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Patricia Kelly from Mullaghmatt, Co. Monaghan has won €37,000 including a car on last Saturdays (4th July 2015) National Lottery Winning Streak game show on RTE.  Pictured here at the presentation of the winning cheques were from left to right: Marty Whelan, Winning Streak game show co-host; Patricia Kelly, the winning player; Peter Plunkett, Head of I.T at the National Lottery who made the presentation and Sinead Kennedy, Winning Streak game show co-host.  The winning ticket was bought from Mace, Old Cross Square, Co. Monaghan. Pic: Mac Innes Photography

Michael Fisher The proposed merger of Town of Monaghan Co-Op and Ballyrashane Co-Op in North Antrim has been strongly endorsed by shareholders of both Societies. There will now be a three weeks cooling-off period before the plans are put before the members again for formal approval. Both chief executives said afterwards there had been very good turnouts at the two shareholder meetings on Tuesday night in Monaghan and Ballyrashane. They said it was clear there was a resounding acceptance of the strategic fit between the two co-ops and that a merger ...

“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em…” Irish country music’s favourite adopted son Robert Mizzell was taking a leaf out of the book of Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler when he posed for Rory Geary’s picture at Friday’s launch of the Monaghan Town Country Music Festival 2015. The Louisianan, one of the “kings” of the country scene, paired up with four of the “queens” of the occasion – Festival Committee Secretary Julie Brannigan, Nancy McKenna (wife of Festival founding force the late Willie McKenna), Monaghan’s own fabled country songstress Gloria, and ...

Michael Fisher Bus Éireann Inspector Paddy Gollogly waved farewell for the last time as the Letterkenny express pulled out of Monaghan bus station on Tuesday afternoon. Since 1992 Paddy has been the Inspector at the depot, supervising all passing services at this busy stop, which is also used by Translink cross-border coaches from Derry and Armagh. After 44 years in the job, Paddy was hanging up his Inspector’s hat and looking forward to an active retirement. A native of Carrickmacross, he began work as a school bus driver in the area in 1971. ...

PETER HUGHES “The last time I stepped on stage at the Monaghan festival, it was like being in Glastonbury – the atmosphere was absolutely fantastic!” So stated Ireland’s favourite Louisianan Robert Mizzell when he supplied the closing (verbal) notes for last Friday’s official launch of the Monaghan Town Country Music Festival 2015. The exhibition gallery of Monaghan Co Museum echoed, with infectious incongruity, to intermittent cheers of the “Yee-har!” variety as the invited guests, many of them in appropriate attire, indulged in their own prelude of the big July event when a comment ...

– Support urged to make late Oliver Brady’s life-saving dream a reality Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys, leading officials of the GAA and a host of other political and sporting personalities assembled at Croke Park last Thursday for the official launch by Shabra Charity of a major new fund-raising initiative to purchase genomic sequencing equipment for the Mater Hospital. The late Co Monaghan entrepreneur and philanthropist Oliver Brady had a last wish to see the specialist life-saving equipment put in place at the Mater Hospital, ...

PETER HUGHES The first stages of a mobilisation campaign aimed at maximising the non-payment of water charges among the citizens of Monaghan were put in place at a public meeting in the town’s Hillgrove Hotel last Thursday evening. A crowd of over 70 people heard Anti-Austerity Alliance TD for Dublin South-West Paul Murphy state that a nationwide campaign of large-scale water charge non-payment would put immense pressure on the political establishment to abolish the controversial levy following the next General Election. Deputy Murphy exhorted people who had not yet paid to hold off ...

By Cianna McNally A young Smithboro man has much to be proud of after raising over €1,200 for the Holy Family School in Cootehill. Sean Collins, from Mullandavagh, Smithboro, who is son of Annette and Donal, dyed his hair pink last Saturday to raise money for the Special Care Unit in The Holy Family School in Cootehill, Co Cavan. The 12-year-old has a close link with the school as his older sister, 14-year-old Kathryn, attends it and her kind-hearted brother was aware of how much she loves it and the benefit she gets ...

PETER HUGHES “Let us work together to make this good county a great county,” stated Sinn Féin’s Noel Keelan upon his election on Monday as the new Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council. The South Monaghan public representative, a Council member since 1999, was unanimously elected as first citizen at the local authority’s Annual Meeting, succeeding Fianna Fáil’s Pádraig McNally. Seamus Coyle (FF) was appointed unopposed to the Leas Cathaoirleach or vice-chair position. In an exceptionally comprehensive address, the new Cathaoirleach detailed the issues confronting the Council over the remainder of its term but ...

By Cianna McNally “It really hasn’t sunk in yet that I am a Triple World Champion but when I see how it has made my family and friends feel and how proud they are then it makes me feel like the happiest girl on earth.” So said Emyvale woman Louise McKenna who won her impressive title at the World Single Lift Championships in Telford, England last weekend. Louise, who is daughter of Antoinette and Martin McKenna, was one of 100 lifters (50 men and 50 women) from the Irish Drug Free Powerlifting Association who represented Ireland ...