Articles in the Monaghan Category

Monaghan again rocked to some great music over the weekend. Despite the weather there was a great atmosphere in the town. Check out our images of the weekend, full report to follow.

MONAGHAN TOWN has been rated one of the worst of the border towns in the annual IBAL (Irish Businesses Against Litter) results. Out of 53 towns and cities surveyed, Monaghan – in previous years one of IBAL’s better towns – ranked in 47th place and just three sites in the town were listed as being Clean to European Norms. What was listed as the Monaghan Town Council Public Playing Pitch fared the worst as it was described as a litter blackspot and the results stated, “There was a constant stream of ...

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD on Monday officially opened a new €12 million state-of-the-art mushroom growing facility which has been built by Tyholland Mushrooms Limited, an associate company of Monaghan Mushrooms at their headquarters in Tyholland, on the outskirts of Monaghan town. The new facility, which will generate 150 jobs, is made up of 18 individual mushroom growing houses that together provide a total growing area of 21,306 square metres. When operating at full capacity, it will have an output of 115 tonnes of mushrooms per ...

The dramatist writing the script for Monaghan United’s extraordinary season excelled himself on Tuesday night, contriving a scenario worthy of the club’s historic achievement in reaching the final of the EA Sports League Cup, writes Peter Hughes … A frenetic semi-final clash with Dundalk has reached a tension point as tight as a tourniquet when, with four minutes on the clock and the prospect of extra time imminent, United midfielder Cathal O’Connor, latching onto an astute pass from substitute Darragh Hanaphy, turned onto his left foot and sent a low drive ...

Monaghan Utd. 4 (Bermingham pen 34; McCrossan, 52, 61; Hanaphy 72) Mervue United 0 Monaghan United maintained their formidable consistency at Gortakeegan on Friday night by exploiting Mervue United’s loss of their goalkeeper Ger Hanley to a red card with an hour to play with an irrepressible performance that never threatened to let their depleted opponents off the hook, writes Peter Hughes. The inequality in numbers might cast some shadow over the margin of the Mons’ victory, but the home side were moving smoothly into control of the game at that point and ...

A recently qualified medical doctor from Monaghan has joined an award-winning international organisation to take up a key post in carin g for patients, many of whom are children, suffering from malnutrition and other ailments in the central African country of Chad. Twenty-nine year old Dr Gabriel Fitzpatrick from Aughnamullen has just left Ireland to work with the Nobel Prize-winning aid agen cy, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in its Doctors Without Borders project in Chad. Having recently finished his Masters in Public Health at UCD, Gabriel will be take responsibility for the in-patient feeding centre ...

North Monaghan Sinn Féin Councillor and Regional Health Forum member, Brian McKenna, has received a commitment from the HSE that Monaghan General Hospital could and would receive patients from Drogheda and Dublin hospitals following procedures being carried out. Cllr. McKenna had previously highlighted the fact that only patients treated in Cavan could be transferred to Monaghan. He had pointed out the waste of step down and rehabilitation beds available in Monaghan under the previous scheme and was informed at a meeting of the Regional Health Forum by Hospital Network Manager ...

The National Clay Bird Championships were held at David Brennan’s Shooting Ground, Ardee last week-end — an event which saw Monaghan’s Edel Gilliland win her first all-Ireland title. On Saturday it was it was the turn of the Monaghan county team of Geoffrey Quinn, Malcolm Graham, Mattie Gilliland, Declan McKenna, Sean Gilliland, Raymond McKenna, Darren Duffy, Laurence McArdle, Gavin Haughey, Alan Gilliland, Rory McKenna and John Babbington to take part. Veterans Martin Gilliland and Joe Rehill, as well as ladies Edel Gilliland and Rose McArdle also competed. In the team event, they ...

A €3.91 million funding allocation approved by the Minister for the Environment John Gormley this week was described at Monday night’s meeting of Monaghan Town Council as having the potential to considerably alleviate the serious flooding problems which intermittently strike the centre of the county capital. The Minister announced on Friday last that he had given approval to Monaghan Co Council to invite tenders for work on the Monaghan Town Sewerage Scheme which would involve the construction of a wastewater pumping station, the provision of an odour control plant at the ...