Drogheda Life

Focus Ireland has launched its annual Shine A Light campaign, the annual sleep out takes place on October 13, and is proudly supported by Bord Gáis Energy. The campaign is calling on business leaders, companies, employees, and individuals to come together to kick start real change, by sleeping out against homelessness to help raise funds for Focus…

An Taisce’s Clean Coasts have announced the winning photographers of the 2025 Love Your Coast photography competition and two photographs taken in county Meath secured places in the final. A photograph taken by Dave Stanley, no stranger to this competition, showing a man strolling at sunset on Bettystown Beach with his dog titled “What a…

The lifeboat crew at Clogherhead RNLI rescued a lone kayaker on Saturday (6 March) after he capsized near the rocky headland and was unable to get back on his craft due to the sea conditions. Luckily a local fishing vessel was nearby and, although unable to offer assistance as the casualty was dangerously close to…

  The Sonairte Ecological Centre in Laytown are holding their Christmas Fair this Saturday, December the 7th. With over 20 stalls of beautiful crafts, free mulled wine on entry, a raffle in aid of Drogheda Animal Rescue, ‘sing a song for Santa’ kids karaoke, this event is very popular every year. Step into the festive…

The Siena nuns made a rare excursion into Drogheda yesterday morning to visit the groundbreaking Saint Oliver Plunkett exhibition at the Drogheda Civic Offices in Fair Street. The brave Siena nuns were custodians of Saint Oliver’s head for almost two hundred years, through very troubled times, before it was transferred to St. Peter’s Church in West…

Louth County Council hereby gives notice of the Decision to Extend the duration of the Road Closure of: The L-20018-80 Mount Avenue Dundalk between R-934-0 Castletown Road and R-178-1 Carrickmacross Road to vehicular traffic in order to facilitate the completion of the Construction of new ESB Infrastructure. The extent of the road closure will be from the junction…

Louth County Council hereby gives notice of a road closure at the Old Golf Links Road, Blackrock, Co. Louth to facilitate emergency works – upgrading of foul sewage drainage facilities. The extent of the road closure will be from Monday 11th August to Friday 22nd August. The road will be closed to vehicular through-traffic 24/7…

Sonairte Ecology Centre providing nesting boxes in the woods for endangered owls By Andy Spearman Over the years Mosney Village has offered a Céad Míle Fáilte to thousands of people from around the world seeking refuge from conflict or natural disaster. Recently though, they have been preparing for a completely different type of visitor –…

Drogheda Credit Union and its members have hit the €20,000 fundraising mark in their recent campaign to raise funds for UNICEF Ireland’s Türkiye and Syria Earthquake appeal. The Donation Day, which took place last month, had members throughout the communities in Drogheda, Trim, East Meath and Dunleer generously contribute to the important appeal raising €10,000,…

“It would do Councillors better to work with the staff instead of attacking us” The Chief Executive of Louth County Council (LCC), Joan Martin, has rejected calls for her resignation over the Council’s handling of the failed application for the Northern Access route for Drogheda and has accused Councillors of sniping at her. Speaking at…