSE SIBLINGS SPEAK OF THEIR HORROR AS 49-YEAR-OLD MAN JAILED...
THE brothers and sisters who were victims of a litany of sex offences, including rape, carried out on them by a man living in the Cootehill area have called on anyone who has had similar horrific...
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CEEJAY’S NEW YORK TRIP WAS ONE TO REMEMBER!
By Cianna McNally To say that Ceejay McArdle’s trip to New York was one to remember is putting it mildly! As previously reported in The Northern Standard, four-year-old Ceejay from Castleblayney who...
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MONAGHAN CREDIT UNION CAR WINNER
Catherine Duffy, centre, from Monaghan Town, who was the winner of a car in the Monaghan Credit Union customer car draw is pictured receiving the keys to a new Ford Fiesta from John Bogue, John Bogue...
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MONAGHAN SCHOOLS ‘WALK THE EARTH’
In 2016, Monaghan Sports Partnership launched the ‘Walk the Earth’ programme for primary schools in County Monaghan. From October 2016 to January 2017, over 800 pupils in 11 primary schools have...
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DON’T TELL THE BRIDE “A ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS” FOR MONAGHAN’S LIZA AND DEAN!
By Cianna McNally Appearing on RTE TV’s Don’t Tell the Bride was a surreal experience, according to Monaghan couple Liza and Dean Watkin who spoke to The Northern Standard following the broadcast of...
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BUS ÉIREANN STRIKE CONTINUES
Michael Fisher Bus Éireann drivers in Monaghan are entering the seventh day of an indefinite strike that continues to affect all of the semi-state company’s Expressway and other services, with the...
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A FINAL JOURNEY ALONG RAGLAN ROAD –
Significant Monaghan elements to Martin McGuinness funeral Patrick Kavanagh’s Raglan Road provided an elegiac element to the funeral of former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness,...
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NEW IDEAS NEEDED TO BOOST BALLYBAY
– Strong call made for government support By Cianna McNally “Somebody needs to call ‘stop’. We can’t afford to let the government off the hook in relation to towns like Ballybay or else we may just...
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WILL CARRICK GET ITS LONG-AWAITED PUBLIC POOL?
By Veronica Corr This week Eileen Treacy, the new owner of the hotel formerly known as The Oasis and more recently The Carrick Court Hotel in the townland of Lossetts, revealed her plans to The...
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COYLE GETS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND LENGTHY DRIVING BAN
POPULAR COUNTY COUNCILLOR WAS DRIVING WHILE ALREADY DISQUALIFIED, COURT HEARS HIGH-PROFILE, mid-Monaghan-based public representative Seamus Coyle was given 240 hours’ community service in lieu of a...
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ULSTER BANK TO CLOSE CARRICKMACROSS COOTEHILL BRANCHES
• Arva branch also included in restructuring plans Ulster Bank announced on Thursday last that it plans to close its branches in Carrickmacross and Cootehill by the end of September. The Ulster Bank in...
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UK MOVES FORMALLY TO WITHDRAW FROM EU
‘NO TURNING BACK’: THERESA MAY ARTICLE 50 PROCESS WILL TAKE TWO YEARS Michael Fisher It’s the beginning of a process that will lead to a changed relationship with the United Kingdom and could have...
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INCLUSIVE WALKING PROGRAMME STEPS AHEAD
Monaghan Sports Partnership Sports Inclusion programme recently organised a 4 walking programme for adults with a disability. The programme took place at Rooskey and allowed participants the...
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• CARRICK INQUEST LINK TO HORRIFIC MURDER OF DUBLIN VICTIM
By PATSY McARDLE AN inquest in Carrickmacross last Thursday revealed how the death of a Dublin man at a flat in the South Monaghan town was linked to the gruesome death of the man’s brother whose body...
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JOBS BOOST ON ITS WAY FOR CO MONAGHAN
Bio-marine Ingredients plant to begin production in May By Cianna McNally Twenty-five new jobs are set to be created in Lough Egish when a new state-of-the-art food processing plant begins production...
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DEPUTY SMYTH SECURES PROGRESS ON ANOMALY SCANS FOR CAVAN GENERAL HOSPITAL
Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan Niamh Smyth is welcoming progress on the roll out of anomaly scans to pregnant women at Cavan General Hospital. Deputy Smyth has been campaigning to extend anomaly...
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