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“The Council needs to find ways to utilise CCTV cameras to catch these criminals dumping their rubbish.” The illegal dumping of rubbish around Drogheda needs to stop. Not only is it disgusting to look at, it is also ugly and unhealthy and is dragging what was once an attractive heritage town into the gutter. Civic…

Deputy Ged Nash has been in contact with several of the most senior HSE officials in the country this morning in an effort to resolve the failure by the agency to execute the scheduled delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to the No. 47 Medical Practice on Fair Street.  “As a result of my engagement with very…

After climate change, the biggest single issue impacting the lives of people in Drogheda and Ireland generally, even bigger than the pandemic, is the housing crisis. Yesterday we published an article in which Councillor Joanne Byrne called out the government for failing the people of Louth with housing policies that have resulted in a wait…

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…