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“Waiting months-on-end for broadband is simply not good enough” Fianna Fáil Councillor, Stephen McKee, has secured a meeting with Cormac McCann, the Broadband Officer for County Meath, to raise issues around broadband affecting residents across South Drogheda & East Meath. After McKee brought the topic up at the recent Area Meeting, Mr McCann has agreed to…

“It looks likely that we are going to lose another summer without a cent being spent”  Deputy Fergus O’Dowd has said that further delays to works on the promised Mell Walkway are likely and he puts this down to Louth County Council providing the relevant Government Department with insufficient information. “This project should have commenced…

Local Sinn Féin TD Imelda Munster has urged the government to stand up for Irish fishermen and end the long-running injustices in the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy. Her comments come after a protest of fishing families took place outside the Convention Centre in Dublin yesterday. “I am calling on the government to stand up for…

Providing life-changing support to brain injury survivors and their families in Louth Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABII) is celebrating 21 years of empowering survivors of brain injury to rebuild their lives. The organisation was set up in 2000 to meet a vital need to provide life-changing, specialised neuro-rehabilitation for individuals in Ireland whose lives had…

48 of complaints to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office in 2020 came from Louth  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) has said that 2020 was a “devastating” year for children and has revealed that it received 48 or 4 per cent of its complaints from Co. Louth. In its Annual Report, 2020 Childhood Paused, the OCO says…

The Irish For Biden Campaign, which was launched in County Louth last year, has welcomed the nomination today of Claire Cronin, a strong support of President Joe Biden and was a key figure in his election campaign, as the new US Ambassador to Ireland.  The Campaign helped mobilise Irish Americans to elect President Biden and was…

Footsteps Youth Programme at Connect Family Resource Centre in Moneymore is currently recruiting participants between the ages of 16-22 from Drogheda who are not in employment, education or training. This is a valuable opportunity for early school leavers to develop the personal and professional skills that will enable them to reach their full potential.  For…

Fishermen from Clogherhead set sail for Dublin yesterday to join colleagues from around the country to take part in a mass protest in Dublin this morning against Irish Government and EU fisheries policies which they say are putting their livelihoods in jeopardy. Cormac Burke, the Chair of the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance (I.F.S.A.), a relatively…

Community Historian Brendan Matthews will lead a History and Heritage walking tour of Drogheda on Wednesday evening June 30th beginning at the old Jail in Scarlet Street (formerly Eddie`s Hardware), at 7.30pm. Titled “From the Drogheda Jail to Bolton Square”, Brendan will begin the evening speaking about the origins of the prison and some of…

A free walk-in COVID-19 testing site opened today at the Marshes Shopping Centre Car Park 1, Marshes Avenue, Dundalk, A91 XD65 and will operate for five days. No appointment is necessary to avail of this free service. The opening hours are: Wednesday, June 23rd 1pm-7pm Thursday, June 24th 11am-8pm Friday, June 25th 11am-8pm Saturday, June…