Articles in the General News Category

CASE ADJOURNED AS JUDGE SEEKS CLARIFICATION ON WHETHER TWO NOTICES WERE SENT OUT A WOMAN who told last week’s sitting of Monaghan District Court that she received no notices in the post about two speeding offences she allegedly committed on the same day had her case adjourned until 13th March, so that confirmation could be obtained as to whether the notices would have been posted separately or together. In instances where respondents have sworn on oath that they did not get the fixed charge in the post — and therefore did not ...

Charles Gavan Duffy, politician, barrister, author and publisher was born on Monaghan Town on April 12th 1816. His bicentenary was somewhat overshadowed last year by the 1916 centenary so members of a subcommittee of Monaghan Tidy Towns are looking for your help in organising some celebrations and events to mark the life of one of the most important historical figures in Ireland’s history. Committee Secretary Emer Brennan said, “We see other towns and villages making good use of their historical figures to promote heritage and tourism, for example Glenties ...

In October 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 accumulatively walked a little over 20,000 kilometres (halfway across the world!!!).   We will be profiling the schools involved in our programme over the coming weeks; our third school is Scoil Mhuire school, Magherarney.  There are 101 pupils in Scoil Mhuire spread across all classes from junior infants to sixth class taking part in our programme.  What the teachers of Scoil ...

Beware the wounded beast, might well be the maxim for Monaghan when they travel to the Kingdom to take on a Kerry side that will still be hurting from their defeat by Mayo last time out. Kerry had started the league with a flourish, full of running and inventive football to take the 2 points in their opening game away to Donegal in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny, and while one point was the margin at the finish in that one it did not reflect Kerry’s superiority for the bulk ...

Kevin Carney Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice felt bruised as he surveyed the wreakage of his side’s 1-10 to 0-15 defeat to Mayo last time out in the NFL. This Sunday, Monaghan fans will be hoping it’ll be a case of a bruised and a battered Fitzmaurice circa 3.30pm after his side host Malachy O’Rourke’s men. This weekend’s clash is more important than an ordinary third round fixture might suggest ‘cause the eventual winner will have cause to be entitled to look towards the summit while the loser will be hard pressed not to ...

But Minister Humphreys absent and criticises Fianna Fáil for ‘grandstanding’ These are tense times in the Dáil. On Tuesday evening deputies were dealing with “statements of clarification on statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers” over the Garda Maurice McCabe case. Minister Heather Humphreys was present in the Dáil earlier when the Taoiseach answered questions in relation to Maurice McCabe during Leaders’ Questions. But by 9pm when the order of business moved on to a private members motion put forward by Fianna Fáil on the North/South interconnector, the Fine Gael Deputy for ...

A 21-year-old woman who was arrested by Gardaí at Dublin Airport after her return from the United States was remanded in custody at a sitting of the District Court in Carrickmacross yesterday (Wednesday) on a charge of alleged dangerous driving, causing the death of a man in a traffic accident near the Border nearly five years ago. Coleen McCann, with an address at Drumacon, Castleblayney, was refused bail by Judge Denis McLoughlin after a Detective-Garda told the court he believed she would be a “flight risk”. Detective-Garda John Ogle, Carrickmacross, said ...

The cost of repairing the local roads in Co Monaghan is approximately €40 million. The exact quantification of the cost of repair, provided to the February meeting of Monaghan Co Council in response to a question submitted by Fianna Fáil representative Seamus Coyle, is €39,849,455. The breakdown of this figure per Municipal District area is: Monaghan, €9,906,480; Ballybay-Clones, €14,589,440; Carrickmacross-Castleblayney, €15,353,535. “The total cost of restoring the local road network currently identified is approximately €40 million and will take nine-ten years to complete based on current levels of funding,” Councillor Coyle was informed ...

Last year of leukaemia treatment for brave little ‘Blayney boy By Cianna McNally A Monaghan child who has been affectionately dubbed Ireland’s youngest garda is off to New York next month to march in the city’s St Patrick’s Day parade. Four-year-old Ceejay McArdle, who is son of Susan Brown and Marcus McArdle from Castleblayney, is currently in his last year of treatment for leukaemia. Heartwarmingly, he has been invited to New York by the NYPD Emerald Society to march with gardaí in the parade and will spend five days in the ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE family of a young Co. Monaghan law student who was killed by a hit-and-run driver as he cycled on the main N2 Dublin/Derry Road near his home have claimed that “successive garda failures” in the Cavan/Monaghan Division contributed to the death. Yesterday (Tues) Mrs. Lucia O’Farrell of Carrickmacross, claimed that despite the case being referred at the time to the Garda Ombudsman relating to the death of her son, Shane O’Farrell, “no effective action was taken”. The claim came as a decision was ...