57 Louth childcare services to benefit from grant funding
Senator Mary Moran has welcomed the announcement that 57 Louth childcare services have been allocated grant funding through the Department of Children and Youth Affairs as part of an overall almost €7...
View ArticleDundalk and Drogheda fans asked to dig deep for Syrian refugees at Friday...
There will be a bucket collection in aid of the Syrian refugees at the Louth derby match between Dundalk FC and Drogheda Utd at Oriel Park on Friday. Senator Mary Moran, who is organising the...
View ArticleGuided walk along Navvy Bank will launch Dundalk Positive Mental Health week...
Dundalk Positive Mental Health Week gets underway this Saturday with a guided walk along the Navvy Bank. Hosted by the Dundalk Positive Mental Health Forum, the fun walk starts at 12 noon and will last...
View ArticleDundalk Parents and Friends EGM tonight
Dundalk Parents and Friends of the Intellectually Disabled will hold an EGM in Partnership Court, off Park Street and the Ramparts, at 7.30pm tonight. The EGM has been called to discuss future housing...
View ArticleSusan to launch debut novel ‘Vanished’ in County Museum tonight
Retired local school teacher Susan McGovern will launch her debut novel in the County Museum at 8pm tonight. Senator Mary Moran is due to speak at the launch of ‘Vanished’, a book which focuses on...
View ArticleDundalk Positive Mental Health Week deemed a great success
The third annual Dundalk Positive Mental Health Week 2015, which ran from 3rd to 10th October, proved to be a great success with each of the events very well attended. Dundalk Positive Mental Health...
View ArticleDundalk athlete James Meenan honoured by president for performance in Special...
Local Special Olympics athlete James Meenan was amongst the guests at a reception hosted by President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday. The president was honouring Team Ireland...
View ArticleSpecial Olympics Ireland Polar Plunge this Saturday
The Special Olympics Ireland Polar Plunge will be taking place at Clogherhead beach this Saturday December 12th at 12 noon. This is one of a series of events nationwide aimed at raising funds and...
View ArticleDundalk Positive Mental Health host successful coffee morning
The Dundalk Positive Mental Health Steering Committee hosted a very successful Christmas Coffee Morning in the Oriel Centre Dundalk Gaol on Tuesday. Senator Mary Moran, Chairperson of the Dundalk...
View ArticleDkIT lecturers inform local politicians on impact of cuts and underfunding
A delegation from the Dundalk Institute of Technology branch of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland visited Dáil Éireann last Wednesday to meet with politicians from the North East region to seek support...
View ArticleDundalk secures €2m funding to upgrade Clanbrassil Street and St Nicholas...
Dundalk has secured a €2 million grant to upgrade Clanbrassil Street and St Nicholas Quarter – an area taking in Church Street, Bridge Street and Linenhall Street. The funding has been made available...
View ArticleSenator Moran launches SNA report
Senator Mary Moran officially launched her report today on ‘The Role of the Special Needs Assistant’. Senator Moran, who is running for the Labour Party in the forthcoming General Election, was...
View ArticleLocal teacher Fiona gets it ‘write’
Minister for Business and Employment Gerald Nash and Professor Joe O’Hara, Head of Education in DCU, last week launched Write Talk, a new book which makes it easy for everyone to improve their grammar,...
View ArticleLabour’s Mary Moran launches General Election campaign
Local Labour Party Senator Mary Moran officially launched her General Election campaign at a ceremony in the Oriel Centre at Dundalk Gaol last night. Amongst those in attendance included Senator...
View ArticleNash given a makeover Moran-style
With voting in the 2016 General Election now just two days away, one thing we won’t necessarily miss after Friday is the sight of posters everywhere. One particular poster on the Ballymakenny Road in...
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