Tag: Long Read

It was a rainy night in Dublin. We spilled out onto Dame Street.  Oblivious of the spills of rain and spray from the passing...

This evening in Galway, Connacht will play Munster in the Pro12 a week on from their first win over Leinster in 19 years. Connacht sit...

Kieran Cotter's rise in the horse racing game in the last 18 months has been nothing short of meteoric. The flat racing trainer - who...

There's not too many Laois footballers with as many hard-luck stories as Chris Conway. The Arles-Kilcruise man made a huge contribution to the Laois jersey...

There has been so much election coverage over the last couple of weeks that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by it all. Here we attempt...

Any future development, housing or investment in a popular Laois village is at a standstill due to a bizarre problem over the status of...

In this age of social media - and the constant negativity that goes with it - it would be easy to think that the...

In an age of political flux, 2020 as it approaches, is highly unusual with the degree of certainty it already offers. The political demon that...

Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Add in to that mix Verona Murphy, Eoghan Murphy and Dara Murphy and...

At the time Meath were the bluebloods of Gaelic football; they were revered, feared and respected and had not only scaled the peak once...

Brought to you in association with People First Union At 10.30pm on Monday evening last in a warehouse in Kea Lew Business Park in Portlaoise...

Brought to you in association with People First Credit Union On close examination of the tallies for the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District, there's one set of...

Brought to you in association with People First Credit Union ‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’, the more it changes, the more they...

It’s a Friday evening in Glebe House, the Phelan family home at Donaghmore just outside Rathdowney and a number of members of the extended...

Brought to you in association with People First Credit Union In the biggest blow to local government in forty years and the greatest damage inflicted...

Easter traditionally marks the start of the new camping season. The evenings are longer, the weather is improving and the campsites which had been in...

Brought to you in association with Cllr Brendan Phelan Laois and Westmeath have played out many big battles over the years but the one that...

Brought to you in association with The Brewery, Rathdowney Tonight All Ireland hurling champions Limerick roll into town. While the Laois and Limerick hurlers have...

The members of the Fire Brigade are unsung heroes of our community. Dad and Uncle Jack, the Barbender, were in Portlaoise Fire Brigade back in...

Charlie Flanagan says it is "cackhanded", "inexplicable" and "wholly unsatisfactory". Sean Fleming says it is "most unfair" and "unjustified". Brian Stanley says they've "made...

The government minister with responsibility for Eirgrid and ESB Networks has said in the Dail that he will visit Coolnabacca, the site of the...

It will never be forgotten. No matter what happens on Saturday evening, no matter what way this year plays out for Laois or what...

When Paddy O’Connell was a student in Dublin, studying auctioneering in DIT, he went on a J1 summer of a lifetime to Hawaii. Always one...

At just 30 years of age, Portlaoise man David Finn is a serial entrepreneur who has built up a string of local businesses without...

Last Thursday night I attended an information meeting in Portlaoise where the vision for the town’s new secondary school was laid bare to a...

Having established what has been dubbed ‘the world’s best hotel’ at Ballyfin Demesne, Aileesh Carew has moved on to become sales and marketing director...

When Gary Cobbe set up his own plastics recycling business - Irish Polymer Extrusions (IPE) - in 2013 the workload was heavy and the...