Tag: Fianna Fail

Fianna Fáil have selected eight candidates to run for the party in Laois in next year's Local Elections.  Party delegates from around the county gathered...

This interview with Sean Fleming was originally published on LaoisToday in September 2020.  What's talked about at a family kitchen table can have such long-lasting,...

This time next year, we will be in the throes of election fever as the people of Laois will be getting ready to select...

It's a Friday afternoon in Fearagh outside Ballacolla. Liam Hyland opens the door of his home and welcomes us with a handshake as warm...

This piece originally featured on LaoisToday on April 22 2019. The local elections of 1985 in Laois were the most significant and dramatic in more...

Well-known Timahoe man Willie Ramsbottom is to seek the Fianna Fáil nomination to contest the 2024 Local Elections for Laois County Council. Ramsbottom declared his...

A Laois woman has been elected as National Events Director at the Fianna Fáil Women’s Network Conference which was held in Mullingar on Saturday...

Ministers, TDs, senators and councillors were in attended in Moloney's Gaelic Bar in Mountmellick on Friday night last as a new biography of Albert...

Moloney's Gaelic Bar in Mountmellick will be a throw back to pre-pandemic days next Friday night when it hosts the launch of a new...

The death has occurred of former Laois County Council and Midland Health Board chairman Marty Rohan from Ballinakill. He was aged 88. Mr Rohan was...

The Ógra units of Fianna Fáil in Laois and Offaly are holding a special online event to mark the 95th anniversary of the party's...

Barry Cowen has "hallmark of a leader" according to John Moloney, former Fianna Fáil Laois-Offaly TD and veteran of the party. Speaking on the LaoisToday...

Former Laois-Offaly TD John Moloney says that the "clock is ticking" on Fianna Fáil to prove that they can be "a party for the...

On this week’s LaoisToday Podcast, we're delighted to be joined by former Fianna Fáil TD and Junior Minister John Moloney. It’s 10 years this week...

The euphoria of being successful in an election provides the triumphant snapshots - but for losing candidates, it's harder to think of a tougher...

What's talked about at a family kitchen table can have such long-lasting, lifetime influences. In the Fleming's home place in The Swan, political talk was...

Getting people back to work "is ten times more important" than worrying how the country repays the debt brought on to fund the extensive...

On the latest episode of the LaoisToday Talking Politics Podcast, we're joined by Laois Fianna Fáil TD Seán Fleming who was recently appointed as...

Long-serving Laois Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming has been appointed a Minister for State at the Department of Finance. Deputy Fleming’s elevation to the Junior...

Newly elected Fianna Fail Senator Fiona O'Loughlin says that seeing Colaiste Iosagain in Portarlington achieve its new school building is her top priority. The former...

Laois Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming hasn't been included among the party's Junior Ministers following the announcement of those roles today. A TD since 1997...

Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley says “the new Government led by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil does not represent the change that people...

Catherine Fitzgerald has been elected as the new Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council. The Fianna Fáil councillor was elected at today’s monthly meeting of the...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has unveiled his new Government cabinet, an historical appointment that sees six ministerial positions for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and...

After almost five months since the country voted in the General Election, we now have a new Government and new Taoiseach. Yesterday, members of Fine...

139 days after the country went to the polls to vote in the General Election - it finally looks like we will have a...

By the end of the week, we should know whether or not we will have a new government in place. Members of Fianna Fail, Fine...

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin is set to become the next Taoiseach as a coalition government between his party, Fine Gael and the Greens...

Seamus McDonald is Fianna Fáil’s longest-serving county councillor in Laois, the Rosenallis man first having been elected in 1985. Indeed only current Cathaoirleach Willie Aird of Fine...

Laois TD and Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has welcomed the coming together of his own party, Fine Gael, and Fianna Fail in a...