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Three hundred Transition Year students from schools in Carrickmacross, Castleblayney and Ballybay attended a road safety awareness programme in Iontas, Castleblayney on Tuesday. Emergency personnel including representatives from the gardai, fire and ambulance services presented to the students the stark reality of dealing with road traffic crashes and how they impact on lives. Pictured at this event are L – R Sergeant in charge of traffic units in Carrickmacross and Monaghan, Tony Campbell, Monaghan Co Council’s Chief Executive Eamon O’Sullivan and Sergeant Niall Leech. Full story and more photos ...

Sinn Féin MEPs Martina Anderson and Matt Carthy will be bringing a task force of MEPs from the European Parliament to Ireland this week on a fact finding mission to see at first hand the impact Brexit will have on Ireland, North and South.    The delegation will be made up of MEPs from the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament and will visit Monaghan, Louth and Armagh to learn how disastrous the British government’s Brexit agenda will be for border areas in particular.    The MEPs will meet with local councillors and representatives of councils ...

The platform party at the Monaghan Town St Patrick’s Day Parade were (L-R) Donal McElwaine, Monaghan Municipal District, Cllr Sean Conlon, Mayor of Douglas Councillor, John Skinner, Cllr Seamus Treanor, Mayoress of Douglas, Mrs Gillian Skinner, Cllr David Maxwell, Cathaoirleach, Monaghan Municipal District, Monsignor Joseph McGuinness, Supt Noel Cunningham, Trevor Connolly, Monaghan Retail Manager and Alan Johnston, chairman, Monaghan Town Team. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

MONAGHAN GOES GREEN: St Patrick’s Church and Monaghan Courthouse, which were both lit up green for the St Patrick’s celebrations in the town last week. ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

Texaco Children’s Art Competition adjudicator Colleen Watters pictured during judging of entries in this year’s competition, the results of which will be announced mid-April. In her hand is an entry by 16-year old Lauren McKenna entitled ‘My vivid imagination’ and two others by her 18-year old sister Rachel McKenna, entitled ‘Ashton Irwin’ and ‘Ed Sheeran’. Both are pupils at St. Louis Secondary School, Monaghan Town. Prizes will be presented at a ceremony that takes place in Dublin in May.

Monaghan will hope to remain touch at the top of the Allianz National Football League Division One when they travel to Ballyshannon to face Donegal on Sunday. Last Sunday’s game against Roscommon saw Monaghan return to winning ways and earn a third victory from five, leaving them in a four-way tie for top spot. Donegal are one of the three teams sharing that position with Monaghan, having surprised many by going unbeaten in their last four …

Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney fell short in their bid to win a second MacLarnon Cup in three years and to keep the title in Monaghan for the third consecutive campaign when they lost to St. Ciarán’s College, Ballygawley in an entertaining decider at the Athletic Grounds last Friday. Goals in the first quarter by James Wilson and David Hanley gave Our Lady’s a narrow lead, but they were never able to pull away with the wind at their backs and St. Ciarán’s won the second half by 1-8 to ...

Michael Fisher A well-known home decoration and paint shop in Monaghan town was badly damaged in an intense fire early on Friday morning that caused traffic disruption. It was a major setback for the McAdam family, who started up Albany home décor nearly fifty years ago and have served thousands of customers in that time.   The outbreak was one of the largest ever that the fire service in Monaghan has had to cope with. It began in the three-storey building close to the Market House shortly after 2.30am. The area around Market ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE saga which has continued over the necessity for a full investigation into all the circumstances of the tragic death of a young South Monaghan law student in a hit-and-run—while he was cycling, near Carrickmacross more than five years ago—-has led to a further call by Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin T.D., to An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D., for a Commission of Inquiry to be set up to probe the fatality. It was confirmed that the Fianna Fáil leader has written directly to ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie IRISH Coastguard pilot Dara Fitzpatrick, who died tragically in the air-sea rescue helicopter crash off the Mayo coast early on Tuesday morning, had strong connections with Cootehill and Co Cavan, the Northern Standard can confirm. Many tributes have been paid to 45-year-old Captain Fitzpatrick, who was one of four crew members aboard the Dublin-based Sikorsky S-92 helicopter that went down shortly before 1am. Chief pilot Mark Duffy from Dundalk, Co Louth and winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith from north Co Dublin were still missing as we went ...