Tag: LoveLaois Podcast

The hugely talented John Whelan joins us on the latest version of the LoveLaois Podcast where he tells us of his journey into writing...

The LaoisToday team of Paul Dargan and Steven Miller travelled to Dublin on Wednesday for the first day of the 34th Dáil. We caught up...

The fourth episode in our Transition Year series is where we hear from Portlaoise CBS student Joe Larkin. From Stradbally, Joe is spending the second...

The LaoisToday Friday Panel proved somewhat of a hit in the run-up to the General Election and it returns today for the postmortem. Previous guests...

The General Election has come and gone with all seats now filled both in Laois and nationally. Willie Aird (Fine Gael), Sean Fleming (Fianna Fail)...

The story of Day 1 at the Laois General Election count centre was the stunning success of first time Fine Gael candidate Willie Aird,...

The third episode in our Transition Year series where we hear from Knockbeg College student Cathal Carroll. From Stradbally, Cathal spent the first half of...

The finishing line is in sight. After months of speculation and weeks of canvassing, the country will go to the polls on Friday. And so,...

General Election campaigns by their nature are always about the candidates. On this occasion in Laois, it is also somewhat significant for who isn't running. Charlie...

General Elections are marathons not sprints - but we are in the sprinting phase of things now. Four days away from polling, Alan Hartnett and...

After a successful first outing, our Friday panel for our LoveLaois podcast for the General Election is back for another episode. This is once again...

Ballyfin woman Claire Scott has a bird's eye view of General Election 2024 on a national level. We chatted to her on Tuesday afternoon from...

The latest guest on our LoveLaois General Election Podcast is Gary Murphy, the Professor of Politics in DCU who is a regular contributor on...

First of all, an apology. We interviewed Ivan Yates last week as part of our General Election coverage only for us to fall victim to...

The General Election is in full swing now as we are now 11 days from polling day. Steven Miller is joined by Alan Hartnett to...

Our Transition Year Podcast series continues and up next is Andrew Whelan of Portlaoise CBS. From The Heath, Andrew spent the first half of the...

We had a bit of a mishap recording this week. On Monday afternoon we chatted with broadcaster Ivan Yates, the former Fine Gael Government minister...

The date has been confirmed and the countdown to General Election 2024 is well an truly underway. Here at LaoisToday, we plan to produce three...

Moving school at any age can never be easy but it's something that Megan Kavanagh did when she and her family moved to Ireland,...

The clue is in the name: People First Credit Union. "We are very heavily involved in the community," says Carol Murphy, their Marketing Manager, speaking...

Since LaoisToday's inception in February 2017, we have been inundated with requests from second level students around the county to spend some of their...

The Laois County Council monthly meeting returned this week and with it came another episode of screaming, shouting, finger-pointing and name-calling. A lot of it...

We missed a week of the Love Laois Podcast last week because of the Ploughing - and that's where we start, chatting about last...

The incredible drama at last week's Fine Gael General Election selection convention gets priority treatment on this week's LoveLaois Podcast. The long-serving Portlaoise-based councillor Willie...

Our latest LoveLaois Podcast is a real mixed bag of topics - with everything from politics to school to agriculture and a potted history...

A Portarlington business-owner will run as an Independent candidate in the upcoming General Election. Elaine Mullally, who owns Clown Around play centre in Portarlington, officially...

One of the big local stories of Electric Picnic was the standout success of the Timahoe Male Choir, who performed to two bumper crowds...

Our latest LoveLaois Podcast is here and this one is all about the 2024 Electric Picnic Arts and Music Festival. Steven Miller is joined by...

In the latest episode of the LaoisToday LoveLaois Podcast, we hear from Stephen Dowling, owner of Dunmasc Genetics. Stephen will be representing Laois at the...

What happens when those in positions of power and influence tell large groups of people that something they enjoy doing is 'wrong'? That was the...