Drogheda Life

Dabbling in the supernatural can be a dangerous business – as the Duleek Drama Players discover in their new production Death by Fatal Murder. The comedy murder mystery by Peter Gordon opens in Drogheda’s Droichead Arts Centre on Tuesday, April 8th and runs until Saturday, 12th. Set in an English country house during WW11, this humorous…

  Drogheda Tidy Towns are holding their annual Boyne River Clean up on Sunday April 6th this year and are looking for volunteers to lend a hand. This was a hugely successful event last year with close to 65 volunteers turning out to help. A huge amount of rubbish was collected on the day from…

A delegation of students from the prestigious University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy visited the Boyne Valley earlier this month to experience first-hand the region’s rich agricultural heritage and innovative food businesses. Study trips provide students with a unique opportunity to take the theory learned in the classroom and apply it in the field, allowing…

Details of the 2025 Drogheda Arts Festival, which takes place from May 2nd to 4th with an exciting line-up of live music, exhibitions and street performances, have just been announced. Showcasing both local and international talent, this year’s festival will be a vibrant fusion of art, culture, and creativity featuring a diverse array of performances…

A free zinemaking workshop for young adults is scheduled to take place at Drogheda Library during the Easter holidays. In this workshop, participants will explore some creative ideas behind zinemaking and DIY publishing with Rita Hynes from Drogheda Zine Fair. In an open session using collage, drawing and sewing, we will create an eight-page folded…

It’s a scourge on this beautiful island of ours that some people, thankfully a minority, think that it is in any way acceptable or clever to dump their rubbish in the countryside – or in any other public place. The latest incident of this disgusting activity locally has taken place at the scenic Baltray Estuary…

Sarah Jane Hughes, an electronic and computer engineering student from Drogheda and two colleagues from Galway University, Ruchit Ghandi and Ethan O’Brien, have won a prize of €6,000 for an app they designed called Peer Power, which encourages energy sharing in communities. Their project narrowly missed out to team Todhchaí Glas from University College Dublin, who…

  Drogheda and District Chamber, in association with M1 Drogheda Chamber Skillnet, hosted a highly successful Jobs and Skills Fair at the Marcy Hotel, West Street. The event focused on all aspects of recruitment, including varied job opportunities across a number of sectors and skills. “The Drogheda region is growing quickly and there are so…

In an escalation of the long-running dispute between health unions and the HSE over staffing levels, Fórsa and the INMO have served notice of a one-day work stoppage at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, to take place next Thursday, 3rd April. Fórsa and the INMO served notice of the stoppage this morning (Thursday), ahead…

The Mayor of Drogheda, Cllr. Paddy Mc Quillan, has thanked everyone involved in making the Patrick’s Day Parade in the town such a major success. “Those of us that were lucky to be in Drogheda on 17th March were truly treated to the amazing spectacle that was the St Patrick’s Day Parade. And what a…