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After a competitive tender process, Ballybay Enterprise Park Ltd are delighted to announce the appointment of Rodney Brady Construction for the refurbishment and upgrade of five 1,500 sq ft units into state-of-the-art food grade production units. The LEADER supported project is part of a €400,000 plus investment in the park to create a Food Hub in the area for artisan and start up food businesses. It will build upon the county’s long food heritage in an industry that already has a turnover of over €1bn within the county and accounts for approximately 60% of its employment. The refurbished Ballybay Food Hub will allow new business access to purpose-built food grade units. These will complement the existing food kitchen at the site which is regularly used by local food producers as well as regional training organisations. Finbarr Daly, CEO of Enterprising Monaghan which is one of the partner organisations involved in the project says that these units will be a great asset to the area supporting both new food projects and employment for Ballybay and its environs. He added that the support of LEADER is crucial to this phase of the project. The construction work which will start in the coming weeks is expected to be finished before Christmas this year with some tenants planning to move in early in 2020. For more information visit: www.enterprisningmonaghan.ie Group photo: Rodney Brady (R. Brady Construction); Peter McGonigle (Craft Studio Architects); Finbarr Daly (Enterprise Monaghan); Siobhan Sherry – Food Hub Manager; Finbarr Dunwoody (FJD Quantity Surveyors) Note to Editor : For more information, please contact Enterprising Monaghan. E: Info@enterprisingmonaghan.ie T: 047 75255

Delighted to announce Our newest tenant, Uisce Eireann, has some fantastic job openings right here at MTEK, Monaghan. If you are seeking a fresh and thrilling career opportunity, they've got a wide range of positions waiting for you. Uisce Éireann – Irish Water - Professional local based jobs in County Monaghan with attractive reward package. Uisce Éireann offers a wide and exciting range of challenges in an environment where talented, passionate people are encouraged to live our values of collaboration, safety, customer service, performance and integrity. Along with a competitive salary, our employees enjoy career progression and employee assistance programmes. Uisce Éireann is currently recruiting staff to fill roles at Technical Operations Specialist, Technical Operation Treatment Specialist, Team Leader, Efficiencies Lead, Operations Inspectors ( Asst Engineer, Exec Engineer, Senior Executive Engineer, Senior Engineer) in network operations, plant maintenance and many other areas. We have roles in administration, finance, compliance, and H&S. Many of these posts may be based here in County Monaghan. For further information visit. https://www.water.ie/about/careers/

Review by Shauna McCrudden Anyone going into this brand-new Exorcist film will no doubt have high expectations. The original Exorcist, which was released in 1973, is a classic, not only in the horror genre, but also in the true sense of the word. It was the first horror film to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards including for Best Picture, and took home two gongs on the night. It made a household name of child star Linda Blair along with being a huge box office success. It started the trend of exorcism films, of which there are too many to count now, and was the poster child for ‘the controversial movie’. It should be easy to make a sequel to this. But the Exorcist film franchise has been fraught with lacklustre scripts and diminishing returns. You might not even know there’s already been four sequels and a TV series to boot! But now director David Gordon Green, responsible for bringing back the Halloween series of films to great success, has tried his hand at The Exorcist. Ignoring all previous sequels, The Exorcist: Believer is set in 2023, 50 years after the original event took place. It follows Victor Fielding, whose 13-year-old daughter Angela and her friend Katherine go missing one night. They show up three days later with no memory of where they were, or knowledge of time having passed. They then start to show signs of demonic possession, forcing their parents to start to believe the unimaginable. On paper, this sounds like the start of a promising exorcism film. But in action, this is the least exciting of any exorcism film in recent years. And that’s not a great thing for a film series which is supposed to be the daddy of all. And it’s certainly not great news for Universal who just spent $400 million on the rights to the franchise! They need this to be a success, but the movie doesn’t even know what it wants to be. It felt as if a producer watched the original, saw that it had a possessed little girl in it, and decided that the sequel should have TWO possessed little girls in it! There, that’ll do. But no, it won’t do. It’s impossible not to compare this to the original as Believer goes out of its way to replicate everything from it. They even brought back Ellen Burstyn, who played Chris MacNeil, the mother of possessed Regan in The Exorcist, for what amounts to a cameo role before she’s abruptly written out. The original was about what the title suggests, the Exorcist. It wasn’t about how scary Regan could be, and I’m not sure this movie quite grasps what made the original so frightening. It was an examination of faith and of parenting. The possession was a symbolism of puberty. This movie tries to do all of those things, but in a jumbled fashion. They bring different faiths into the equation, Catholicism, Haitian Hoodoo, a vague Christian denomination, along with spiritualism, and all these different faiths are used in the exorcism. But why? The movie itself doesn’t know. Is the demon supposed to be afraid of all religions and practices? Sure, why not? There are plenty of jump scares here, but none that are memorable. There’s some neck breaking, vomit, and little girls being creepy as is expected. So, anyone simply looking for that before Halloween will probably be happy. But there are incredibly strange ‘moral’ messages for the main characters to learn which left me utterly confused as to what the movie was trying to say to the audience. You’ll get some jumps, but absolutely none of it lingers. Grade: C-

