Category: News
A special guest for Drogheda Creative Writers
Drogheda Creative Writers are honoured to welcome a very special guest speaker, Yuyutsu RD Sharma, a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator to their meeting in The Living Room, Sarsfields Bar on Monday October 25th at 7.30 pm. Yuyutsu is a “big star in the world of poetry”, as described by well-travelled group member Emer…
Training pays off for Ciaran as he completes the Boyne Valley Camino
Most of us will be familiar with the sense of achievement that we feel when we complete something that has really pushed us to our limits. It’s a good feeling. This sense of achievement was recently experienced by Ciaran Treanor on his completion of the 25kms Boyne Valley Camino. Ciaran is a resident with St….
Louth and Meath Councils plus HSE urge everyone to get vaccinated
“We urge anyone who has not yet availed of a vaccine to get it“ Top HSE officials and the CEOs of both Louth and Meath County Councils have issued a joint statement urging people who have not yet received their COVID-19 vaccinations to do so now to improve vaccination uptake in the region and strengthen…
Mayor welcomes new text alert service from Louth County Council
Get prior notice of water disruptions, boil water notices, localized road works etc. Mayor of Drogheda Councillor James Byrne says he is delighted to see swift action from Louth County Council in partnering up with Mapalerter following his call at the July monthly meeting that it improve its communications with the public. “It is now…
New group seeks information on barn owl nesting sites
An exciting new project is being started by local volunteers to find out more about the nesting sites of Barn Owls in County Louth. In association with the Barn Owl Project, guidance from the Louth branch of Bird Watch Ireland, Louth Nature Trust and initiated by the wildlife rehabilitators of Drogheda Animal Rescue, a group…
Electric atmosphere expected as Drogheda Motor Show returns to Laurence Street
The Drogheda Motor Show returns to Laurence Street next Saturday, October 23rd, and this year the theme of the event is ‘Evolution of the Motor Car in Drogheda’, a fascinating look back over 120 years of motoring in the town. Sixty new and shiny motor vehicles from 15 manufacturers will be parking up on the…
Ceremony in memory of Bettina, murdered in Donore 20 years ago
A small but heart-felt ceremony took place yesterday in Donore in memory of Bettina Poeschel, a 28-year-old German woman who was murdered twenty years ago just outside the village. The man who organised the ceremony, former councillor and mayor of Drogheda Frank Godfrey, who lives just yards from the scene of the murder, said that…
Louth man gets his dream job – penning a book about Irish soccer
Barry Landy is a freelance journalist from Ardee with a passion for Irish football. So, when he pitched the idea of writing a book about how Irish footballers have made their mark on the international soccer scene, it was more a gesture of hope than expectation. Needless to say, when New Island Books took him…
Southside Project girls take on the Daffodil Challenge
Girls from Drogheda’s Southside Project have taken on the challenge to plant 400 daffodil bulbs in the Rowan Heights area where their clubhouse is situated, nurture them and sell the flowers in the run up to next year’s Daffodil Day. The idea for “The Daffodil Challenge” first came to Independent Senator Sharon Keogan in 2019…
North-East Regional Enterprise Plan gets the green light
The North-East Regional Enterprise Plan to 2024, which is seen as a key milestone in the promotion of collaboration among regional stakeholders in the North-East, has been approved by the steering committee. The Plan sees the coming together of enterprise development agencies, Local Enterprise Offices, and the private sector to work together on initiatives that…