Category: News

The Farm Safety Action Plan 2021-2024 aims to reduce fatalities, serious injuries and ill health in the agriculture sector. The Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee (FSPAC) has today published its latest Action Plan for 2021-2024. The FSPAC is made up of representatives and experts from a variety of relevant agriculture organisations and is tasked with…

Culture Connect, an intercultural non-profit organisation based in the Barbican Centre in William Street, Drogheda, has launched a new Cultural Ambassador Programme to train individuals from diverse ethnic groups to serve as Ambassadors of their communities living in this country. Culture Connect provide a platform for cultural diversity, friendship thus promoting interculturalism, community cohesion, racial…

NetwellCASALA, a joint venture between Dundalk Institute of Technology, the HSE, and Louth County Council is developing and testing new technologies aimed at supporting people with heart conditions to self-manage their own health and wellbeing. Dr Julie Doyle a director of NetwellCASALA’s, says that new technologies are most helpful if the people they are intended…

Paycheck Plus founder Anne Reilly is a voluntary Lead Entrepreneur  Louth businesswomen are encouraging others from the wee county to join the latest cycle of ACORNS – a highly-successful development initiative to support early-stage female entrepreneurs living in rural Ireland.  The call for applications for the latest cycle of the programme — ACORNS 7 — has been…

Over 200 volunteers from County Meath have already registered Registrations for the Big Beach Clean have only been open a couple of weeks but already more than 5,000 volunteers from all over Ireland have registered to receive free clean-up kits to tackle litter in over 200 different locations.  In County Meath, over 200 volunteers have already signed up to carry out clean-ups in 10 different locations across the county.  The Big…

Termonfeckin Councillor calls on Council to deploy crews to fix potholes Labour Councillor Michelle Hall has said that that she’s been travelling around Ireland this summer and has seen no roads as bad as the ones around Drogheda. “We need to examine why this is and how it can be rectified” she said and revealed…

Following the deaths of six road users in the last 24 hours, An Garda Síochána and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) have issued an urgent appeal to all road users to take greater care on the roads. Hazardous road conditions are likely in the coming days as Met Eireann has issued weather warnings for heavy…

We’ve been bombarded with bad news for the past 18 months. Every day there’s the grim statistics of Covid deaths and infections. Then there’s climate change and war and pestilence and politics. It’d drive you to the drink. Sadly that is what has happened. People are drinking at home more and what used to be…

Proceeds of “Ireland’s Call” video presented to hospital boss to be used for a recreation area for staff “I know you couldn’t help us in a hands-on way but I cannot thank you enough for what you did for us. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, the money that you have donated…

Gardaí are currently at the scene of a fatal road traffic collision involving three vehicles that occurred on the R152 at Keenogue, Duleek, at approximately 6:40 this morning. The driver, a man in his 40s, and only occupant of a van involved in the collision was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his…