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Fri, May 24, 2013
Thursday, 23 May 2013
THE long awaited completion of the newly designed roundabout at the junction of Church Road and New Road has been underw...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
THE use of advanced information technology in education is as important as the invention of the printing press in the 15...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
THE new bridges and ramps at the Grand Canal in Tullamore were designed to be 'iconic' and 'elegant' according to the 20...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
A DELEGATION from the Fiona Pender Bridge Committee met with the Town Council's sub-committee for the naming of public i...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
THE new bridge over the Grand Canal in Tullamore has been called a 'monstrosity' since it was put in place last Friday. ...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
TULLAMORE College will be rebuilt - 14 years after most of it was destroyed by fire. The strongest indication yet ...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
THE campaign to name the new canal footbridge at Convent View in honour of missing local woman, Fiona Pender is to conti...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
A UK-based contractor has begun work on the new distillery for William Grant & Sons in Tullamore. Dunne Building a...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
TULLAMORE Scouts took home the prizes at the Scout county challenge held in Durrow, Co Laois at the weekend. The Houn...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
A LOCAL consortium called 'Midlands Broadcasting Company' has been given the go ahead by The Broadcasting Authority of I...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
THE death of Mrs Eileen Cronin (nee Spearman) in Athboy has caused deep sadness and regret among all those who knew her ...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Plans to construct a cutting-edge radio telescope in Birr may see the town with the richest history in astronomical disc...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Kilcormac will host one of the major events of 2013 in Offaly during the second weekend of May when it hosts the Fleadh ...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
TOWN councillors who declined an invitation to attend a public meeting about the naming of a new footbridge at Convent V...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
AN inquest in Tullamore on Monday heard a taxi driver repeatedly deny driving over a man who died on a rural road near K...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
PROTESTORS voiced their opposition to wind turbines in Offaly when they demonstrated outside an energy conference in Tul...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
A WEEKEND respite place has been offered to a teenager with autism after his mother mounted public protests in the last ...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
A VIDEO featuring a Tullamore student has gone viral on YouTube and created awareness for a worthy charity to boot. Emm...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
A TOTAL ban on smoking anywhere in the grounds of Tullamore Hospital is to be introduced by the Health Service Executive...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
A CHALLENGE to the Town Council's decision not to name public structures in honour of individuals is to be mounted by an...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
THE campaign to name a new footbridge over the Grand Canal in honour of missing local woman Fiona Pender is to continue ...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
THE nephew of Fr Niall Molloy the priest who was murdered in Clara in 1985 has welcomed reports that the Garda Serious C...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
THREE new footbridges will be in place over the Grand Canal by July of this year, the Town Council has revealed. All wor...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
GARDAI in Tullamore are seeking the help of the public in relation to a large number of burglaries which took place in t...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
UP to last Monday afternoon, April 8th over 11,000 people had signed a petition in favour of naming the new footbridge o...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
THE son of popular Offaly novelist Geraldine Brosnahan looks like he is about to follow in his mother's footsteps. Chri...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
RESIDENTS living in Roselawn have lodged strong objections to a proposed bar and night-club planned for Woodchester Hous...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
THE Chairman of Tullamore Town Council, Cllr. Lar Byrne has welcomed the news that Tullamore Town Council has commenced ...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
TULLAMORE actor Sam Keeley has landed a major role in 'Monsters: Dark Continent,' which is the sequel to the Gareth Edwa...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
TWO former employees of Midlands 103 are part of a consortium bidding to win the local radio licence which will allow th...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
THE highest price paid for a house in Offaly so far this year was €450,000, according to the latest figures on the...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
THE Army Bomb Disposal unit was called to deal with a suspect device discovered in a car parked on Clontarf Road on East...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
AN important publication charting the half century history of Killeigh, Cloneygowan, Killurin Group Water Scheme has bee...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
AFTER months of rehearsal there's only two weeks left until the curtain rises on Clara Musical Society's production for ...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
A CAMPAIGN to name the future new footbridge on Convent View after missing Tullamore woman, Fiona Pender is gaining mome...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
A COMPANY planning a major wind farm in Offaly has drawn up a list of landowners in the Annaghmore area between Killough...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
A COLOURFUL and packed parade was the highlight of the Tullamore St Patrick's Weekend Gathering Festival which concluded...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
THE family of a Tullamore woman who was believed to have died during the Second World War in London reunited with their ...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
TURF cutters in Rahan say they are considering seeking legal advice after Bord na Mona moved in on a section of bog at K...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
A NEW Business Incentive Scheme is to be introduced in Tullamore in an effort to reduce the number of vacant units and r...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
THERE appears to be good and bad news for householders in Tullamore who have calculated their property tax on the Revenu...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
THE Tullamore St. Patrick's Weekend Festival , which runs from this Friday, 15th March to Monday, 18th March, has a pack...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
TULLAMORE will sign a Sister Cities declaration with the city of Chandler in Arizona during a week-long visit to the US....
