Dear Reader, The Drogheda Independent is about to change its website, offering you the chance to access enhanced premium content.

Your newspaper has served the local community for over 100 years and we produce a superb package of local news, sports and entertainment content both in print and online.

Since we relaunched our website – www.drogheda-independent.ie – in 2008, it has gone from strength to strength, becoming the place to go for up-to-date information on County Louth and beyond.

We will be introducing changes from March 22 2010 so that wherever you are, you can be guaranteed to keep in touch with Drogheda by purchasing access to our superb premium content.

There will be multiple secure payment methods ranging from a micropayment for single articles to time-based subscriptions that provide access to all Premium content. All payments will be processed by RealEx, an Irish-based secure online payments company.

We will continue to provide abundant local free content and free to access services without charge on our website. These include:

• Searchable local cinema listings and movie reviews
• Searchable local entertainment listings across music, theatre, comedy, dance and leisure
• Local and national weather
• Brand new archive search covering content on The Drogheda Independent back to 2002
• Local jobs listings via our jobsite www.loadzajobs.ie
• Local property listings via our property website www.globrix.ie
• Local car listings via our motors website www.loadzacars.ie
• Searchable business listings on our directory website www.yourlocal.ie
• Photo galleries of key local events
  
• A brand new way to book ads in the Drogheda Independent newspaper using the website – called AdBuilder
• Breaking news throughout the day

The Drogheda Independent will be available on iPhone with the launch of our very own iPhone application. You can access the new mobile service here via Apple’s iTunes Store.

I am also pleased to announce our new print replica digital edition. This is an exact reproduction of the newspaper that you read online.

I thank you for your loyal support in the past and look forward to serving the community for another 100 years in print, online and mobile.

If you want to contact me or my team about any Drogheda Independent service please use this link to email us, call 041 9876800 or drop into our offices at 9 Shop Street, Drogheda.

Yours,

John Mulligan,
Group Editor,
Drogheda Independent

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