Hospitals have identified alternative chemotherapy supplies to address a medicine shortage that delayed the treatment of a number of cancer patients.

More than 7,700 patients waited on trolleys for admission to hospital last month — the worst figures for the month of May since records began, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a suspicious house fire in Drogheda, Co Louth last year in which an elderly woman was seriously injured and subsequently died.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said “dozens of extra beds” will be opened in the coming weeks to deal with hospital overcrowding.

Gardaí are investigating after a robbery on a cash-in-transit van in Drogheda, Co Louth.

50 new jobs are to be created in Drogheda, Co Louth with the expansion of a nursing home.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 20s after a schoolboy was stabbed on his way home from school in Drogheda, Co Louth.

MORE than €18m will be slashed off the budgets of 17 poor performing hospitals this year.

A woman in her 70s has been killed in a crash in Drogheda, Co Louth.

THE teachers of the future gave Education Minister Ruairi Quinn a clear message that they do not want to pay for the sins of the past as he arrived to address their union.

MORE than 23,500 places in 20 new schools and 32 extensions have been promised as part of the Government’s €579 million school building programme.

NINE counties were represented among 20 qualifiers who lined up for the GVM All Ireland €2,500 commercial championship at last week’s Cappamore Show in Co Limerick.

Four night spots were slammed today when a drinks promotion featuring scantily clad images of women was found to suggest sexual prowess.

A 19-year-old man is due to appear in court this afternoon in connection with the death of a man in Drogheda, Co Louth.

Computer data systems company Pillar Data Systems is to locate its European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Drogheda, Co Louth, creating 200 jobs.

A technical examination is on-going at the scene of a fire in Drogheda, Co Louth.

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Gardaí in Drogheda, Co Louth, are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a man’s body.

One year after the Government’s decentralisation programme was announced, plans for the first batch of relocations were revealed.

Nurses at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, have begun working under protest as part of a dispute over staff levels in the out-patient department.