Articles in the Scotstown Category

By Patsy McArdle Rugby exponents and other popular sports’ personalities took part on Sunday last in a special day-long charity fund-raising programme for a six-years-old North Monaghan girl who may have to travel overseas for life-saving treatment for Retts’ Syndrome. Shauna McPhillips of Scotstown, is suffering from the rare neuro-development disorder which is threatening her life and is causing severe multiple disabilities. She is the youngest daughter of Declan and Marie McPhillips, who have another young daughter, Sinead. Her ...

By Veronica Corr MONAGHAN MAN Stephen Brannigan has every reason to be a proud father, as he found himself in the unusual position of having to deliver his own son — with a little help from his wife Niamh and a paramedic at the end of the phone! Baby Parker, weighing seven pounds and nine ounces, was born at 1.18am on Friday last, August 5th. The delivery took place in the front seat of his parents’ car, as there were two child seats in the back! Conscientious dad Stephen had one child ...

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches, And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows the horses and cattle….” This might well have been theme-song of the organisers when they brought their singing wheels to The National Senior Cycling Road Race Championships hosted in North Monaghan last weekend, 23rd–26th June. Nestled just a mile or two from the main Dublin-Derry road (N2) lies the parish of Tydavnet, the location of the twenty-five-kilometre circuit chosen for the event. The four parish villages are Ballinode, ...

By PATSY McARDLE A huge search was resumed in North Monaghan this week for the body of a young Co.Tyrone man murdered by the IRA nearly forty years ago with the exhumation on Tuesday last of a body from a churchyard at Urbleshanney near Scotstown, close to the Monaghan/Tyrone border. The latest search was authorised by the authorities in Co. Monaghan. It was claimed that the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains received information during the past month that the body of Columba McVeigh, a 17-years-old Northern Ireland man ...

More than 400 walkers converged on Sliabh Beagh for the RTE Walk Show hosted by John Murray on Saturday, May 7th. Local personalities including Jack and Sammy Leslie and Knockatallon Ramblers’ walk leader, Paddy Sherry were interviewed along the walk for the radio show which was broadcast last week. A party atmosphere ensued at Knockatallon with local musicians entertaining the masses before the start. Pipers, Conor Curren and Ted Brennan led the walkers out towards the bog. Horslips legend, Barry Devlin was handed a guitar in the bog and played ...

Get your hair done for the radio! The Knockatallon Ramblers along with the support of other network groups will welcome RTE for a walking extravaganza at Sliabh Beagh on May 7th. The event will be broadcast on RTE’s ‘The John Murray Show’. Walkers from clubs north of the border will meet up in the bog at the Three County Hollow where the counties of Tyrone, Monaghan and Fermanagh converge. Musicians will play as the walkers set off from Sliabh Beagh at 12 noon. There will be further entertainment with local celebrities taking ...

By Michael McDonnell michael@northern-standard.ie A pigmeat producing factory in Scotstown, Monaghan has this week reacted angrily to claims made by the IFA following a protest held at the plant on Thursday last, 7th April, where pig producers vented their frustration at processors they claim to be involved in the widespread importation of pig meat, a practice the farmers allege to be “effectively putting Irish farmers out of business.” However, Connolly Meats Ltd, where the protest was held, issued a statement this week where it said over 80% of its pigmeat ...