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National Heritage Week, an initiative by the Heritage Council, celebrates all things heritage. It brings together communities, families, organisations, cultural institutions, academics and enthusiasts, to build awareness about the value of heritage and support its conservation. The theme for National Heritage Week 2024 is “Connections, Routes and Networks”.

Monaghan County Council Heritage Office are offering grant assistance to organisers to hold events that meet the objectives of National Heritage Week https://www.heritageweek.ie/

Who can apply:

This grant scheme is open to individuals/community groups and not for profit organisations, heritage and biodiversity groups, venues and societies.

All groups in receipt of funding from Monaghan County Council must be members of Monaghan PPN.

What Funding is available:

The level of grant assistance for any one event will range from €100 to €1000.

To be eligible for funding projects/events must:

• take place in County Monaghan and celebrate an element of Monaghan’s heritage.
• be organised by an individual/community/voluntary group based in Monaghan.
• proposed event must be run during heritage week 17^th – 25^th August 2024.

How to apply:

Please visit https://monaghan.ie/heritage/heritage-grants/ for application form and guidance. Any queries can also be sent to the Heritage Office email heritage@monaghancoco.ie .

• The closing date for applications is 4pm on Friday 14^th June 2024.

Staff from our Roads, Active Travel and Community Sections together with John O’Flaherty, Tobin Consultants attended a public consultation meeting on the evening of Wednesday 22^nd May in Ballinode Community Hall, which was extremely well attended.

This event provided a platform for the Council to inform the community about the preferred route option linking the villages of Ballinode and Scotstown, and to listen to the views and concerns of all.  The positive feedback and meaningful engagement demonstrated the need and desire to build a stronger connection and to provide safe facilities for pedestrians and cyclists between the two villages.

Monaghan County Council are exploring the option of trialling a “Quiet road” in Monaghan and the concept was presented to those in attendance.

Quiet Roads or Quiet Lanes are designated rural roads where traffic volumes and vehicles speeds are relatively low. The objectives of such a scheme are:

• Aim to encourage people to travel by walking, wheeling or cycling.
• Preserve the character and tranquillity of the rural environment and contain traffic growth.
• Support access to outdoors for everyone.

Key Elements would include:

1. Community involvement to encourage a change in driver behaviour.
2. Area-wide directional signing to discourage or reroute through traffic.
3. Quiet road entry and exit signs to remind drivers that they are entering or exiting a Quiet Road – may expect people to be using the whole of the road space for a range of activities
4. Safety measures such as- traffic calming, passing bays/pull in areas, vertical/horizontal deflections, improvement in sight lines, reduced speed limits.

 

Following on from the public consultation and meetings with community groups and landowners, council staff are going to explore funding opportunities with Department of Transport. The DOT have committed to establish a working group to determine the design details and legislative changes necessary to implement such a scheme in Ireland. It is hoped that this could be a pilot in County Monaghan, and we look forward to working with all stakeholders in the future with a view to having this innovative scheme implemented.

Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to this very important discussion.

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER – Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) has re-opened with a closing date of 29^th May, 2024

• If you are in rate arrears engage with your Local Authority as you may be eligible for the grant
• If you do not have your ID or PIN number contact your Local Authority
• Retail and Hospitality Businesses are now entitled to a second payment for approved businesses and a double payment for new registrations?

Overview

As part of Budget 2024, the government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE), will manage the rollout of the grant to qualifying businesses.

Local authorities have written to rate payers with details of registration.

If you do not have your ID and PIN number you should contact your rates section in your Local Authority as soon as possible

Eligibility

Eligible businesses will receive a once-off grant payment as a contribution towards the rising costs faced by businesses. It is not a Commercial Rates waiver and businesses should continue to pay their Commercial Rates bill as normal.

The grant is based on the value of the Commercial Rates bill received by an eligible business in 2023.

