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A new “Stepping Back In Time” street exhibition has been put in place in Monaghan Town in an initiative implemented by Monaghan Co Museum. A total of twenty images of vistas and views of locations in the county capital have been prominently erected in their modern day sites, allowing the viewer to contrast the past appearance of their locale with the present and partake in the time-travel journey of the display’s title. What is described as a “permanent outreach project exhibition” has been drawn from the Co Museum’s postcard collection. ...

 

By PETER HUGHES “What a wonderful night to be in Monaghan!” Jimmy Buckley’s declaration at the outset of his high-octane performance on the stage of the Monaghan Country Music Festival on Sunday simply said it all. The final night of the big music event, blessed with perfect weather after three wet and glowering precedents, received the added benediction of the appearance of the Monaghan football team that earlier had wrested the Ulster title from Donegal in an epic, nerve-fraying encounter in St Tiernach’s Park in Clones. By the time the players and their mentors ...

By Michael Fisher Town of Monaghan Co-Op is to enter a new era in September following the virtually unanimous approval on Tuesday of its merger with the Ballyrashane Co-Op in North Antrim. The new company to be known as LacPatrick is said to be a platform for growth, against a backdrop of a challenging global market. It is described by the two elements as a ‘game-changing’ merger, which includes plans for further significant new investment later this year at Artigarvan near Strabane as a critical part of the new Co-op’s growth ...

Margaret McCabe from Lisacullion, Shantonagh, Castleblayney was the lucky winner of the holiday to Turkey competition run by The Northern Standard in association with Sunway Holidays and O’Hanrahan Travel to mark the launch of our new e-paper. She and a companion will enjoy a week’s stay in the four-star Golden Day Wings Hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey later in the summer. Pictured by Rory Geary at the prize presentation are Maria McCabe, daughter of prizewinner Margaret (who is seen second from left), Mark Clifford from O’Hanrahan Travel and Anne Watterson of ...

The 2015 Gum Litter Taskforce (GLT) gum litter education campaign was launched in Carrickmacross this week by Cathoirleach of Monaghan County Council Cllr. Noel Keelan. The launch follows an agreement between the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government and Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) representing the gum industry, to fund a national gum litter awareness programme from 2015 – 2017. The agreement includes new agreed mechanisms to further enhance and reinvigorate the campaign and represents a multi-million euro commitment by industry to tackling the issue of littered gum. The initiative ...

The training is all done, the hours of hard slog and personal gym work have been put in and all of the bodies on the two panels for Sunday’s Ulster final are in tiptop shape and ready for what will be a draining encounter, both physically and mentally, as they battle it out to take possession of the Anglo Celt Cup over the winter. Both managers have fine-tuned their tactics and will have been working on eradicating niggling errors and other frustrating things that peppered their games in the championship so ...

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie AN ORDER restraining Mr Feargal Deery of Drumhillock, Monaghan, from entering the premises formerly known as ‘Master Deery’s’ at 27/28 Market Street, Monaghan was granted at the High Court on Tuesday of this week, on foot of an application made on behalf of a company known as Wardglade Ltd, whose registered address is at Dunoge, Carrrickmacross, Co Monaghan. In making its application to the hearing presided over by Mr Justice Paul Gilligan, Wardglade Ltd had stated in an affidavit that Mr Deery had unlawfully entered and occupied the premises ...

Packie Bonner, the man who entered the annals of Irish sporting legend with his goalkeeping heroics for the Republic of Ireland soccer team, made a big impact with his young fans at last Saturday’s official opening of the astro pitches development at Knockatallon. A full report and more pictures from this signal event for the North Monaghan community will appear in next week’s edition. Photo ©Rory Geary/The Northern Standard

Bishop of Clogher Most Rev Liam MacDaid officiated at the ordination in St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town on Sunday last of Fr Leo Creelman. Fr Creelman (51) is a native of Coleraine in County Derry. He is one of nine children, five daughters and four sons of Harry and Philomena Creelman. Leo was educated at Dominican College, Portstewart and then obtained a degree in Accountancy and Economics from Queens University Belfast. After working in the family business, Leo embarked upon a very successful career as an entrepreneur and businessman both in ...