Drogheda
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Pricewatch queries: Two sizes fit all, as far as Debenhams is concerned
- Consumer
- April 25, 2016, 01:00
Brian Price starts off his letter to us with a simple question. “Any interest in a disastrous customer service experience with Debenhams?” Yes indeed(...)

Patrick Logue: My past life as a teenage rock god in a shed in Donore
- People
- April 20, 2016, 06:00
Every so often I drift back to the early 1990s, to a shed in Donore, not far from Newgrange, which is just outside Drogheda and just inside Co Meath.(...)

Same-sex couple tell of long fight for marriage equality
- Social Affairs
- April 16, 2016, 01:00
For Anthony Kinahan (34) and Barry Gardiner (36), who met at a disco in Drogheda 17 years ago, today marks the “close of an emotional chapter and the (...)

Garda awarded €20,000 for injuries sustained during arrest of man
- High Court
- April 12, 2016, 12:57
A 35-year-old garda, who broke his right big toe and lost his right thumbnail while detaining a suspect, has been awarded €20,000 compensation in the (...)

To question the Rising is to be found guilty of un-Irish activity
- Opinion
- April 5, 2016, 01:00
Last week I was asked whether I was British. It wasn’t a question. It was an accusation, levelled at me during a discussion on 1916, which I said was (...)

Did our ancestors fight for a country so many would have to leave?
- Generation Emigration
- April 4, 2016, 15:00
My great grandfather, my mother’s mother’s father, was Laurence J Walsh of Duleek Street, Drogheda. Born in 1883, 100 years before me, he would have (...)

Illicit trade in prescription drugs a growing problem for Dublin’s north inner city
- Social Affairs
- April 2, 2016
‘You know what kills me?” says Joe Dowling. “Seeing them dealing at the monument.” Dowling is a senior project worker with Hope (Hands On Peer Educa(...)

Gardaí treating fatal Co Monaghan house fire as suspicious
- Crime & Law
- March 24, 2016, 15:31
Gardaí are treating a house fire in Co Monaghan that killed a 61-year-old man, who had restricted mobility, as suspicious. The incident happened at (...)

Schoolchildren from across Ireland have set out the issues they feel need to be tackled in modern Ireland – such as poverty, unemployment, crime and c(...)

Press Pass Awards winner: The Politics Of Apathy
- Politics
- March 15, 2016, 12:42
Politics is a mess. That’s a well-known fact. The young people, generally, don’t care, and the adults wish they didn’t have to. Career politics has mo(...)