By Jonathan Rainey
editor
GARDAI raided a number of homes in County Monaghan this week as part of an ongoing investigation into cross-border crime.
Officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) carried out a number of searches in both Counties Monaghan and Donegal on Tuesday morning during ‘Operation Limpid’, which targeted smuggling and oil laundering.
In all, 14 premises [...]

By Claire Duignan
Reporter
LOCALS living along the South Armagh border may soon believe that their streets are paved with precious metals after a Dublin-based mining company this week claimed to have made one of its biggest-ever gold finds in the area.
Conroy Diamonds and Gold PLC said the find at Clay Lake near Keady, South Armagh was [...]

By Claire Duignan
Reporter
MONAGHAN Town’s SuperValu has continued its winning streak coming in as runner-up for another award following on the back of their big win as best SuperValu store in Ireland earlier this year.
Fleming’s Supervalu store in the Diamond found themselves up against hundreds of stores across Ireland and reached the final for Best in [...]

By Jonathan Rainey
editor
SOCCER clubs across Monaghan this week benefited from a €100,000 windfall announced to celebrate the start of the weeklong Festival of Football in the county.
A total of 13 clubs will share the money, which has been handed out to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to go towards the development of new and [...]

By Cianna McNally
reporter
THE first ever plan to help the pre-school sector meet the needs and learning development of children was unveiled on Tuesday, 30 June in the M:tek Building, Monaghan.
The Aistear curriculum which was presented by Director for Curriculum and Assessment with the National Council Arlene Forster emphasises the [...]

By Claire Duignan
Reporter
A SET of quadruplets, three of whom are now based in Carrickmacross, paid a visit to the man they owe their lives to at the recent retirement function of the Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who delivered the four babies 28 years ago.
The quads, Orla, Thomas, Niall and John Paul Duffy, a first for [...]

GARDAI are appealing for witnesses to come forward after armed robbers raided a bank in the Cavan town of Cootehill, close to the Monaghan border, in a daring heist last week.
A number of robbers targeted the town’s Ulster Bank branch at around 4.40pm on Friday last, making off with an undisclosed sum of cash, a [...]

By Claire Duignan
Reporter
A GROUP of young actors took to the stage to debut a musical performance last weekend, a first for the Knocktallon Development Committee.
The youth Musical “Olivia” was a sell out show every night and played to a packed house recently in the Sliabh Beagh Hotel.
The musical was the brainchild of Patricia Moyna, the [...]

By Cianna McNally
Reporter
MEMBERS of Castleblayney Town Council have called for a thorough review of the electoral legislative process following the allegations of fraud in the recent local elections.
It was revealed this week in the national media that seven non-nationals were registered to vote at an empty house in Ballybay which had not been lived in [...]

By Jonathan Rainey
Editor
AS Monaghan prepares to host a week-long festival of football, which has been organised by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), local councillors have hailed the massive boost it will give to the county.
The Festival of Football, which starts on Monday, will see a series of events related to the ‘Beautiful Game’ taking [...]

CUSTOMS officials have confirmed that they are carrying out a crackdown on Vehicle Registration Tax evasion in the border area.
Senior Revenue Officer Sean Kelleher, the Assistant Principal Officer in charge of Revenue Enforcement and Anti Evasion for the BMW Eastern Region, told the Monaghan Post this week that the Revenue’s Customs service is undertaking an [...]

By Cianna McNally
reporter
FINE Gael councillor Heather Humphreys who was elected Mayor of County Monaghan at a meeting of Monaghan County Council on Friday last is only the second woman in the history of the County Council to secure the [...]

By Cianna McNally
Reporter
CASTLEBLAYNEY Town Council members have called on Monaghan County Council to impose a complete ban on the use of jet-skis in scenic Lough Muckno park in Castleblayney.
Mayor Joe Brennan added an emergency motion to the agenda of Castleblayney Town Council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. The motion requested that bye-laws would [...]

Local Fianna Fáil TD Margaret Conlon has confirmed that an additional emergency ambulance is now operating out of Castleblayney 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“An additional emergency ambulance is operating out of Castleblayney since last week and that means there are now three emergency ambulances to respond to emergency calls in Monaghan,” [...]

WITH all the doom and gloom surrounding the current state of the economy in Ireland, one plucky Carrickmacross car salesman is bucking the trend by reopening his business today (Thursday)!
Cieran McConnon was forced to close his Magheracloone-based premises several months ago, after the collapse of the global motor industry. However, the local man has come [...]

By Jonathan Rainey
editor
WHILE Fianna Fáil members across Ireland are licking their wounds after their disastrous showing in last week’s local and European elections, the performance of the party’s candidates in Monaghan may well be a crumb of comfort for embattled Taoiseach, Brian Cowen.
Compared to some very big losses elsewhere in Ireland, the local Fianna Fáil [...]

HISTORY will be made tomorrow (Friday) when over 250 people, descended from the Moynas of Scotstown will meet for a weekend of heritage and craic and to discover where they all came from. Relatives are coming to Monaghan from Brazil, Chile, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, North America and Uruguay.
Reunion guests will arrive at the [...]

By Cianna McNally
reporter
THE town of Castleblayney, which made history in July last year by breaking the Guinness World Record for having the most Smurfs in one place, this week had the title snatched from it.
The Castleblayney event which was organised as part of the annual Muckno Mania Festival saw over 1,250 people gather in [...]

By Cianna McNally
reporter
A MONAGHAN student has hit out at the blunder with exam papers which saw Leaving Certificate students across Ireland forced to sit English paper two on Saturday morning last.
The exam which was due to take place on Thursday, June 4 had to be rescheduled by the State Examinations Commission after [...]

By Jonathan Rainey
Editor
IN THE Monaghan Electoral Area in last week’s county council elections, the two independent candidates stormed to success – with one of them topping the poll!
Bread delivery man, Seamus Treanor, a popular figure in the local area, was elected on the first count with an impressive 1,300 first preference votes – well above [...]