Flag flies at Obelisk
Wednesday March 03 2010
THERE was another blow to the retail and job sector in Drogheda this week with news that clothing stores Vero Moda and Jack and Jones are to close.
The Irish company behind the stores, Bestseller Retail (Ireland), has gone into examinership and has announced it is closing 14 of its fashion stores, including two in Drogheda.
Vero Moda, which opened in the outskirts of the town,' said the imaginative finishing line only for the the response has been that Laurence Town Centre the Labour councillor. utilisation of additional project to be torpedoed by they have enough room on in 2007, and Jack and 'I have been given a lands adjoining the an unholy alliance of Jones, which is located
site for any proposed Nash indicated that club commitment that the hospital for expansion, has senior, well-known politiin Drogheda Town
expansion. representatives are Windmill Road venue will the potential to secure the cians in the region who Centre will both close continuing to work hard be made available to the future of de facto regional could not live with the 'Stakeholders now with the loss of up to 10 on a 'viable site for ajobs.new HSE to provide for the hospital in Drogheda. prospect of Drogheda need to engage positively stadium' for the former expansion of Our Lady of 'We fought extremely housing a brand-new, with the HSE and others However, the chilLeague and Cup champiLourdes Hospital when hard to ensure that state of the art dren's clothing store
on this exciting proposions. the club is in a position to Drogheda was to be the hospital.' Name It, in the
tion and we will be elabo'A considerable body of move on to a new home.' chosen site for the There is no indication Laurence Town Centre,
rating further on the work is going into the Party colleague Cllr proposed new Regional from HSE north east that it which is also owned by development of a new Paul Bell said the availabilHospital to serve the north is interested in purchasing potential of this exciting Bestseller Retail, will home for Drogheda ity of this important site, east,' said Cllr Bell. the land adjacent to the proposal in the coming remain open for United on the immediate coupled with the possibili-'We were close to the hospital, and in the past, weeks,' adds Cllr Nash. business. A FLAGPOLE and tricolour has been placed on the top of the famed Obelisk at Oldbridge, which is currently being restored by the Orange Order.
The flag was spotted last week and had not been removed up to Tuesday morning.
The Orange Order bought the site last year and held a march to the location last May. The Order presently has planning permission in to rebuild the Obelisk.
Built in 1736 by Lionel Sackville to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne, the Obelisk was always a controversial symbol.
The memorial was destroyed in June 1923 by a group of men who bored into the rock foundations of the column and used powerful land mines to blow the stone monument to pieces.
