REQUEST FOR ROADS LEADING INTO DIAMOND TO BE CLOSED FOR COUNTRY MUSIC...
A request by the organisers of July’s Monaghan Town Country Music Festival to have public roads leading into and out of The Diamond closed for extended periods on the four days of the event has been...
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FLYING HIGH
FLYING HIGH: Pictured is Clontibret lady Siobhan Hartigan in mid-flight during a skydive she completed last weekend to raise funds for the Peamount Hospital, Dublin . Siobhan, who suffers from...
View ArticleIDA SLAMMED FOR POOR JOB CREATION PERFORMANCE IN MONAGHAN
Monaghan Co Council are to seek a meeting with Minister for Enterprise Richard Bruton and top IDA officials following the publication of statistics that reveal that the jobs agency created only three...
View ArticleJUDGE APOLOGISES FOR LATE COURT START
By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie A DISTRICT COURT hearing that started over three hours after the scheduled time was told by the judge that he was sorry for the delay, but that it had...
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MATRIMONY AT THE MARKET HOUSE!
Monaghan Town’s Market House has been registered as an office for the performance of civil marriages, Acting Co Manager David Fallon informed the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday. Mr Fallon...
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GARDAI AND REVENUE OFFICERS SWOOP ON ILLEGAL FUEL PLANT AT BLAYNEY
GARDAI, including members of the Armed Response Unit, were involved along with Revenue officers early yesterday (Wednesday) in a major swoop on an illicit fuel laundering plant in Co. Monaghan, close...
View ArticlePAYBACK NEEDED FROM THE BANKS
The banks, according to Fianna Fáil member of Monaghan Co Council Pádraig McNally this week, are getting away with murder. Colr McNally’s comment, made during the course of a debate which called into...
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ORIEL SAILING CLUB TAKES TO THE WATER FOR FIRST TIME
Learning the ropes: Left to Right: Michael Cronin, Noel McKenna, Kevin McCann, Dave Thom, Bernie O’Hanrahan and Emma Jane McKennaLast Sunday, 26th May was an auspicious date for the newly-formed...
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MONAGHAN MAKE THE SEMI’S
Monaghan 4-20 Antrim 3-06 By JOHN GRAHAM AS THE winners of the Ulster Minor football league Monaghan went into this Ulster Minor Championship Quarter Final encounter carrying the tag of favourites and...
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INVESTEC SIGN NEW SPONSORSHIP DEAL …
By COLM SHALVEY The new Monaghan jerseys were launched in front of a sizable crowd in the Hillgrove Hotel last Thursday night. As well as Michael Cullen, CEO of the Irish arm of sponsor Investec, the...
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BALLYBAY STUDENT TAKES TOP PRIZE AT NATIONAL CAREER SKILLS AWARDS 2013
BALLYBAY Community College student David Wacks has come top of the class nationally in the Transition Year category of the National Career Skills Awards 2013, for his exploration of careers as an...
View ArticleHUGE CANNABIS ‘GROW HOUSE’ FOUND AT ‘BLAYNEY
By PATSY McARDLE GARDAI, including members of the National Drugs’ Unit and the Cavan/Monaghan Garda Drugs’ team, swooped last Thursday on a premises near Castleblayney, where a huge illicit cannabis...
View ArticleCLONES COURTHOUSE CLOSURE LOOMING
The Northern Standard has learned that the Building Committee of the Courts Service held a meeting on May 16th whereupon it agreed to recommend the closure of the Clones Courthouse venue, and the...
View ArticleCRIMINAL ACTIVITIES BY NON-NATIONALS GENERATE STRONG VIEWS AT TOWN COUNCIL...
A call was made at last week’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council for tougher assessment procedures to be introduced in Ireland to prevent foreign nationals with criminal records from entering the...
View ArticleFUEL TANKER SEIZED NEAR ‘BLAYNEY IS ‘RESCUED’ FROM ARMY BASE!
By PATSY McARDLE A huge cross-border probe is under way this week, involving the gardai and the PSNI, after the dramatic “rescue” in the early hours of last Sunday morning of a fuel tanker containing...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: MONAGHAN GENERAL HOSPITAL – THE FUTURE?
‘Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight for your hospital and we, Fine Gael, will fight with you for your services’ – that is what we heard from the now Minister for Health when he stood on the steps of the...
View ArticleCHILDCARE CONCERN
Footage showing emotional and physical mistreatment of children in three crèches in Dublin and Wicklow will have shocked and appalled those who watched Tuesday night’s Prime Time investigation...
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CHAMPIONSHIP ECSTASY OR AGONY ?
BY JOHN GRAHAM Ulster Senior Football Championship Quarter Final So can Monaghan build on their success in winning Division 3 of the Allianz Football league? There is every indication that they can as...
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ANTRIM BOSS SAYS PRESSURE IS ALL ON LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
Frank Dawson: “We’re really looking forward to the contest and while we’re under no illusions about the size of the task facing us, Monaghan won’t get anything easy.” by KEVIN CARNEY The GAA’s ‘nothing...
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