Check out this wonderful video from Niall Carroll of the crowd in Blackrock today for Garda Tony Golden’s funeral. The footage was recorded at the request of Garda Golden’s wife Nicola so that their three children could look back on it in years to come.
One Garda and two members of the one family are believed to have been shot dead in an incident in Omeath this afternoon.
Members of the Gardai were believed to be responding to a domestic incident at the time of the shootings.
It is now understood a husband and wife were shot in the incident as well as a member of An Garda Siochana.
The two men have since died while the women is in a serious condition.
The Garda was a father of three in his 30s.
The shootings are believed to have occurred around 6pm. More details to follow.
A resident of Carroll Village sent us in this video, captured on Thursday night, of several boy racers leaving the Clanbrassil Centre car park area before breaking the lights at the Green Church.
While this video does not capture them doing anything more than breaking lights, the resident insists Thursday evening gatherings at the car park in Boyd’s are a regular occurrence and are a cause of serious nuisance to both residents and people passing by the area.
A comment on the video asks where the Gardaí are and that seems a valid question as this is not something that is new.
Has Dundalk a boy racer problem and is enough being done about it?
Plans for a new microbrewery in Carlingford have been rejected by Louth County Council
Aidan and Thomas McGrath had applied to the local authority for planning permission to partly demolish an existing shop and residential unit on Newry Street/Old Quay Lane.
In its place they hoped to construct a ground floor retail shop, café and microbrewery with three apartments on the first and second floors.
However, the council refused the application on two counts.
They say that because the proposed development is situated within the designated Carlingford Architectural Conservation Area it would not fit in with the “urban vernacular character of the centre of the historic town.”
They say the alteration of the front wall or façade of the buildings would result in a “loss of character and distinctiveness.”
They also insisted that the development would contravene the Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines for Planning Authorities issued by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in 2011.
Louth County Council will host a number of public consultation meetings next month to discuss coordinating events and commemorations for the centenary of 1916 next year.
They would like to hear your suggestions as to how 1916 can be remembered, reconciled, represented and imagined.
The Dundalk meeting takes place on Tuesday June 9th at 7pm in the Louth County Library at Roden Place.
There will also be a meeting in Drogheda Library in Stockwell Street on Wednesday June 3rd and in the Ardee Library at Market Square on Thursday June 11th. Both of those get underway at 7pm also.
For further details contact Bernadette Fennell on 042 9324239 or email bernadette.fennell@louthcoco.ie
First their clip together went viral at the weekend, now local taxi driver Mark ‘Maxi’ Kavanagh and singer/songwriter David Keenan have appeared together on RTÉ television today.
The pair were interviewed on the Today show with Maura Dirrane and Daithí Ó Sé explaining how the song came about and their delight of the video going viral. Daithi had to jump in at the end to make sure Maxi finished with his signature – C’mon the Town.
Well done lads.
Three videos, posted on YouTube today, show disturbing scenes of a confrontation between Irish Water Workers and a local man from Bay Estate. It’s the latest video from the Dundalk region that has emerged during a stand off with Irish Water. The man is attempting to remove the barriers from his property and close his gate, which have been blocked by the barriers, while the Irish Water staff try to put them back while ignoring his calls to stay off his property.
Some great photographs captured by our readers yesterday following a day of non stop rain. What is your area like? feel free to share your photographs with us on Facebook.
Local graphic design and print studio Graphic Lights have just launched their new online print store at www.graphiclights.ie
The company, founded earlier this year by Colin Toner, recently closed its Park Street store to concentrate on a new online shop.
As the only online print store based in Dundalk, customers can now order a large selection of digital print from the comforts of their own home or office and have it delivered free of charge to anywhere in Ireland.
It places customer care alongside competitive pricing, while its unique selling point is its four-day turnaround of work from time of approval.
Customers can log on and upload their own designs for print or, if needed, for a small fee extra Graphic Lights will design your material.
To celebrate the opening of the new shop Graphic Lights are giving away a 10% discount to all Talk of the Town readers. Just type TOTT10 in the coupon area of the shopping cart at www.graphiclights.ie to avail of this fantastic offer.
