The good people at the Red Door Project have been even busier than usual this month as they have been celebrating Recovery Month.
Their work in the community goes far beyond helping people confront their problems with drugs and alcohol.
Time after time they have come up with projects that are of great benefit to the wider community of which they are part.
Their excellent rehabilitation work in the historic Dale area has been widely praised. The honey produced at the beehives in their back garden is winning great praise from all who have tried it, and there is a general sense that this is an organisation that is going from strength to strength which can only be good for the community in which they operate.
Drogheda Life visited the Red Door last week and a team of volunteers showed me their most recent community project in which they have turned Curry’s Hill, which had been neglected for years and had become a wilderness, into a beautiful, bee-friendly biodiversity garden stretching almost the full length of the hill.
The men responsible for the transformation are proud of their work, and rightly so, this passageway, which runs from Mary Street up to the Old Hill, are part of Drogheda’s heritage.
Pio Smith, who oversaw the project, told Drogheda Life that the work took a lot longer than planned because of delays due to Covid but he was delighted with the results.
They received funding for the project from Louth County Council under their Community Enhancement Scheme and Pio said that the next stage of the plan is to erect an “information station” detailing the people who lived in cottages on Curry’s Hill as listed in the 1901 census.