Review by Shauna McCrudden- GRADE A Brand-new Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon, was always going to be controversial. But thankfully, Scorsese has famously never shied away from controversy. And honestly, I didn’t expect to feel this moved. Based on a nonfiction book about a real crime, the Osage murders, which took place in the early 20th century in Osage County in Oklahoma, this film is not afraid of showing the brutality of these true crimes. The story begins with the Osage tribe becoming incredibly rich due to oil deposits discovered under their land. After this, white businessman and ‘true friend’ of the Osage Nation, William King Hale (Robert De Niro) hatches a plot to brutally murder numerous members of the tribe so he could gain their money. He recruits his nephew, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) to orchestrate this plot by having him marry Osage tribe member Molly (Lily Gladstone) who will inherit huge sums. One-by-one the Osage people are gunned down, poisoned, or mysteriously made ill. Molly's entire family starts dying around her, until she too starts to fall sick. And the all-white law enforcement and politicians don’t seem to care at all about these obviously suspicious deaths. This film is horrifying, as you might expect. But also, beautifully poignant. And Scorsese’s trademark dark humour is more on point than ever – you’ll find yourself chuckling away at the most twisted lines. Watching it, you just know this will be a big winner during awards season. This is Scorsese’s greatest film in years, and while De Niro turned in a great performance in The Irishman a few years ago, this film feels like another Raging Bull or Taxi Driver – he is a master here in the role of the villainous King Hale. Leonardo DiCaprio is also as solid as he’s ever been, continuing to prove he’s one of the greatest actors of his generation, while looking his absolute worst with yellow teeth and greasy hair. But it’s Lily Gladstone’s performance as Molly which really sets this film apart. She plays her with such raw humanity and vulnerability – when she screams in her grief, you feel what she feels. She’s a real find and as the Native American lead in this film, she bears the weight of responsibility of bringing the victims to life. That brings us to the controversy – the movie is not told through the eyes of the Osage people. It shows them as people to feel empathy for and you fall for the characters, but the movie follows white man Ernest and the choices he makes. It shows that he truly believes his love for Molly, while simultaneously plotting to murder her and her entire family. But this is actually a remarkable choice from Scorsese. The film is telling a story of evil. Evil is depicted in many ways, from the calculated plotting of Hale to possibly the most disturbing, the pathetic evil of Ernest. Ernest continues to proclaim he loves Molly and his children with her, and yet he easily goes along with his uncle’s manipulations. When Hale says jump, Ernest asks how high. But Ernest doesn’t think he’s that bad and his greasiness comes across quite clearly even in Di Caprio’s appearance. You even find yourself sympathising with him, until you just can’t anymore. It’s rather chilling. But remember, this film is 3 hours and 26 minutes long. I didn’t feel the time passing as the story is just so engrossing, but you might find it a little too long. But if you have ever watched three episodes of your favourite show in one sitting, you can make it through this! Grade: A

