The Agenda

Garda Catherine Patterson from Dundalk Garda Station's Community Policing Unit spoke to LMFM's Adrian Kennedy on The Agenda this morning regarding:An arson attack in Dundalk last Wednesday morning. A road traffic collision in Drogheda on New Years' Eve.'Dangerous' Driving in Dundalk on New Years' Eve.

A Meath councillor has said residents are being “left in the dark” about major housingprojects, claiming that the current planning system for Large-scale ResidentialDevelopments (LRDs) allows developers to proceed without providing a “presentation”to councillors or the public.

Labour is calling for the introduction of a targeted wealth tax to support poverty reduction.

Growing unease among clubs and counties at Allianz' continued sponsorship of the NationalLeagues, manifested itself at Monday night's January meeting of the Louth County Board afterthe matter was raised by the St Fechins club.

The family of a man who died in a one punch attack have launched a petition to demand that thestate tries to have his killer’s sentence increased.

East Meath Fianna Fáil Councillor, Stephen McKee, is demanding that Irish Water take immediateaction to deal with the worrying increase in water outages affecting East Meath, in particular theBeamore Road area of South Drogheda.

Sinn Féin Councillor Antóin Watters has welcomed the decision by the British Labour Government toscrap the so called ‘Brit Cards’, a digital identity scheme that would have had widespread problemsfor Irish citizens living and working in the North of Ireland.

THE grieving mother of Keane Mulready-Woods has told how the “cruelty and inhumanity” of cuttingup and disposing of her child’s body is a “constant and unbearable torment.”Elizabeth Mulready said that it “prolonged our suffering” after her son’s remains She added: “Insteadof being allowed dignity in death, his body was cut up, scattered and treated as if he was nothing, asif he was not someone’s son, as if he didn’t matter.”