An Offaly Applegreen station will be asking its customers to take a walk this week
The fuel retailer is taking part in a first nationwide Suicide Awareness Week from June 17-23 on behalf of national suicide prevention and bereavement charity Console. Customers of Tullamore Applegreen at Water Lane will be invited by manager Carol Cuddy and staff to join them for a fun 5km Console Walk and Talk, details of when and [...]
An opportunity to play Ireland’s iconic instrument – the Uilleann Pipes
Na Píobairí Uilleann presents“Try the Pipes” An opportunity to play Ireland’s iconic instrument – the Uilleann Pipes Friday 21st June 2013 Dublin – Seamus Ennis Centre, Naul , Co. Dublin 4pm -6pm with Bill Haneman & Conor Roche-Lancaster Galway - Eyre Sq. Shopping Centre 5pm – 7pm with Pádraic Keane & Marion McCarthy Laois – Laois Shopping Centre, Portlaoise 3.30pm – 5.30pm with Joe Walsh [...]
Cyclists coming together to raise funds for job creation
Final preparations are underway in Co. Tipperary as cyclists from around the country get ready to take part in a fundraising cycle to help create new jobs in local food initiatives. On June 15th over 100 cyclists will take part in the 100k cycle which travels through North Tipperary and parts of Offaly. The cyclists [...]
IFA Warns that Damage to the Irish Drinks Industry Will Have Negative Impact on Wider Agri-Food Sector
IFA President John Bryan has warned against damaging the Irish drinks industry, and its ability to increase exports and economic activity. He said, “Premium brands such as Guinness, Baileys and Jameson – all of which have built a global reputation based on sourcing quality raw material from Irish farming and the use of sponsorship and [...]
Special One- A song to Celebrate the return of Jose Mourhino
Corrigan Brothers – the Irish Band whose multi million international hit “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama” has reached 10 million you tube hits and charted all over the world celebrate the Special One’s return to Chelsea. Using Shania Twain’s song “Still the One” the brothers thought Jose’s return deserved a song. Lead [...]
Cloughjordan School Celebrates it’s fourth green flag
Cloughjordan Church of Ireland National School will raise its fourth green/environmental flag on June 14th at 11 am. To celebrate the occasion all 93 pupils will perform a special song that they have written, with the help of their teachers Yvonne Ryan and Jean Ryan accompanied by The Corrigan Brothers and Aaron Neill. The Song which [...]
Offaly has the joint sharpest fall in planning applications according to National Housing Construction Index
The latest edition of the National Housing Construction Index compiled and issued by Link2Plans (www.link2plans.com) illustrates that Offaly has the sharpest decrease of planning applications in the country. The team of researchers at www.link2plans.com have examined every housing construction planning application and planning commencement from January to April 2013, in the production of the National Housing [...]
Minister Hogan Establishes Referendum Commission on the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013
Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, announced today (7th June 2013) that he has made an order under the Referendum Act 1998 establishing an independent statutory Referendum Commission for the purposes of the forthcoming referendum on the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013. In accordance [...]
Cloughjordan Ecolearn Experience Day: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Society: Issues and Options
A one day seminar led by Professor Peadar Kirby and Bruce Darrell places the everyday issues of sustainability and resilience that the Cloughjordan ecovillage seeks to model into a wider global context. This seminar will examine how we might address the need to transition towards a low-carbon society by around 2050 to avoid what scientists [...]
Normal levels of construction needed for economic development and recovery – Hogan addresses construction forum
As part of the Governments’ Action Plan For Jobs, a Stakeholder Workshop was held in Government Buildings this morning (7th June 2013) to focus on the key areas of infrastructure investment; commercial and residential property; and the Construction Sector’s role in supporting the domestic economy and jobs. The Workshop was moderated by Frances Ruane of [...]
