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Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has published the final progress report of the Drogheda Implementation Plan: ‘Drogheda: Building a Bridge to a Better Future’. This progress report focuses on implementation of the recommendations contained in the 2021 report, Drogheda: Creating a Bridge to a Better Future, which was published in response to rising concerns regarding crime and fear of crime in...

A “shift in gangland, rural and drug crime” across Louth must be met with action” according to one Louth TD. Deputy Paula Butterly welcomed the news this week that Local Community Safety Partnerships are to be launched across the country, including one new LCSP for Louth. It will replace the former Joint Policing Committee, wound up in 2024 following recommendations that multi-agency structures ar...

People in rural Ireland are travelling for hours in order to minimise the risk of being spotted getting tested or treated for STIs.  Last month, the Government launched a National Sexual Health Strategy 2025 – 2035, which aims to ensure that everyone “has access to high quality sexual health information, education and services throughout life”.  However, consultant Dr Aisling Loy warned...

Louth Labour TD, Ged Nash has slammed the government and the HSE for what he said is a growing crisis in providing orthodontist services for children in Louth. Deputy Nash said: “It is clear to me that there is a crisis in Drogheda and Dundalk and across the county, in terms of the provision of orthodontic services for children. “After a number of complaints to my office from constituents on the i...

The court of Appeal has said it intends to refer Conor McGregor’s application to withdraw “fresh evidence” that he had sought to introduce as part of his civil case appeal to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).  Lawyers for Hand had asked the court to make the referral after seeking to introduce material related to the matter to the court today. The three-judge court confirmed this aft...

A portrait of President Michael D Higgins was removed from display in Belfast City Hall and placed in storage at the request of DUP Lord Mayor Tracy Kelly, Belfast City Council has said. It emerged at a council meeting on Tuesday evening that the picture of the President, which used to hang alongside a similar portrait of King Charles in the Lord Mayor’s parlour, was no longer there. In a statemen...

The Chair of the Meath on Track group, Peadar Tóibín TD, has asked members of the public to lobby government TDs in the comg days and weeks to ensure that the funding allocations under the National Development Plan review prioritise a Navan-Dublin rail line.  In response to a Parliamentary Question from Deputy Tóibín, the Minister for Public Expenditure has said that in allocating funding und...

There was a 23% increase in the cost of settling motor insurance claims during the first half of last year compared to the second half of 2023, according to latest figures from the Central Bank's National Claims Information Database (NCID). It shows the cost of motorclaims settled between January and June 2024 was €414 million, with the Central Bank attributing the higher cost to an increase in da...

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The average price of a newly built house in Louth is almost €400,000 with disability services that provide residential services cannot get funds to purchase the houses they need, Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú has told the Dáil. In a debate last week about housing, the Sinn Féin TD said the average price for a new build in Louth is €385,000 – the average price in the State is €321,911, an increase of over...

Ex-Minister Mary Hanafin wants to become President of Ireland and has thrown her hat in the ring to become Fianna Fail’s candidate. However, the Fianna Fail stalwart will face a battle to get on the ballot as she faces competition from another ex-Minister and possibly even a former Taoiseach. With just four months left before an election has to be held, the race for the Aras is finally starting to...

Dundalk Chamber recently formally submitted its comprehensive proposal to the National Development Plan (NDP) 2025 review, highlighting Dundalk’s critical role as a Regional Growth Centre within the Dublin-Belfast Economic Corridor (DBEC) and calling for urgent infrastructure investment to unlock sustainable regional growth. Paddy Malone from Dundalk Chamber of Commerce spoke to us this morning on...

The family of missing man Mark ‘Rubber’ Duffy fear he has been killed and secretly buried by a drugs gang. Mark’s distraught sister Leia Duffy, 39, made the claim as detectives continue to investigate the dad of two’s disappearance on October 3, 2022. Leia spoke to us this morning on The Agenda about this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the cost of almost 3,000 social homes which were to be delivered, and have now been delayed over value for money concerns, were so high that if they had gone ahead then the Minister for Housing would have been "up before the Public Accounts Committee". The delivery of the homes was delayed after the minister pulled the plug on funding for a number of projects whic...

None of the members of Belfast rap group Kneecap will be prosecuted over comments allegedly calling for British Conservative Party MPs to be killed. The Metropolitan Police has decided not to prosecute the band over the comments made at a concert in November 2023. A clip posted on social media showed an unidentified member of the group saying: “Kill your local MP. The only good Tory is a dead Tory...

The moves, which were first reported by the Sunday Times over the weekend, revisit attempts by the previous government which were not enacted before the election. The changes also seek to put the system for determining eligibility for social housing and emergency accommodation by foreign nationals on a statutory footing. The legislation, which is expected to go to Cabinet in the coming weeks, will...

Officials from Louth County Council met with elected members of Dundalk Municipal District on Thursday, 26th June, to discuss recent environmental concerns raised about Blackrock Beach. The meeting addressed several key issues, including the build-up of seaweed, the designation of bathing areas and water quality. Council officials shared updates from consultations with the Environmental Protection...