Five Nights at Freddy’s Review by Shauna McCrudden The iconic indie horror game, 'Five Nights at Freddy's,' which has been popular with gamers for nearly 10 years, has finally made a jump to the big screen! A story featuring scary, haunted animatronics that hunt people down at night which has been marked as 15A is going to be scary right? Well, not so much. Think of this like a ‘horror’ film for those who don’t like horror. There are creepy moments and extremely violent scenes, for sure, and the acting is all top-notch, but this is a film you could show a 10-year-old. And that does appear to be their target audience as the game is still very popular with the younger crowd. But what it lacks in scares, it makes up for in story. A troubled security guard Mike ( The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson) begins working the security night shift at old Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. While spending his night on the job, he realises Freddy's animatronic creatures, including Freddy himself, along with a duck, a fox and even an animatronic cupcake!, are coming to life on their own. And they’re not as cuddly as they look. The film delves into Mike’s home life as he struggles to act as guardian for his little sister Abby. Mike’s little brother had been kidnapped and never seen again in the 80s, and this haunts Mike into adulthood, and affects his relationship with his sister now. This familial main plotline has a lot of focus on it, which is rare for this type of film, but it keeps the story very emotional and personal, so it doesn’t have to resort to cheap scares to fill the runtime. However, as a horror fan, and for a film which was released the weekend before Halloween, I wanted far more scares. The first 45 minutes feel like set up for a better conclusion than what we got. The horror elements aren’t fully utilised. This is a story which heavily involves literal dead children, and yet it’s still not scary! A creepy idea, but terrible execution. But…entertaining, nonetheless. The cast, including Hutcherson, Scream’s Matthew Lillard, and You’s Elizabeth Lail, really sell the story and the relationships between the characters too. You won’t be scared, and you might not even remember it after leaving the theatre, but you’ll have a good time eating some popcorn! Grade: B-

The Miracle Club Review by Shauna McCrudden A cute Irish-based film with big stars attached? Sign me up…even if it’s a little boring! The Miracle Club stars Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith and Laura Linney and centres around several women living in 1960s Dublin who each have a reason to escape their small suburb and find a miracle in the sacred French town of Lourdes. But once they get there, emotions run deep, and the three women have to escape their pasts. The movie quickly starts off showing us a Hollywood version of 60s Ireland. The men rule and the women look after the children in a small town of stray gossip and religious-soaked judgements. An Ireland that Chrissie (Linney) left many years ago after she was banished to the US by Eileen (Bates) and Lil (Smith). All this plot and character set-up made me think the rest of the movie was going to be truly moving and even funny. But despite being classed as a comedy, this certainly feels like something other than a comedy. It’s more of a light-hearted drama. There are attempts at jokes, but more as palate-cleansers after heavy scenes rather than anything that would entice a chuckle – ‘oh my, the leads’ husbands are left at home and have to take care of the children. Their cooking skills are terrible, what will they do?’ It’s a laugh riot… But that’s not to say this film is entirely without depth. The main actresses, ignoring some accent hiccups, are all excellent and have nice chemistry with each other. Lil and Chrissie’s story was very touching, despite needing more focus. And Eileen’s personal story is an all-too-familiar fear for many women. But I’m not sure what the overall theme is here – friendship; the idea that miracles can happen if you make them happen; or is it redemption? It’s all a bit muddled and wrapped up in sentiment hoping you don’t notice. But despite some odd choices (who exactly made the decision to give Kathy Bates and Stephen Rea, both actors in their mid-70s, children who look under 10?!), this is still quite a heart-warming story. If you want a relaxing Sunday evening movie that doesn’t stress you out, then you can’t really go wrong with this one. Grade: B-

