 Meetings of Louth County Council had previously taken place in Dundalk Courthouse while a home for the county officials was established at County Buildings in Crowe Street.The new building, which formed part of a larger development involving the new County Hall, a leisure and swimming pool complex and some decentralised Government offices, was completed in 2000.Hugh Reece-Edwards

Reece-Edwards represented Natal and made his debut for the province in 1982.