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Article‘I can’t live beside this’

A Drogheda pen­sioner has spoken about the “huge dis­tress” he is exper­i­en­cing as a new social hous­ing devel­op­ment is built next to his home in Castle Manor. Kieran Tyrell (69) con­tac­ted the Drogheda Inde­pend­ent to high­light a “ser­i­ous...

ArticleSlane res­id­ents demand at least €100k for local clubs from Combs gigs

Article‘I think I’ll have to sell my home’

A Drogheda pen­sioner has spoken out about his fears of a “ser­i­ous loss of pri­vacy” as a new social hous­ing devel­op­ment takes shape beside his home. Kieran Tyrell, a long-time res­id­ent of Castle Manor on the Bal­ly­makenny Road, says the scale...

ArticleRes­tor­a­tion of 18km of spawn­ing beds on Boyne shows early suc­cess

The world fam­ous Boyne sal­mon is slowly being saved. A massive project to restore and rehab­il­it­ate the fish’s spawn­ing beds in the river Boyne catch­ment area appears to be work­ing. The Inland Fish­er­ies spent the past five years restor­ing...