Staying awake at Council meetings can be difficult at the best of times but with the added detachment of zoom and the dreariness of the proceedings, it is nigh on impossible to give them your full attention. But when Labour Councillor Fiachra MacRaghnaill started talking last Monday at the Drogheda Borough meeting about his vision of a…

More than €11,000 raised in just over 12 hours There has been an outpouring of support after arson destroyed the storage room and nearly all of the equipment and gear used by 270 children who are members of Drogheda Boys and Girls FC. The club’s storage container, on Marley’s Lane, had flames coming from it…

You know you’re getting old when the Guards seem to be much younger than you. On Thursday I got that feeling when I met Garda Sudita Zalli who is a member of the Community policing section based at Drogheda Garda Station. I’m too polite to ask her age but Garda Zalli is a charming young…

Having been inspired by a documentary by broadcaster and natural historian, David Attenborough, a group of Transition Year students at St. Oliver’s Community College, have embarked on a project to create a biodiversity garden in their school. The project is part of a national programme run by Young Social Innovators which is a non-profit organisation…

Labour TD Ged Nash has called on the Department of Education to ‘get a move on’ with progressing planning applications for both the extension to the temporary buildings at the Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School on the Mill Road and the planned permanent school facility on the site. “Senior Meath County Council officials have confirmed…

A temporary ‘walk-in, no appointment necessary’ COVID-19 test centre for people with no symptoms will open at Bolton Square Carpark, Bolton Street, Drogheda (Eircode: A92 DKR0) on Tuesday 18th May for three days. The free COVID-19 testing service will operate from 10am to 6pm daily, from Tuesday May 18th to Thursday May 20th inclusive. The HSE’s Department of Public…

Drogheda Urban Labour Councillor, Fiachra MacRaghnaill, has called for plans proposed by the Labour Party to Louth County Council to be expedited following a surge of antisocial behaviour in Rathmullen Park. The Labour infill development proposal for Rathmullen Park, would see housing used to block a problematic gap instead of a wall and would turn…

‘Republic of Shame’ author Caelainn Hogan to host discussion with survivors Survivors of the mother and baby home institutions will share their experiences at a live online event, Republic of Shame, hosted by journalist Caelainn Hogan and presented by Droichead Arts Centre and the LIVE Network on Thursday, 27th May at 8.00 pm.  With the ongoing legacy of the…

Switchboard at Our Lady of Lourdes is out of service due to cyber attack on the HSE Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, one of the country’s busiest acute hospitals, has said that the cyber attack has had ‘a major impact on all IT systems,’ and that the main hospital switchboard is out of operation. In…

With the reopening of society this month and an outdoor summer season being encouraged by the Government, Labour Councillor Michelle Hall is calling on local pubs, farms and businesses with parking spaces to allow overnight motorhome parking.  Councillor Hall, who owns a converted campervan herself, says that the potential boost to the local economy by…