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6 unusual facts about Drogheda


Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunketts head from St. Peter's Church where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.

Bus Éireann

Additional services within Ireland include city services in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford and town services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Drogheda, Dundalk, Navan and Sligo.

The National Development Plan included a large expansion in commuter services, especially in the greater Dublin area, and so the company greatly increased services on routes such as Dublin/Drogheda/Dundalk, Dublin/Ashbourne, Dublin/Ratoath, Dublin/Dunshaughlin/Navan/Kells/Cavan.

Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot

Wilmot married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury and widow of Gerard Moore, 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda, who died in 1627; she survived till 3 June 1654, being buried on 3 July with her first husband in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda; her correspondence with the parliamentarians during the Irish wars gave James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde some trouble.

Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.

Glanbia

Within the consumer food business, liquid milk operations were to be located at Ballytore, Waterford and Drogheda.


1592 in Ireland

December - Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh arrives at Drogheda from Bilbao (having escaped attack by pirates) with a promise from King Philip II of Spain to send troops to support a rebellion in Ireland next summer.

Baltray

Bus Éireann route 189 serves Baltray several times a day (but not Sundays) linking it to Drogheda, Duleek, Ashbourne, Termonfeckin and Clogherhead.

Bettystown

Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services between Laytown and Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.

Brendan Kennelly

No stranger to literary contention, his detractors have seized in particular on works such as “Cromwell”, about the English Roundhead and Puritan whose army sacked the town of Drogheda and slaughtered its Royalist garrison and townspeople in 1649.

Caer Ibormeith

She eventually married Aengus of the Tuatha de Dannan, but first he had to pick her out, in swan form, from a group of one hundred and fifty other swans at Loch Bel Dragon (Now Lough Muskry in the Galtees.) Having chosen correctly, he turned into a swan himself and they flew away, to the fortress of the River Boyne at Drogheda, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights.

Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath

After the New Model Army under Cromwell captured Drogheda, a force of several thousand Parliamentarians under Robert Venables headed north into Ulster, where Coote joined Venables to destroy the Scottish Ulster Royalists at the Battle of Lisnagarvey.

CIE 141 Class

Following crew training trials between Inchicore and Monasterevin (passenger trains), Kildare (goods trains), and Hazelhatch (light engines), the class appeared on main line trials from Amiens Street (Connolly) to Drogheda, and Westland Row (Pearse) to Arklow on 4 December 1962, entering traffic on the Dublin to Cork main line four days later.

Daniel Axtell

It is possible that Axtell was a scapegoat; Cromwell had committed similar atrocities a year earlier at Drogheda and at Wexford, in the sense that no quarter had been offered.

Death of Adrian Donohoe

The post-mortem on the body of Donohoe took place at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda by the State Pathologist, Professor Marie Cassidy, of the State Pathologist's Office, who also visited the scene.

Drogheda Steam Packet Company

It provided shipping services between Drogheda and Liverpool from 1825 to 1902, in which year it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

DUFC

Drogheda United F.C., an association football club in Drogheda, Ireland

Duleek

Route 189 and 189A provide several daily journeys to/from Drogheda and Ashbourne with route 189 journeys continuing to Clogherhead.

Duleek railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Drogheda-Duleek-Slane-Navan with a latter extension to Trim).

Dunboyne

The Division consisted nine brigades: 1st Brigade (south Meath & north Kildare); 2nd (Navan & Trim); 3rd (Kells, Virginia & Mullagh); 4th, Delvin; 5th (Mullingar & north Westmeath); 6th, Edenderry; 7th (Naas & south Kildare); 8th Fingal; and 9th (Drogheda & south Louth).

Gavin Whelan

Gavin developed at Home Farm before playing for UCD and was signed by Drogheda United in 2004.

Kathy Rose O'Brien

In 2008, O'Brien played Marie, a nurse, in the award-winning television drama, Whistleblower, based on actual events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth in the 1990s, where Michael Neary, an Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist, was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners for professional misconduct relating to the performance of caesarian hysterectomies.

Laytown

Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services to/from Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.

Mark Rooney

Despite a difficult season for him personally, Mark was part of the Drogheda United squad that won the 2005 FAI Cup after beating Cork City in the final on 4 December 2005 at Lansdowne Road.

Navan railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Navan-Slane-Duleek-Drogheda with a latter extension to Trim).

PowerCity

Power City is an Irish electrical retailer of consumer and electronic goods with branches in Blanchardstown, Coolock, Tallaght, Finglas, Fonthill, Sallynoggin, Drogheda, Bray and Naas.

Proinsias Ó Doibhlin

By 1714 he had returned to Ireland where he had become the Guardian of the Dungannon/Donaghmore Franciscan house; in 1717 he was transferred to Drogheda but was back as Guardian at Dungannon in 1720.

Rail Users Ireland

The tunnel as proposed by Iarnród Éireann would provide stations at Heuston (linking with the Kildare Line), High Street, St Stephens Green (linking with the Green Luas line and the Airport Metro), Pearse (linking with a DART service from Greystones to Maynooth) and Spencer Dock (continuing on to Drogheda and linking with the Red line Luas).

Ronnie Whelan, Sr.

It would be a further thirty-four years before Drogheda captured the blue riband event of Irish football, but Gavin Whelan's opening goal against Cork City in the 2005 decider brought his family's footballing narrative full-circle; the midfielder is Ronnie Snr.'s grandson.

Setanta Sports Cup

Drogheda claimed the trophy for a second consecutive year thanks to two penalty saves from Mikko Vilmunen.

Swords, Dublin

Other buses serving Swords include Dublin Bus route 102 to Malahide, Portmarnock and Sutton, route 33b to Donabate and Portrane, routes 33 and 33a to Lusk, Rush, Skerries, and Balbriggan and Bus Eireann route 101 to Balbriggan, Julianstown and Drogheda.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.

William Wycherley

While talking to a friend in a bookseller's shop at Tunbridge, Wycherley heard The Plain Dealer asked for by a lady who, in the person of the countess of Drogheda (Letitia Isabella Robartes, eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Radnor and widow of the 2nd Earl of Drogheda), answered all the requirements.

Yemi Adenuga

Yemi's work with AWDI supports Women refuges in Ireland including Drogheda Women Refuge and Meath Women's refuge through fundraising programmes to help female victims of domestic violence and their children, and building on its current leadership project, to educate, give Moral support to, and develop women for leadership positions.


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