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The Cavan/Monaghan constituency should once again have five Dáil seats when the next General Election takes place. The constituency was reduced to a four-seater for the last Dáil election but new recommendations from the Constituency Commission will, if adopted, see the traditional level of Leinster House representation restored. It is also being proposed to transfer parts of the existing Meath East and Sligo-Leitrim constituencies to Cavan/Monaghan. Fianna Fáil TD for the constituency Brendan Smith told The Northern Standard yesterday that he was “absolutely delighted” that the major part of west ...

Corcaghan man Benny Connolly is pictured with his children Noah and Ellie just prior to the sacrifice of his profuse growth of facial hair for some very worthy causes last Friday night. Benny’s “Bald to Bald” fundraising campaign, which has gathered considerable social media momentum via a muchfrequented Facebook page, came to a successful conclusion in the popular Monaghan Town hostelry of Terry’s at Market Street. The charity head and beard shave was the centrepiece of a rousing evening’s entertainment, with the proceeds going to aid Cavan/Monaghan Palliative Care and ...

Minister for Communications Denis Naughten TD was this week due to announce details of a second study of EirGrid’s north-south electricity interconnector project which would address some of the primary concerns of those objecting to the development proceeding through the use of overground pylons. This was stated by Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Heather Humphreys TD when she joined fellow Cavan/Monaghan Oireachtas members for a detailed “summit” on the interconnector issue with the members of Monaghan Co Council on Monday morning. Minister Humphreys said the study – which would ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney needs to be aware of the impact Brexit will have on Border communities,” stated the new Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council, Sinn Féin’s Cathy Bennett on Monday. One of the first initiatives taken by Councillor Bennett on her assumption of the chairperson role at the local authority’s Annual Meeting was to extend an invitation to Minister Coveney to visit Co Monaghan and hold Brexit discussions with the Co Council. Proposing that meetings also be arranged between the Minister and relevant business sectors in the ...

– Indiscriminate lighting of fires could devastate major Monaghan Town amenity warns Councillor Treanor Rossmore Forest Park outside Monaghan Town were warned this week that they ran the risk of devastating the major scenic amenity. Independent Co Councillor Seamus Treanor told Monday’s meeting of the Monaghan Municipal District that he had been made aware of a small element of people lighting fires in the park. He warned that if an unattended fire were to ignite a blaze in the trees of the amenity it could cause major destruction to woodland and ...

Fine Gael local public representative Ciara McPhillips tendered her resignation as a member of Monaghan Co Council on Monday, stating that she could not continue in her political role because of time constraints that left her unable to manager her professional career as a solicitor in addition to her duties as a councillor. In a letter of resignation read to the June meeting of the local authority by Cathaoirleach P J O’Hanlon (Fianna Fáil), she stated: “…I am unwilling to do either job by halves.” The resignation of Ms Phillips, ...

By Veronica Corr Garda Superintendent Alan Cunningham confirmed to The Northern Standard on Saturday afternoon that last week’s search for human remains in a lake in Carrickmacross reaped some positive results. “We found human remains from the lake Lough na Glack,” Superintendent Cunningham confirmed, before continuing: “It’s part of a co-ordinated search that has also included locations in Dublin. We’re acting on specific information that remains would have been concealed in that area. It has been an ongoing search by the Cavan-Monaghan Divisional Search Team in conjunction with the Garda Water ...

Pictured by our photographer Rory Geary are Christian Brother Fred Fox, Francis Meehan and Bishop Emeritus of Clogher Liam MacDaid, who were among the several hundred strong attendance in the Hillgrove Hotel last Friday night for a dinner marking the launch of “A Sesquicentenary Souvenir – A Monaghan Story”, the publication marking the 150th anniversary of Scoil Mhuire Muineachán.

By PATSY McARDLE A fresh search was resumed during the week at a South Monaghan lake where it is believed the dismembered remains of a Dublin man who was a convicted rapist, and murdered by his brother, were deposited. The victim was James Nolan, one of whose arms was washed up on Dollymount Strand in Dublin in 2011. It emerged that Nolan, from Finglas, was strangled to death by his brother, Thomas, who lived for a period in Carrickmacross – before taking his own life in a flat, which he ...

Continuity and community willbe the watchwords for the future governance of the Hillgrove Hotel, its new owners told the people of Monaghan Town last Thursday. Representatives of iNua Hospitality, the Irish hotel group which purchased the Hillgrove from Colm and Audri Herron for an undisclosed sum in April, were present at a celebration evening in the hotel attended by several hundred patrons, customers, suppliers and local business and community representatives. Among the guests was Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Heather Humphreys TD, who was joined from ...