For qualifying businesses with a 2023 Commercial Rate bill of less than €10,000, the ICOB grant will be paid at a rate of 50% of the business’s Commercial Rate bill for 2023.

For qualifying businesses with a 2023 Commercial Rate bill of between €10,000 and €30,000, the ICOB grant will be €5,000.

Businesses with a 2023 Commercial Rates bill greater than €30,000 are not eligible to receive an ICOB grant.

Businesses in the Retail and Hospitality Sectors are entitled to a second payment for approved businesses and a double payment for new registrations.

Registration 

The closing date is now 29^th May 2024, REGISTER NOW on ICOB.ie.

For more information and registration visit icob.ie.

Ulster Senior Football Championship Final.  Armagh V Donegal – St. Tiernach’s Park Clones, 4pm Sunday May 12^th #cloneshomeofulsterfootball

• Pre-Match Entertainment 12pm to 3pm
• Live Outdoor Music
• Street Food Vendors
• Family Friendly, Face Painting, Arts & Crafts

 

Clones will host the 136^th Ulster Senior Football Championship Final on Sunday May 12^th, throw-in at 4pm.  Monaghan County Council in partnership with Clones Town Team and Clones St. Tiernach’s GAA Club are hosting pre-match entertainment on Ulster Final Day, commencing at 12pm and running until 3pm.

Live outdoor music will be located on The Diamond with street food vendors throughout the town. A family friendly zone will be located in Barry McGuigan Park with local artists in attendance for face painting & arts activities for the kiddies.  The park will also have live music, a food vendor, and public toilets.

Match goers will enjoy great food and friendly service as they experience the famous Clones pre-match atmosphere #cloneshomeofulsterfootball

 

Section 180 of the Planning & Development Act 2000 (as amended) & Section 11 of the Roads Act 1993 (as amended)

Monaghan County Council propose to take in charge and make a declaration of part of the associated estate roads, footpaths, public lighting, storm water services and public open spaces at the following residential development in accordance with the relevant sections of the above Acts.

• Lough Na Glack, Drummond Otra, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.

Location maps of the estate and roads to be declared ‘public roads’ are available for inspection at the offices of Monaghan Council Planning Department, 1 Dublin Street, Monaghan during normal office hours, Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays, for a period of one month commencing on the 02^nd of May 2024.  The Council will consider any objections / representations regarding the proposals which are submitted in writing to the undersigned.  Closing date for receipt of objections / representations is 5.00 p.m. on the 18^th June 2024.

 

Signed:

Director of Services for Planning,

Monaghan County Council,

1 Dublin Street, Monaghan.

Dated this the 02^nd of May 2024. 

Local authorities must identify official bathing areas in their area every year so that they can be monitored for safety, water quality and their level of use.  To help with this process, Monaghan County Council are asking people who swim lakes and rivers to tell them if they think they should maintain existing designated bathing waters designations or give a new official bathing area designation to areas that are commonly used for swimming, but not identified at the moment.  Monaghan County Council has presently no designated bathing waters and the vast majority of bathing waters in Ireland are at coastal locations.

Under European and Irish law, Irish local authorities must identify bathing waters each year so that these areas can be monitored to ensure they meet stringent microbiological water quality standards. In some cases, the official bathing areas are also the areas where local authorities focus their resources providing lifeguards during the summer season.  These laws also require that the local authority prepares detailed descriptions or profiles for each of the identified bathing water sites that describe not just the bathing area but also areas in the surface waters catchment area that could be a source of pollution. The profiles include an assessment the risk of pollution and what action would be taken if pollution occurs.

If you are a regular swimmer and want to help your Council decide which bathing areas if any should be classified as such, it might be helpful to consider the following:

• How your swimming area has been used up to now;
• How many people use the site;
• What facilities exist at the site and how accessible it is;
• Any safety issues.

