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Thursday, 29 July 2010
At the launch of the forthcoming LARCC evening at Kilbeggan Races on Saturday 7th August is pictured, left to right, Pad...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
HUNDREDS of excited Jedward fans turned up at the Bridge Centre last Wednesday morning to see their idols who were promo...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
OFFALY St is being targeted by stingy householders who refuse to pay bin charges. Carriers bags of rubbish are being dum...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
A FUEL supplier took a bus because the coach company's owner owed 98,000 Euros, Tullamore District Court heard. John McG...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
TWO of Walt Disney's best loved characters are pulling out all the stops to help raise funds for Tullamore's Tanyard Res...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
THE Leinster Fleadh, held in Dunleer, Co. Louth on Sat/ Sun the 10th/11th July brought back many success to County Offal...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
IT is barely off the printing presses but already a new brochure designed to promote tourism in Offaly is the subject of...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
IN a move which aims to create jobs and stimulate business, Offaly County Council this week decided to slash development...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
DINNY SCULLY of Ballycumber won 22,000 Euros in last Saturday's National Lottery's Big Money Game Show on RTE. The five ...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
A MARBLE sculpture from Annaghmore House outside of Tullamore has fetched £241,250 at auction in Sotheby's of London.Die...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
IT WAS the night of July 6,1985 when the death of Fr Niall Molloy at the Flynn residents in Clara occurred, in what were...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
A TULLAMORE heroin addict who was at the centre of a dramatic incident in the local courthouse in May was sentenced to s...
Thursday, 8 July 2010
LAST Saturday was a red letter day in the history of Bracklin as a Community Alert Scheme was launched and the Bracklin ...
Thursday, 8 July 2010
ONE of Killeigh's most famous sons is to be commemorated in a bronze sculpture which will be erected on the village gree...
Thursday, 8 July 2010
TWO property owners on Main Street in Tullamore are refusing to pay service charges in protest at the state of the stree...
Thursday, 8 July 2010
OFFALY County Council has apologised after releasing the email addresses of hundreds of people who own second houses and...
Thursday, 1 July 2010
GARDAI say they have had a number of phonecalls from people with information in relation to Joe Heffernan, the Tullamore...
Thursday, 1 July 2010
IT'S always worth checking out what others have to say about our town and the attractions it holds. Most are positive ab...
Thursday, 1 July 2010
THE long saga of a new school for Tullamore College continued this week when it emerged that it will be another three an...
Thursday, 1 July 2010
THE appointment of Supt John Moloney as the garda in charge of the Tullamore District has been confirmed this week.Supt ...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
THERE were major celebrations at Scoil Eoin Phoil II last Monday for the hoisting of the school's second Green Flag. Spe...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
JORDAN Daly was the winner of a special art competition in which children from St Columba's Place designed a logo for th...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
MORE than 1,200 people are on a waiting list for orthopaedic appointments at Tullamore Hospital according to the Health ...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
THE Health Service Executive has been urged not to move 'families in trouble' in the 'dark of night' and 'shift trouble ...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
LOSE weight the correct way with System 10 weight loss, a scientific based weight loss programme focused on correcting y...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
ÓG Ireland was launched at the Lancaster Hotel in London on Thursday June 3rd last. This is Ireland's first and only Pea...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
THE second of the summer concerts which are being hosted monthly in the Church of the Assumption, Tullamore takes place ...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
VANDALS caused over €20,000 worth of damage to cars and flower containers in Hophill Grove in the early hours of M...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
MOBILISING the voices of the 410,00 people in this country with a disability will be the key aim of the new national cha...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
THE Special Olympics Ireland Summer Games - an event which takes place every four years - will be held in Limerick from ...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
THE green light for a new school for Colaiste Choilm in Tullamore is expected in the next couple of weeks. A tender rep...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
THE bid to have Clara Bog designated a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural organisation) World Heri...
Thursday, 3 June 2010
THIS year the feast of Corpus Christi will be celebrated on 6th June. Please note that the procession in Tullamore will ...
Thursday, 3 June 2010
THE annual Bog Bash Festival in Mountbolus is here again. On the bank holiday weekend of the 4th, 5th and 6th June the t...
Thursday, 3 June 2010
PACKING up the bags, clearing the shelves and ready to go, Sacred Heart School Transition Year mini company Kadoodle Ltd...
