Fourteen people are due in court as part of an investigation into the sale and supply of heroin, cannabis herb and other controlled drugs in the Drogheda area.

Fourteen people have been arrested as part of an investigation targeting the sale and supply of heroin, cannabis herb and other controlled drugs in the Drogheda area.

Gardai in Co Louth have arrested three people as part of an ongoing operation targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs.

A man is due to appear in court in Co Louth shortly in connection with a shooting incident in Drogheda at the weekend.

A 40-year old-woman has appeared in court charged with murdering Wayne McQuillan at their home in Drogheda yesterday morning.

A man is due to be charged in connection with the tiger kidnapping of a post office worker and his wife and child in Co Louth over two years ago.

A 21-year-old man is due to appear before a sitting of Drogheda District Court this morning charged in connection with the stabbing of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Drogheda on Wednesday afternoon.

Seven men have been charged in connection with a garda operation in which 5,800 cannabis plants were seized.

A COURT has ordered the closure of a Co Meath nursing home.

A man is due in court in Co Louth this afternoon in connection with the murder of Niall Dorr in Dundalk last year.

RESIDENTS of a nursing home in Co Meath were at risk of hypothermia and had to be given blankets and hot drinks by inspectors because the heating was not working properly, a court has heard.

Two brothers have appeared before Limerick District Court charged with possession of a machine gun.

A 30-year-old Pakistani man has been charged with murder at a special sitting of Drogheda District Court this afternoon following a double stabbing in the town.

A Zimbabwean man was remanded in custody today over a multi-million euro fraud.

FORMER Ireland international soccer player Gary Kelly appeared before Drogheda District Court yesterday to face charges of trespass with intent to commit criminal damage.

A HELICOPTER which crashed and exploded into flames in a busy seaside town was too big for the car park the pilot was trying to “squeeze it into,” a district court judge was told yesterday.

Four men are due to appear before a special sitting of Drogheda District Court charged in connection with serious crime in Co Louth.

A 19-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a man in Co Louth.

A 32-year-old man was charged today with the murder of a man in Drogheda, Co Louth, yesterday morning.

A 43-year-old man appeared in court today charged with assault in connection with the death of a 47-year-old woman.

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) said today that Mercury Communications pleaded guilty to three charges that the regulator brought against it under section nine of the 1988 Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act.

Solicitors have walked out of Drogheda District Court in Co Louth in protest at the condition of the building where it is located.

Undercover customs officers have smashed an illegal oil laundry in Co Meath.

A NOTORIOUS criminal from the North-East, who spent most of his adult life in jail, was found hanging from the window of his prison cell at the weekend.

Two Irish men arrested in connection with a €25m drugs seizure in Belgium in August have had their period of detention extended.

A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of German journalist Bettina Poeschel.