If you have a submission to make on the identification of bathing waters you can do so by clicking on the link below:

https://documents.monaghancoco.ie/Forms/PPIBW2024

Closing date for submissions Monaghan County Council is 26^th of September 2024

The RSA’s Check it Fits Child Car Seat Testing Service will be visiting the following locations in Monaghan: 

WHERE	WHEN
Fleming’s Department Store Monaghan Co. Monaghan, H18 WK60	Tuesday 7th May 10:00am – 5:30pm
O’Gorman’s SuperValu, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, A81 V389	Wednesday 8th  May 10:00am – 5:30pm

The Check it Fits service is a full-time, nationwide, free expert service which aims to put parent’s and guardian’s minds at ease that their child’s car seat is safely and securely fitted in their car. No booking necessary just arrive on the day.  

The service is quick, it’s easy, it’s free. Experts will advise on how to fix any problem, demonstrate how to fit the restraint correctly and answer any queries participants might have.

Don’t let your child be a statistic. Get your child car seat checked.

 

Overview

The Draft Noise Action Plan has been informed by and is based on the Strategic Noise Maps which were prepared for Monaghan County Council and which covers road transport noise from major roads with traffic volumes of more than 3 million vehicles per year.

Why We Are Doing It

The Noise Action Plan is required under the Environmental Noise Directive (“END”) (2002/49/EC) which was transposed into Irish law through the European Communities (Environmental Noise) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 549/2018) and the European Communities (Environmental Noise) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 663/2021).  The Regulations require Strategic Noise Maps and Noise Action Plans to be made or revised every five years.

When We Are Doing It

This Noise Action Plan covers Round 4 of the implementation of the END.  The final Noise Action Plan must be completed and issued to the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) by the 18th July 2024 and subsequently issued by the EPA to the EU Commission by the end of January 2025.

Requirements of the Noise Action Plan

The Environmental Noise Directive (END) requires local authorities to draw-up plans of action which will include measures to ‘address priorities which may be identified by the exceeding of any relevant limit value or by other criteria chosen by the Member State and apply in particular to the most important areas as established by strategic noise mapping’.  It also requires Plans to identify and protect “quiet areas against an increase in noise”.

Why your views matter

The Draft Noise Action Plan relates to Noise from major roads with traffic volumes of more than 3 million vehicles per year within the county and includes the national road; N2 and parts of the non-national road network, namely the R937 (Dublin Road, Monaghan Town), R162 (Glen Road, Monaghan Town), R181 (Main Street, Castleblayney), R183 (Monaghan Road, Castleblayney), R938 (York Street, Castleblayney) & R927 (Main Street, Carrickmacross).

Reader note

Readers are welcome to view the draft plan and aspects of the plan that may be relevant to you.

Electronic copies are available for the reader to download, or alternatively you can view a paper copy of the draft plan and the screening reports at any of the locations below:

1)   Monaghan County Council Offices, Glen Road, Monaghan

2)   Monaghan County Council Offices, M-TEK II Building, Armagh Road, Monaghan

3)   Monaghan County Council, Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District, Civic Offices,

Riverside Road, Carrickmacross

4)   Monaghan County Council, Ballybay-Clones Municipal District Office, The Diamond, Clones

5)   Castleblayney Library, Gatelodge, 2 Market Square, Onomy, Castleblayney.

 

Readers are also invited to make any comments on the SEA and AA screening reports accompanying the Draft Noise Action Plan.

Give us your views

Submissions or observations in relation to the Draft Plan are to be made electronically by emailing us at the addresses provided on Monaghan County Council’s Consultation Portal at the following address,

Online Submission

i.e. link to:

http://consult.monaghancoco.ie/browse

specifically, the

Draft Noise Action Plan 2024-2028

 

Closing Dates

Closing date for submissions on the draft plan is 5pm on 27^th June 2024

Closing date for submissions on the Screening reports for the draft plan is 5pm on 30^th May 2024

 

 

Related Documents:

Draft Noise Action Plan

SEA Screening of Noise Action Plan

AA Screening of Noise Action Plan