Second half strikes from Stephen O’Donnell and Brian Gartland proved decisive as Dundalk seen off Cork City 2-0 at Oriel Park tonight o secure their tenth SSE Airtricity League Premier Division title.
Stephen Kenny’s side came into the game knowing nothing short of victory would suffice to land their first title triumph since 1995.
However, their third victory over John Caulfield’s side this season ensured they pipped the Leesiders to the title by two points in what was a repeat of the 1991 decider.
The key moment came three minutes into the second half when Stephen O’Donnell fired the home side in front with a low strike from 20 yards out.
It was a fairytale return to action for the 28-year-old, who was making his first start since returning from a potentially career threatening injury. The Galway man – who picked up his third league winners’ medal at the end – was told he would never play again after rupturing his anterior knee ligament against Shamrock Rovers on Good Friday.
However, a remarkable return in recent weeks after just six months out was capped off with his second league goal of the season in the 48th minute.
Despite Cork City going close in either half, they lacked the firepower to find the goal they so badly needed with Dundalk all but sealing the title three minutes from time when Gartland scrambled home his ninth league goal of the season to cap a famous victory for the Lilywhites.
Needing the win, it was the home side who did much of the early probing. That said, it was the Leesiders who posed much of the early threat.
Billy Dennehy was unlucky that his first touch was too heavy after being slipped through by Garry Buckley on four minutes while the first real chance of note also fell Cork’s way on 33 minutes.
John O’Flynn found space on the right to cross, with Mark O’Sullivan getting the deftest flick to it only to see his effort creep inches the wrong side of the post.
That let-off sparked Dundalk into life with Darren Meenan breaking clear on the right within seconds at the other end. His near post cross evaded Daryl Horgan only to break to O’Donnell but the Lilywhites captain could only fire over under pressure from Colin Healy.
Horgan then fired over after cutting in off the left before Mark McNulty was forced into the first save of the game on 36 minutes when he got down low to keep out Dane Massey’s effort, which came about after a slip from Cork skipper John Dunleavy.
It was the visitors who went closest to breaking the deadlock in the 39th minute, however, when Billy Dennehy’s free crept under a seven man wall only to strike the butt of the post.
Richie Towell then fired just over with an attempt to chip McNulty a minute before the break as the sides went off at the break with everything still very much in the balance.
Dundalk had to wait less than three minutes after the restart before finding themselves in the driving seat though. Towell held the ball up for O’Donnell to latch onto, with his strike from 20 yards creeping past McNulty at his left hand upright to send Oriel Park into hysterics.
The same player almost added a second in the 54th minute when he got his head on the end of a cross from Patrick Hoban only to see it creep inches the wrong side of the same post he had scored at minutes earlier.
Horgan then got a shot away from 25 yards four minutes later but it was well stopped low to his left by McNulty.
Two substitutes almost combined to bring Cork level in the 80th minute. John Kavanagh broke down the right with his cross being flicked on at the near post by Rob Lehane, whose effort was inches away from finding the far corner of the net.
That miss was to prove all the more costly when Dundalk doubled their advantage two minutes later. Ruaidhrí Higgins’ free wasn’t dealt with by the Cork defence and when it broke to Gartland, he made no mistake by toe poking to the net from eight yards.
The title was Dundalk’s, with the country’s most successful provincial club on top of the pile for the 10th time in their history.
Dundalk: Cherrie; Gannon, Gartland, Boyle, Massey; Meenan (Mountney 77), Shields (Higgins 9), O’Donnell, Horgan; Towell; Hoban (Byrne 90). Subs not used: Griffin, Rossiter, McDermott, Sava.
Cork City: McNulty; Dunleavy, Murray, D Dennehy, McSweeney; O’Flynn (O’Shea 63), Healy, Morrissey (J Kavanagh 62), Buckley (Lehane 73), B Dennehy; O’Sullivan. Subs not used: G Kavanagh, O’Leary, O’Brien, Kearney.
Referee: N Doyle (Dublin).
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