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A chance conversation between Hannah Tormey, one of the founders of North East Sepsis Awareness (NESA) and Daniel McLaughlin, of Rocksalt cafes, has led to a novel campaign to raise awareness of the deadly disease which is one of the world’s biggest killers, one coffee cup at a time.

‘It’s scary and it’s everywhere’ – Louth café chain helping to raise Sepsis awareness one cup at a time ↗

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Almost 3,000 prospective students and their families recently attended Dundalk Institute of Technology's (DkIT) two-day Open Day events, just days after the exciting announcement that the Institute is partnering with Queen’s University Belfast in September 2026 to become a university college. This means that all students enrolling at DkIT will graduate with a Queen’s University Belfast Degree or Postgraduate qualification.

Big turn-out for Dundalk Institute of Technology open days ↗

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It was standing room only in Cooley Hall on Thursday night as hundreds of local residents and farmers gathered to discuss their next move after letters had been sent out earlier in the week to those living along the Emerging Preferred Route Corridor for the proposed Dundalk Bay to Carlingford Greenway.

Packed public meeting hears residents and landowners were left ‘stressed’ and ‘anxious’ over Louth greenway letters ↗

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Louth estate agent Brian Carroll of Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll says there is a lot of interest in the new upmarket Hillcreast development at Rock Road, Blackrock, close to Dundalk which opens for viewing this Saturday November 29.

See inside luxury development in Louth seaside village open for viewing this Saturday ↗

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A motorist who contested a drink driving charge on the grounds that he had been unnecessarily handcuffed at the scene has been convicted of the offence.

Drink driver collided with two parked cars on residential street in Louth ↗

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A coffee shop in the centre of Dundalk suffered considerable damage when a car went off the road and crashed into the front of the premises shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday afternoon.

Dundalk coffee shop owner thankful for public support after car crashes into building ↗

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A woman in her 70s has died following a crash involving a number of vehicles in Ardee, Co Louth, this morning.

Woman (70s) killed in Louth collision hours before funeral of road crash victim Dylan Commins in same town ↗

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A woman in her 70s has died following a crash involving a number of vehicles in Ardee, Co Louth, this morning.

BREAKING | Woman (70s) killed in Louth collision hours before funeral of road crash victim Dylan Commins in same town ↗

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