DUNDALK’S FREE NEWSPAPER Luke is top of the class
Awards night in Ardee school
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CBS pupils celebrate big day Pages 12 & 16
Wednesday, 20th May, 2015. Vol. 8, Issue 20 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tel: 042 9320888. Fax: 042 9329676. Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
Christina inspired by mother’s illness By Paul Byrne
Inspired by her mother’s courageous 45-year battle with Cystic Fibrosis a young Dundalk student has decided to pursue a PhD in CF research in Queen’s University Belfast. Christina Kenny from the Racecourse Rd, who is just 21, recently helped her mother, Alison, celebrate her 45th birthday joking that she is an OAP in Cystic Fibrosis terms. Alison was born with Cystic Fibrosis and having spent years on the transplant list was told in 2007 that she would be taken off the list due to her having a rare bacterial function in her lungs. For the past five years Alison has been getting progressively worse
Christina Kenny with her mother, Alison
without any hope of recovery. According to Christina, having to watch her mother
get progressively worse has to help CF research in Irebeen the toughest thing she’s land had to deal with in her young Continued on life and she has urged people Page 14
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Campaigns intensify ahead of referendum As the campaign ahead of Friday’s Marriage Equality referendum enters its final two days, both sides of the debate have been busy putting forward their respective arguments. While both the Yes and No campaigns have intensified, so to have the calls for people to get out and use their vote, no matter what their preference is. Dundalk residents took part in Ireland’s national canvas day for the Marriage Equality Referendum on Saturday as they flocked to the streets and doorsteps to ask their neighbours, friends and community to vote Yes on May 22. The Yes Equality Louth canvas was part of a national canvas day which saw 10,000 people speak to hundreds of thousands of people in every city, town and village of Ireland. Full Story on Page 2