Drogheda Life

Under glorious sunshine and clear skies, the 2025 Boyne Swim took place on Saturday, July 12th, in Association with Aura Leisure, attracting 154 swimmers from across Ireland to Drogheda for what is now considered one of the country’s most iconic open water events. Swimmers took to the historic River Boyne in pursuit of the Ronan…

Louth County Council has announced the completion of four new high-quality social housing units at Mullagh Close, Clogherhead. These three-bedroom, two-storey homes were delivered through a turnkey acquisition from Havsutsikt Limited and form part of Phase 2 of a 12-unit development. This project is funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH)…

The Yellowbatter Boys Club, or Lourdes Community and Recreation Centre to give it it’s proper title, was closed in 2020 after many years of service at the very heart of the community, but now it is set to re-open. The building has been given a new lease of life with internal refurbishment works carried out…

Boyne Hockey Club’s season officially came to an end on Saturday, with a packed schedule of junior matches. This annual family day out at the club gives members a chance to catch up but also gives the players a chance to mix the teams up and even play new positions. With over 50 children competing…

Fine Gael local election candidate Shóna McManus took Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Euro election candidate Nina Carberry on a walk down West Street and Narrow West Street last Saturday to show them the serious levels of dereliction that have been allowed to develop there. Ms. McManus emphasised the gravity of the situation, stating, “Narrow…

The Baltray Little Tern Conservancy project is to receive €36,550 from a €2.7m national fund for local biodiversity projects announced today. Altogether some €118,885 will be spent on eight projects in Louth by the fund which was announced by Malcolm Noonan TD, Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform. Operated by the National Parks…

The life and work of the First World War poet Francis Ledwidge, who died in Belgium 107 years ago this month, was celebrated yesterday with a programme of music and poetry in the garden of his former home in Janeville just outside the village of Slane. The event, an established occasion in the County Meath…

By Andy Spearman There has been much talk lately about whether or not to strip the former leader of the Christian Brothers in Ireland, Edmund Garvey, of the freedom of Drogheda because of the abuses, sexual and physical, perpetrated by members of that order on young people in their charge going back decades. There can…

Calls for support for housing demonstration in Dublin on Saturday  People Before Profit’s Drogheda representative Michael Tuohy, is urging people to attend the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) housing demonstration in Dublin at 1pm this Saturday, 5th July at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin 1.  “Last week it was confirmed that homeless figures once…

Love and laughter amid the bombs and bullets of the Bogside  These days Harry Toye lives happily in Laytown with his wife Maureen, a retired midwife of Our Lady of Lourdes hospital, but his life has not always been so tranquil. Born in the Bogside in Derry, Harry lived through the worst of ‘the troubles’ and witnessed much…