* Karate: The Drogheda School of Karate was founded in February 1969 and has been providing continued services to the town & surrounding areas for over 40 years.

There was a drawbridge that would have stopped the attackers reaching the northern part of the town, but the defenders had no time to pull it up behind them and the killing continued in the northern part of Drogheda.

Operated by Iarnród Éireann, the Dublin Suburban Rail network consists of five railway lines serving the Greater Dublin Area and commuter towns such as Drogheda and Dundalk in County Louth.

* County of the Town of Drogheda ( 1412 )

Under the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1976, part of the urban area of Drogheda, which lay in County Meath, was transferred to County Louth on 1 January 1977.

In addition to Clonmel and Dublin, his family also lived in, among other places, Wicklow Town, Annamoe ( County Wicklow ), Drogheda ( County Louth ), Castlepollard ( County Westmeath ), and Carrickfergus ( County Antrim ).

Drogheda (; ; ) is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin.

As the River Boyne divides the dioceses of Armagh and Meath, Drogheda was founded as two separate towns, Drogheda-in-Meath ( for which a charter was granted in 1194 ) and Drogheda-in-Oriel ( or ' Uriel ') as County Louth was then known.

In 1412 these two towns were united and Drogheda became a ' County Corporate ', styled as ' the County of the Town of Drogheda '.

With the passing of the County of Louth and Borough of Drogheda ( Boundaries ) Provisional Order, 1976, County Louth again grew larger at the expense of County Meath.

The 2007-2013 Meath County Development Plan recognises the Meath environs of Drogheda as a primary growth centre on a par with Navan.

For local elections to Louth County Council, the town forms part of two local electoral areas-Drogheda East ( 6 ) and Drogheda West ( 4 ).

Drogheda Borough Council is an elected local government body which is mandated under the Local Government Act 2001 to provide civic leadership and a forum for the democratic representation of the community.

* Drogheda Borough Council

The party held its seats on Fingal and Cork City Council while gaining a seat on Balbriggan Town Council and Drogheda Borough council respectively.

* Frank Gallagher – Drogheda Borough Council

Clonmel is one of five Borough Councils in Ireland ; the others are Drogheda, Kilkenny, Sligo and Wexford.

In addition, a VEC was formed in those municipal boroughs and urban districts which had a separate Technical Instruction Committee under the 1899 legislation ( namely Bray, Drogheda, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford ) and in the newly-created Borough of Dún Laoghaire.

* St Oliver Plunkett webpage maintained by Drogheda Borough Council & St. Peter's Church

The Irish parliament was created, which often sat at Drogheda, until the Tudors took greater interest in Irish affairs from 1485 and moved it back to Dublin.

Pete Mahon then took over until the end of the season and avoided relegation, winning two must win games on the final two weeks of the season, away to Drogheda United and at home to Dublin rivals Shamrock Rovers.

* Drogheda ( County of the Town ) ( until 1899 )-held jointly with County Louth 1882-1899

He was elected professor of physics at Owens College, Manchester, and retained that chair until his death, which happened near Drogheda, in Ireland, on 19 December 1887.

In 1870, the year in which he was very seriously injured in a railway accident, he was elected professor of physics at Owens College, Manchester, and retained that chair until his death, which happened near Drogheda, in Ireland, on 19 December 1887.

* International Fund Services, a leading provider of fund accounting and administration services to the hedge fund industry globally, is to establish a hedge fund administration operation in Drogheda, Co. Louth, with the creation of up to 235 jobs.

In the 15th century, the local ruler, Bearded Owen O ' Reilly, set up a market which attracted merchants from Dublin and Drogheda.

After some resistance near Newry the Jacobites withdrew to the south bank of the River Boyne, where they took up a defensive position at the village of Oldbridge, near Drogheda.

During the 2007 season Pat's were neck and neck with Drogheda United for the title, but Pat's slipped away and Drogheda United eventually finished up as champions.

The absence would only last one year however, when the decision was made to bring the league's numbers back up to 12, Rovers were re-admitted along with Drogheda.

However, after his first trip into Earth's past involved him directly in the events of the Siege of Drogheda and the Sack of Wexford ( The Settling, 2006 ), the traumatic events he experienced caused him to realise that things do not automatically get better because the Doctor shows up and also placed him in a situation where he had to kill for the first time.

Cromwell arrived at Drogheda on 3 September and his siege guns, brought up by sea, arrived two days later.

With up to 6, 000 Parliamentary troops now inside the town, Drogheda had been taken.

The week after the storming of Drogheda, the Royalist press in England claimed that 2, 000 of the 3, 000 dead were civilians — a theme that was taken up both in English Royalist and in Irish Catholic accounts.

Seen by a crowd of 26, 440, Celtic won this match, which generated nearly £ 1million in receipts-making up the majority of the total £ 1. 5million which was raised open a cancer centre in his native Drogheda.

Navan was a railway crossroads, with the GNR ( I ) line from Drogheda to Oldcastle and the MGWR line from Kingscourt to Clonsilla ( on the Dublin to Sligo line ) passing through the town, connecting at Navan Junction.

A campaign to have the Clonsilla to Navan line reopened, seeks a commuter service to Dublin, initially via the existing Drogheda line, and then directly through reopening the direct line to Dublin via Dunboyne.

Originally the station served only a single mainline to Drogheda, and in 1853 through services to Belfast commenced.

* April 5-Opening of Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda by the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway completes permanent through rail communication between the two principal cities of Ireland.

Under the Local Government Act 2001 section 10 ( 3 ) and schedule 6 part 1 chapter 1, the following continue to be known as Boroughs ( though this is largely a matter of nomenclature ) Clonmel, Drogheda, Kilkenny, Sligo, Wexford.

* Rugby: Local team Boyne RFC was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of Delvin RFC and Drogheda RFC.

As a result large parts of Drogheda have been designated RAPID areas, which means that areas have been identified by the Government as urban areas of concentrated disadvantage.