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Junior Midland's got Talent reached its climax last Friday night with Elaina Strolla of Scoil Bhride Clara emerging as t...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
A FAMILY whose home was the target of a drive-by shooting in Hophill are to leave the estate after receiving an eviction...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
HEROIN 'creeped' into Tullamore over the past two years through the activity of just one drug dealer, it has been claime...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
A TOTAL of 32 beds and one operating theatre remain closed at the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore, the Health Ser...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
TWO men were still being detained by Tullamore gardai yesterday evening (Tuesday, May 25) in relation to a burglary at t...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
TULLAMORE'S only full-time martial arts school took another significant step forward recently. The Tullamore American K...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
LAST week the Dream Maker segment of the Winning Streak programme was broadcast from the Darmagh Community Centre, Tulla...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
RESIDENTS of Hophill are 'living in fear' following another shooting in their area in the early hours of Monday morning ...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
JUST days before businesses meet in Tullamore to discuss water bills which run into tens of thousands of euros in some c...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
LAST March, three anglers from Tullamore and three from Mullingar headed to Arctic Norway to fish for Spring cod known a...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
TRAVELLERS from Tullamore and the local Travellers Movement community development officer teamed up for a major aid proj...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
THE Phoenix Arts Festival 2010 celebrated the 225th anniversary of the Great Balloon Fire with an action packed festival...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
A MEETING which could determine the future of Offaly's smaller fire stations is scheduled to take place today (Wednesday...
Thursday, 6 May 2010
THE 10th Phoenix Arts Festival celebrating the 225th Anniversary of the Great Hot Air Balloon Fire of 1785 takes place t...
Thursday, 6 May 2010
CHARLEVILLE Estate will be a hive of activity on Sunday last as ploughing enthusiasts from all over Offaly gathered to m...
Thursday, 6 May 2010
THREE people arrested last Thursday morning in connection with a shooting incident on the Kilbrook estate in Tullamore w...
Thursday, 6 May 2010
A BOOK containing an extensive list of names and telephone numbers was found following the closure of two fully equipped...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
SEVERAL thousand euro worth of damage was caused to an ESB pylon in Clara last weekend, when a stolen digger was apparen...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
THE launch of the upcoming Midsummer's BBQ Supporting Brainwave took place on Thursday last in Maunsell's Tullamore and ...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
GARDAI are investigating two incidents in the last two weeks in which gunshots were fired in separate Tullamore housing ...
Thursday, 29 April 2010
DEATHS from heroin use are on the increase in Offaly and two victims of the drug were the subject of inquests in Tullamo...
Thursday, 22 April 2010
A WORKSHOP was held last week where over 100 business leaders from the Midlands attempted to map out the best route forw...
Thursday, 22 April 2010
A VERY confident Tara McEvoy took to the stage and set round two, heat two of Midlands Got Talent in motion last week. T...
Thursday, 22 April 2010
PROSECUTORS last week challenged the legal aid claim of a man accused of drug trafficking. Michael Collins (26), 27 Mari...
Thursday, 22 April 2010
ON Sunday evening next, Birr Stage Guild host their annual Opera Gala featuring a host of Ireland's finest operatic perf...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
'I NEVER imagined that one day I would be practicing dentistry in Ireland,' said Marcela Torres Leavy, when asked about ...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
That was the reaction of Offaly SPCA members at their AGM in Hugh Lynch's Function Room, Tullamore when they were introd...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
FINANCIAL whizz kids in Tullamore Town Council have bucked the economic downturn and recorded a gross surplus of over &#...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
THE Government has been accused of adopting so called 'British divide and conquer' tactics in pitting public and private...
Thursday, 8 April 2010
TULLAMORE has yet another 'gem' to be proud of when it was recently announced that prominent jeweller, Tony Cahill was e...
Thursday, 8 April 2010
THOUSANDS of children and their parents and family members attended the first ever Family Fun Day organised in Tullamore...
Thursday, 8 April 2010
TULLAMORE Town Council has a long-term aim of building a third footbridge over the Grand Canal at Bury Bridge, known loc...
Thursday, 8 April 2010
THERE were 30 Garda checkpoints in operation over the Easter bank holiday weekend in and around Tullamore. The checkpoin...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
TERESA Bermingham had plenty of cause for celebration this week when she was chosen as Aura Tullamore's number one Mum i...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
IT was a great day, the Feast of St Patrick, 2010, as communities all over Ireland came together to organise and support...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
THE Sacred Heart Secondary School (SHS), in Tullamore has received a Government allocation of €360,000 for two new...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
By Camilla McLoughlinSPARKS flew and tempers flared at last Monday's meeting of Offaly VEC between the Chairman Eamon Do...