Host a ‘Virtual Bake for Brain Injury’ and raise funds to make a life-changing difference to brain injury survivors Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABII) wants you to help ‘bake’ the world a better place and raise some dough during Brain Awareness Week this March. This annual fundraising event usually takes place within community centres, schools,…

Next week is Local Enterprise Week and Thomas McEvoy, Louth County Council’s Head of Enterprise, has invited local businesses to be part of it.  “Starting on Monday 1st March, Local Enterprise Office Louth are proud to offer a great selection of free online events for business” Thomas said. “We’re also teaming up with our colleagues…

Everyone’s getting fed up with lockdown at this stage but the lovely and very inventive people at the Louth County Library Service have plenty of ways to keep your mind active and your body relaxed. Quite apart from their excellent offering of free e-books and comics they have the following activities coming up in the…

City Group applauds the result of politicians and community campaigning together The Chairperson of the Drogheda City Status Group, Anna McKenna, has applauded the successful campaign led by parents, pupils and staff of Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School (DETSS) saying that it taught the powers that be a hard lesson. The campaign secured the full…

Having moved their public programme activity online, Highlanes Gallery, and a host of artists, art historians, others, as well as audiences from children to adults have been connecting and engaging in old ideas, new ideas, expressions, forms and finding creativity and dynamism and even social connection is still possible now.  Aoife Ruane, Highlanes Gallery Director…

Fianna Faíl Councillor Emma Coffey has called into question sections of the Land Development Agency Bill which, which she says impose an unprecedented obligation on elected Councillors to co-operate with the new agency. “There has never been any legislation which obliges an individual Councillor to co-operate with a body outside of her or his local…

Prize fund increases to €2,000, students asked to complete a 35-day video challenge Seven years ago The Mill Enterprise Hub and supporters launched the Drogheda Young Innovators competition for secondary school students in the Drogheda area. The idea was to encourage teenagers to think like innovators in the fields of business, social enterprise, and technology…

With nearly 5,000 people on the housing list in County Louth and a waiting time of up to 13 years, Councillor Joanna Byrne has said that the Government’s housing policy has “badly failed the people of Drogheda.” The Sinn Féin Councillor was reacting to figures released by Louth County Council on foot of a question…

Irish Water will be carrying out essential valve repair works this week in Merchants Quay, Drogheda and consumers in Constitution Hill to Donor’s Green and surrounding areas may experience low water pressure and/or water outages from today, Monday 22 February, to Thursday 25 February between 9:00am and 6:00pm daily.  It may take 2-3 hours for…

Another man has been arrested by Gardaí in Drogheda investigating the murder of a juvenile in January 2020. The man arrested today is in his mid-20s and is currently detained at Mountjoy Garda station under a Section 42 warrant of Criminal Justice Act, 1999. The man and woman arrested on Wednesday 17th February, 2021 remain…