Drogheda Life

Last week a dolphin was seen in the Boyne, this week a logboat is making headlines A citizen archaeologist who discovered the world famous ‘Dronehenge’ near Newgrange, county Meath during the heatwave of 2018, appears to have found another potentially significant discovery in the Boyne Valley using a drone – a logboat that could date to…

In light of recent fires causing vast destruction to flora and fauna, Louth County Council is reminding landowners that under the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended, hedge cutting (except in the case of road safety) and burning of gorse or other vegetation is illegal from the 1st March to the 31st August. The Waste Management…

Heather Humphries, T.D., Minister for Rural & Community Development, has announced funding of €2.8m for the redevelopment of the North Louth coastal village of Omeath. “The project will regenerate the heart of the village with improvements to the public realm that will build on the huge tourist potential of the village with the Great Eastern…

Gardaí have arrested a man and seized €24,000 worth of suspected cannabis herb during an intelligence led operation in Drogheda. The operation was conducted by Louth Divisional Drugs Unit based in Drogheda, in conjunction with the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) and Revenue Customs Officers at 11.30am yesterday, Tuesday April 27, 2021….

Deputy Ged Nash has urged the Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, to stop burning through taxpayers’ cash and fast-track the building of a permanent school facility on the Mill Road for the Drogheda Educate Together school community.  “It was only after I revealed that the Department of Education spent over €2.1 million to date…

As the RNLI launches its Mayday Mile fundraiser their figures for 2020 show that the volunteer crew at Clogherhead lifeboat station launched 18 times last year and brought 18 people to safety. Seven of those launches were carried out in the hours of darkness. Nationally, over half (53%) of the charity’s 945 lifeboat launches took…

Sinn Féin Councillor Joanna Byrne has urged cross-party support for calls by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) for greater protections for student renters.  Speaking today in advance of The Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021, drafted by the USI alongside Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin and spokesperson…

Louth County Council aren’t exactly covering themselves in clover of late. A fortnight ago, as we were still coming to terms with the ramifications of their failed PANCR funding application, it emerged that they had been omitted from a €19m Failte Ireland fund to improve facilities for outdoor water-based activities because they hadn’t even applied for it. Now it…

Gardaí are seeking the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of 16-year-old Charmaine Kelly, who is missing from the Rathmullen Road area of Drogheda since last Thursday, 22/04/2021. Charmaine is described as being 5’6″, with brown hair, of slight build with blue eyes. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Gardai in…

Family run business is raffling company shares The first Irish distillery to produce hand sanitizer when Covid arrived last year, is now the first distillery in Ireland to raffle part of the company. Bronagh Conlon of Listoke Distillery says making hand sanitizer, “saved the business; we will always be doing hand sanitizer.” Her daughter Sarah,…