Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) has announced that it is to offer a unique, multi-institutional Master of Business (MBS) in Responsible Entrepreneurship, commencing in September 2025.  Funded by the HEA under DkIT’s REsPoNSE initiative (Responsible Entrepreneurship and the Promotion of Novel Approaches to Sustainable Enterprise), this Masters programme will be co-delivered by five leading Irish…

Louth County Council has issued a temporary bathing prohibition at Clogherhead Beach.  This follows elevated results from water sampling carried out on Monday, 14th July. As a result, the beach has been closed until further notice.  An investigation is underway, in coordination with the EPA and HSE, and resampling is scheduled to take place in…

By Andy Spearman The Chairman of the Drogheda Cycling group, Noel Hogan, says Louth County Council are “kicking the can down the road” on implementing plans to install active travel routes in the town and these delays are wasting taxpayer’s money due to increasing costs. His comments come as the government has today announced Phase 2 of their…

Scoil Ui Mhuiri in Dunleer was one of four LMETB secondary schools in Louth that participated, along with and three schools in Belfast, in the cross-border Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Schools Project, a pioneering cross border, cross community peace building initiative. At the Showcase event in Belfast recently, Scoil Uí Mhuirí in Dunleer, O’Fiaich College, Bush Post Primary School, Coláiste Chú Chulainn in Dundalk were joined…

Costs increase in 2025 for both primary and secondary school parents The Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) has published the results of its 2025 Back to School survey which tracks the costs and impacts of children returning to school as well as broader cost of living factors.   Conducted by i-Reach in June 2025, 729…

A year ago today, Don Thornton, a teacher in St. Mary’s school, set out to cycle 11,000 kms this year to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Tredagh Lodge Day Care Centre – that’s one kilometre for each person in Ireland diagnosed with the disease. True to his word, Don has cycled for at least an…

McHugh’s Venue proudly presents Drogheda’s ONLY regular comedy night, Deadly Craic Comedy Club (formally known as the Crescent Comedy Club) on Friday July 25th. We are now in a brand new venue, on a brand new night, with a brand spanking new name!  For around a tenner, on the last Friday of every month, you…

Louth County Council Temporary Closing of Roads – Section 75 Roads Act, 1993 To facilitate Road Improvement Works Louth County Council hereby gives notice of its intention to close the under mentioned roads to public traffic, for short durations of not more than five days from 12th August 2025 to 11h August, 2026 to facilitate Road…

LOUTH COUNTY COUNCIL TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF ROAD Section 75 Roads Act, 1993 (Roads Regulations 1994) Louth County Council hereby gives notice of its intention to close;  The L-20018-80 Mount Avenue Dundalk between R-934-0 Castletown Road and R-178-1 Carrickmacross Road to vehicular traffic to facilitate the construction of a new ESB infrastructure.                                                                                               The extent of the…

A new collection of eight postcards depicting key events in Louth between 1912 and 1921 has been launched by Louth County Council and are available free of charge in your local library. The collection, an initiative of Louth County Council’s arts office, and funded under the Decade of Centenaries programme in 2024, is available through…