Articles in the This Week’s Newspaper Category

Boxing enthusiasts from both sides of the border gathered in Four Seaons Hotel, Monaghan on Saturday night last for a big charity fight night. The event generated valuable funding for a new Community Hall in Aughnacloy our photographer Rory Geary was ringside to capture the best of the action.

Monaghan United 3 Waterford United 1 TIn a week that saw some national newspaper commentators make light of Monaghan United’s promotion credentials, Roddy Collins’ charges offered the perfect riposte with this stirring come-from-behind victory over a powerful Waterford United side at Gortakeegan on Friday night, writes Peter Hughes. The win, which gives the Mons some vital breathing space over Limerick in the Airtricity League Division One battle and brings them within a point of Cork City with a game in hand over the Leesiders, was accomplished on ...

Monaghan’s bid to get their hands on the Brendan Martin Cup for the first time since 1997 remains on track following their convincing win last weekend against Meath. Team manager Greg McGonigle was suitably pleased by his charges’ display, writes KEVIN CARNEY … Meath may argue otherwise but Monaghan boss Greg McGonigle believes that the scoreboard in Birr last Saturday didn’t tell any porkies. The county ladies premier football team were good value for their 11 point (2-13 to 0-8) winning margin, McGonigle maintains. “We’re into the all-Ireland semi-final and that’s all that counts ...

Pictured here as Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2011 came to an end in Cavan on Monday last are some of the volunteers in the “brush dance” event, where a new record was set when some 602 participants danced their way into the Guinness World Records for the largest ever gathering of brush dancers, sweeping the floor with the previous record of 362. Providing the music for the event was the great Frankie Gavin of legendary traditional group De Dannan, who himself holds the record for being the world’s fastest ...

Co Monaghan has always been justly proud of its agricultural show tradition, and the recent staging of the annual events in Castleblayney and Tydavnet have reaffirmed the justification for that pride. Both events have presented the various facets of the county’s rural existence in a highly impressive manner, presenting a vista on agricultural enterprise pleasingly at odds with the gloomy habilliments worn by most other aspects of economic activity at the present time. And the picture painted by the county’s agricultural show presentations this year has been a ...

By PATSY McARDLE A CROSS-BORDER drama which brought unwelcome media focus on the Mullyash area of Co Monaghan and Castleblayney unfolded last Thursday in the wake of a Northern robbery which led to the partner and son of a security firm’s driver who was abducted in Belfast, being taken to an isolated house in the area, in what was described as a so-called “tiger” raid. The woman and 16-year-old son were freed after the man was forced to hand over a substantial sum of money – ...

By Cianna McNally A LOCAL artist has certainly left his mark on his former school as he created two sculptures that are on display outside of it. Marc Kelly from Emy, Emyvale was commissioned to design two sculptures at his former school, Corracrin National School. He created a four-foot colourful jigsaw cube entitled ‘Altogether’ as a physical expression of how the different elements of education fit together. At the front of the school stands ‘Our Time’, a seven-foot limestone hand-carved pillar with a metre diameter steel ring on top. The carvings ...

RELATIVES of a Co. Tyrone man who was abducted and murdered by the IRA thirty-six years ago expressed disappointment last week at the news that skeletal remains which were exhumed from the local churchyard at Urbleshanny some weeks ago, were not those of Columba McVeigh, from Donaghmore, near Dungannon. Friends of the family said they still believe Mr. McVeigh was buried in boglands at Bragan, despite information received by a Northern priest that the body might ...

By Veronica Corr Elaine Alexander, returned to County Antrim Yacht Club on July 13th, a heroine after circumnavigating Ireland in a kayak, having spent over two months at sea. Ms. Alexander is the second female ever to paddle solo around Ireland and the first Ulster woman to have achieved this momentous goal. Her epic 1,000 mile voyage around the rugged coastline began on May 3rd. Her trojan efforts have also raised £7900 for the Share charity thus far and the target is £10,000 —(see donation details below). Elaine, now living in ...