Thursday, 14 March 2013
ELEVEN Offaly farmers received over 100,000 Euros each in Single Farm Payments in 2011, according to figures released th...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
THE new traffic lights at Scally's junction on the Arden Road are causing untold problems for motorists and business the...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
FINAL preparations are being made for the St. Patrick's Weekend Festival which runs from the 15th to the 18th of March. ...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
THE new layout for the roundabout at the junction of the New Road is a disaster according to local councillors who were ...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
SOME landowners on the edge of Clara Bog may decide to resume turf cutting this year, the Tribune has learned. As many ...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
TULLAMORE native, Dermot O' Brien, is to be the Special Guest who will officially cut the tape at this year's St. Patric...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
STRONG support from Offaly helped Kate Feeney sweep to victory in the race to become president of the youth wing of Fian...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
A PLAN to rejuvenate Kilbride Plaza, incorporating the former Texas site, is included on Tullamore Town Council's 'Servi...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
OVER 200,000 Euros has been paid to turf cutters in Offaly who have stopped cutting on protected bogs in the county. As ...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
'A VISION for the community'.The words of Taoiseach Enda Kenny as he officially opened the new state of the art Charlevi...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
CARS at two different locations in the town exploded and burst into flames for no apparent reason in the past number of ...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
COUNCILLOR Brendan Killeavy has been accused of trying to grab newspaper headlines over claims he made that certain area...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
A COMMEMORATIVE monument in the grounds of the Courthouse in Tullamore was the subject of much heated debate at Tullamor...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
A RAHAN couple has called on the HSE to fund life-changing double cochlear ear implants for profoundly deaf children. E...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
LORRIES and trailers abandoned near the Spollenstown industrial estate are an eyesore and a safety hazard, a local counc...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
PLANNING permission has been granted for a new community centre in Mucklagh. The two-storey building behind the church ...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
TULLAMORE designation as a so-called 'Gateway' in a link-up with Athlone and Mullingar has been scrapped. Environment M...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
TULLAMORE Central Library was officially opened last Monday, February 4th, by Minister for the Environment, Community an...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
LOCAL Offaly business people celebrated the generation of 4 million Euro worth of business in just over four years this ...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
THE Government has been accused of delaying a power project in Offaly which would create 500 construction jobs. The ...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
TULLAMORE hospital is reported to have been one of the hospitals favoured by Minister James O'Reilly in the latest round...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
LAST Monday evening in the Community Centre at Puttaghaun, Tullamore Town Engineer Paul Devaney unveiled the drawings of...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
A DUBLIN team of architects has been appointed to design new and secure casing for the shrine of St Manchan which was dr...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
OFFALY should retain all 21 of its county councillors, a submission made by Offaly County Council to a committee conside...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
THE introduction of Saorview Television into Ireland has resulted in an unusual but profitable windfall for Tullamore co...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
SPECIALLY designed postcards are this week being delivered to households throughout Tullamore and surrounding areas. ...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
FINAL preparations are underway for the Colaiste Choilm trip to Mumbai. The group fly out on Thursday 31st January for t...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
AN BORD Pleanala has overturned a decision by Tullamore Town Council not to allow the Tullamore Congregation of Jehovah'...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
OFFALY has benefited to the tune of almost 3 million euro in major water and roads allocations announced by the Governme...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
A TRANSITION Year student at Tullamore College has been chosen to represent the school on an overseas trip to Africa. ...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
A GOVERNMENT cost saving exercise which will result in the closure of the Reserve Defence Force [RDF] unit in Tullamore ...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
MONEYGALL'S most famous residents, publican Ollie Hayes and President Obama's cousin Henry Healy, will attend the US Pre...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
TULLAMORE Town Council has frozen commercial rates for 2013 and despite the current economic climate is to provide extra...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
THE end of an era in the centre of Tullamore took place on Friday last when the historic wooden or green bridge at Conve...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
'WE Will Be Strong', a song for Ireland, is the title of a song composed by local singer songwriter Brendan Keeley.Descr...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
THE number of people registering septic tanks in Offaly has jumped again as the February 1 deadline approaches.According...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
THERE were a number of break-ins around Tullamore recently with people being threatened for money. At 7.20pm on Friday ...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
HUNDREDS of vintage tractor and classic car enthusiasts took place in the 5th annual Tullamore Vintage Tractor Run in ai...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
THE Tullamore Academy Chamber Choir came second out of over 400 choirs in the RTE Lyric FM's Choir for Christmas competi...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