Review by Shauna McCrudden Another day, another Marvel film. But this time it’s the sequel to the billion-dollar earner and the studio’s first female superhero movie, 2019’s Captain Marvel . For her second outing, this movie focuses on Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), who is shouldering the burden of protecting the universe and feeling very isolated while doing so. But when her duties send her to investigate a wormhole, her powers become entangled with two other superheroes, Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel (Iman Vellani) and Carol’s ‘niece’, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), to form the Marvels. First the positives: this movie is as entertaining as any other movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). If you like superheroes, you will definitely like this. The characters and relationships feel fleshed out and likeable, they have fun superpowers, and there are big, beautiful battles on colourful planets. And with its intriguing ending and mid-credits scenes, you know exciting things are still to come. But now, the negatives: the pacing is a little all over the place, especially in the third act. The plot is chaotic at times to the point that it makes you think the creators were throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. For example, the characters decide to go to a singing planet as they believe the villain wants something there. We meet what seems like important characters and find out a little about Carol’s past adventures. But after a 10-minute battle ensues…everyone just ups and leaves, good and bad guys alike. The planet is never mentioned again, and it feels like it was there just to pad the runtime. Another negative (or a positive depending on how you look at it!) is how dependent this film is on fans being up-to-date with every single Marvel project. For context, this is the 33rd film in the franchise and the 42nd project overall if you include the nine streaming shows. It is not only a sequel to Captain Marvel , but also a continuation of two TV shows, Ms Marvel and WandaVision , with Kamala and Monica crossing over from their respective shows. It also references Samuel L Jackson’s Secret Invasion series and even the Hawkeye show. There is plenty of talk of the Kree and Skrulls, which is easy to understand from this story alone. Still, if you are unfamiliar with any other recent project, you might find it confusing as to why anyone cares about these alien characters and why Carol is so involved! But the standout here is Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan. Fresh off her own show, the Ms Marvel actress is perfectly cast and brings much-needed enthusiasm and energy. Her love and fan adoration of Carol brings a lot of humour to what could potentially be ho-hum scenes otherwise. Going by the ending, it seems Marvel Studios definitely knows what a diamond they have on their hands with both Kamala and Monica clearly being set up to lead major movies in the future. But strangely, despite being the lead, Carol has no such set-up. But hopefully, we get to see Captain Marvel fly again. Grade: B+

Reporting to: Chief Executive, Enterprising Monaghan Overall Responsibility: To ensure all accounting records are accurate and kept up to date computer information systems are aligned and maintained on a daily basis in line with agreed parameters and formats. The role is required to undertake a number of activities across accounting, finance and taxation with the objective of ensuring that all financial information is accurate and timely while also analysed efficiently as required by the management team. Key activities: Banks Generate and record daily movements, transfers on all bank accounts. Reconciliations of all bank accounts. Maintenance of all cheque books and payments of BACS, EFT and manual payments of all financial transactions. Creditors Manage payments of creditors after 30 days, where all process and accompanying documentation has been satisfied, checking goods and services. Reconciliation to Creditors statements, with analysis and totalling of payments (cheques, EFT etc) in euro and sterling. Debtors Reconciliation of a debtors, recording sales and receipts, rec, ensuring payments on an agreed monthly basis. Ensure regular debtors (tenants) are on direct debits. Establish a system of all ad hoc bookings are paid by credit card at time of booking Wages Wages – Input and Control of Time management / Sage Micropay system Calculation and input of all wages, payslips, control reports and general ledger analysis spreadsheet. Exchequer account system – daybook postings etc., paying Revenue by due dates, all deductions of VAT, Income Tax and PRSI. Trial Balance – monthly journals to include depreciation and amortisation schedules. Reports In conjunction with the CEO, generate a series of reports for: CEO Board Revenue From time to time challenge the timeliness of report and their usefulness and recommend or suggest changes. Be compliant with the protection of all data in accordance with GDPR, including the protection of passwords. Teamwork & Flexibility As a team member of an enterprising organisation show flexibility in terms of tasks and collaboration with work colleagues. Willingness to participate in role development and training in-house and external. Authorisation and Audits A system of authorisation and approvals for transactions and payments will be agreed to protect you and the organisation from fraudulent activities. Have records in good order and available for inspections and audits. Cooperate with audit teams. Salary: A competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and relevant experience will be offered. Closing date: 5pm Monday 4th September Email applications and queries to Mr David Wright, David Consulting Ltd; E: david@consultwright.com ; T: 086 2557851