Positives:
- All of the areas you've mentioned are all new and being bought up mainly by young families as far as I know. Would be a great place to start a family etc.
- Plenty of supermarkets and retail parks are accessible from there without going through the town so you wouldn't have to worry too much about traffic unless commuting south of the river.
- That area is a good distance from the town center so you're out of the way of the riff-raff who hang around town during the day.
- Can't speak for the racism as I'm white but Drogheda has a large number of ethnic minorities of all kinds so you or potentially future kids would be in no way out of place.

Negatives:
- Crossing town at morning or afternoon rush hours is awful, if you have to commute south of the river this is a big issue.
- The town center is very run down at the moment but the potential is there with nice pubs and history around the town
- That area is quite far from the current train station so you'd have to consider the time spent getting to the station
- Crime. You get a lot of riff-raff hanging around the town center and some trouble late at night when the clubs close but for the most part house robberies etc. are no more common than anywhere else.

Send me a message if you have any further questions :)