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Emy Anglers Receive Grant Aid

Emy and District Anglers received a grant aid cheque for 750 euro from Monaghan County Council towards the club's 2012 River Enhancement Programme. To date, members of the club have cleaned and cleared a good portion of the Mountain River and have begun, with the help of the Inlands Fishery Ireland, spreading and raking 8 tonne of trout spawning gravel into the Mountain Water river and Mill Race. This river flows into Emy Lough. It is hoped that in the coming years the lake might see a return to higher wild trout numbers. It is also planned that further river enhancment, clearing and cleaning works, will continue and be ongoing over the next few years. The Club expresses its thanks to the Monaghan County Council and the Inlands Fishery Ireland for all their help and assistance in the above and helping to promote Emy Lough as an excellent fly-fishing wild brown trout fishery.

The Money was presented by Mayor of County Monaghan, Seamus Coyle, at the Lake on Thursday, June 14th. Treasurer of the Club, Jimmy Skinnader, accepted the cheque. Also present were from left in our picture below - Niall O'Connor - Environmental Section, Monaghan County Council; Cllr. Seamus Coyle - Mayor of County Monaghan; Jimmy Skinnader - Emy & District Anglers Ltd; Enda Fields - Emy & District Anglers Ltd; Liam Murray - Inlands Fishery Ireland; Martin Mc Kenna - Emy & District Anglers Ltd. Photos by Declan.

Damage ??

Recently we noticed the damage to one of the new seats erected around the walkway at Emy Lake. This damage may have been caused by a faulty concrete leg and due to weather it cracked the concrete or, and hopefully this is not the reason, it may have been caused by vandalism. It would be a sad reflection on the area if vandalism would destroy such an important and used facility in the area. This type of destruction cannot be accepted in our society and everyone has a duty of care and responsibility to ensure that vandals cannot wreck a facility, which took much time and hard work to put in place and is such an additional amenity for Monaghan.