HOUSE prices in Offaly have dropped 53 percent since the property market peak in 2007.And prices have gone down 24 perce...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
AS we say good-bye to 2012 and hello to 2013, personalities from the business, political and voluntary sector in Tullamo...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
A TULLAMORE archaeologist working in Portugal has teamed up with a colleague to present a music show on a Portuguese rad...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
FOR the fifth year now a group of pupils from sixth class in Ballinamere National school have sold reindeer dust to rais...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
THE granting of planning permission for a new Pot and Malt Distillery at Clonminch is expected to give a welcome jobs bo...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
IT HAS been the busiest year yet for the Tullamore branch of the Saint Vincent de Paul and members have seen a huge infl...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
COLAISTE Choilm held the annual Kearney Awards in the school in mid-November. This is always a very happy occasion w...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
2013 WILL mark the end of an era for the Reserve Defence Force (RDF) in Tullamore following over 60 years of service. ...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
TWENTY Tullamore Town Council tenants owe €138,643 in housing rent arrears and the local authority has warned it w...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
But €50,000 Extra Found For DPGsOFFALY County Council this week voted to spend an extra €50,000 on improving...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
SIGNS displaying new parking regulations are being erected in Tullamore. The signs which are situated along the main str...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
THERE is hardly a person in Ireland who hasn't been hit by the severity of this year's Budget. But for some the conseque...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
A NUMBER of drivers prosecuted for speeding escaped the imposition of penalty points after donating €100 to the Di...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
THE sod has been turned on a €140 million Bord na Mona wind farm project at Mountlucas. Up to 150 jobs will be pro...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Acoustic Vibes opened the show with their own unique sound, Nicole, Nathan, Michael and Leon who performed 'Breakfast at...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
FOR the past number of years, the Sacred Heart Secondary School Transition Year programme has been aiming to produce eli...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
A COUNCILLOR this week said that the County Council would have to do much more to stem the tide of economic decline in t...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
ROAD signs pointing the way to Durrow could be erected next year, despite a top council official ruling them out as rece...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
UP TO 50 Gardai across Tullamore, Clara, Daingean, Edenderry and Rhode have all grown mustaches of various density shape...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
THOUSANDS of Offaly householders rushed to register their septic tanks in a bid to avoid a ten-fold hike in the €5...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
SUNDAY, December 2 is a date for all local people to mark in their diaries as that evening sees the official switch-on o...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
RELATIVES of the priest killed in Clara in 1985 have again called for a new inquiry into the case. The calls came af...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
IF IT walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Right? Well maybe, but if it...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
MANY musical societies with vast resources at their disposal would baulk at the thought of staging the Andrew Lloyd Webb...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
THE communities of Roscrea and Birr were shaken by the tragic news of the deaths of two young local pilots following a f...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
WORK is expected to begin on the new Tullamore Arts Centre before the end of 2013 and the project will go to tender in t...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
FORMER Fianna Fail councillor and Dail candidate Ger Killally was behind bars last night as he awaits sentence for theft...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
A MEETING is expected between residents of Kilclonfert and officials of Offaly County Council next Monday as the row ove...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
THIRTY stall-holders have been selected to take part in Tullamore's first ever open-air Christmas market which runs in O...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
A TEENAGER'S remains were discovered in the River Brosna on Monday afternoon last following a car crash in the Ferbane a...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
AN Bord Pleanla has paved the way for the development of a 350,000 Euros Sports Complex on the Arden Road, The proposed ...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
VALUABLE advice on how to set up businesses was given to students from secondary schools all over Offaly at a Comhairle ...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
CLAIRE WALSH from Tullamore Macra na Feirme Club will represent Offaly in the 48th Queen of the Land festival sponsored ...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
THE future of the 24 staff who work with Offaly VEC is still unknown following the announcement that the new headquarter...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
A FAMILY from Texas in the United States enjoyed their holiday in Tullamore so much that they have written to the Tribun...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
IT WAS an event that many thought would never happen, yet through the sheer determination and hard work of a dedicated g...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
House Sold For 3.3M EURO In Boom. On Market For 395,000 EURO! A TULLAMORE auctioneer has rubbished reports that house pr...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
LOCAL authority chiefs this week warned that a €12 million Government grant to Offaly could be reduced this year i...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
TOURISM in the Tullamore area received another major boost this week with the announcement that public access has been s...
