Midlands News Archive

Midlands Authors To Attend Events In Local Libraries Tomorrow

Friday, 21 February 2025 16:44

Mullingar Chamber Of Commerce Encourages Businesses Start - Ups

Friday, 21 February 2025 16:38

Residential Care Home Given Green Light In Laois

Friday, 21 February 2025 15:41

Calling All Farmers: DCU Asking Farming Families To Take Health And Welfare Survey

Friday, 21 February 2025 15:18

Offaly Woman Raises Almost €8k For Sightsavers Ireland

Friday, 21 February 2025 13:29

Court Gives AG Go Ahead To Pursue Enoch Burke Finds

Friday, 21 February 2025 12:58

Sugar Beet Sector Has More To Offer According To Laois TD

Friday, 21 February 2025 12:55

'Children With Additional Needs Are Being Failed' - Laois TD

Friday, 21 February 2025 12:18

'Children Are Entitled To Be Heard' - Westmeath Psychotherapist

Friday, 21 February 2025 11:53

Valerie Duffy Selected For Roscommon County Council

Friday, 21 February 2025 11:40

Midlands MEP Critical Of Gender Inequality In Just Transition

Friday, 21 February 2025 11:22

Longford-Westmeath Sinn Fein TD Appointed As Party's Mental Health Spokesperson

Friday, 21 February 2025 08:54

New Bus Service Launches For Laois Commuters

Friday, 21 February 2025 08:37

Power Outage Hits Laois

Friday, 21 February 2025 07:32

Laois School Of 32 Head To All Ireland Robotics Final With World Champs On The Horizon

Friday, 21 February 2025 07:28

Offaly TD Pushes For Enhanced FDI Supports

Friday, 21 February 2025 06:50

Tributes Paid To Bishop Willie Walsh

Thursday, 20 February 2025 17:22

Salary Surveys Set Unrealistic Expectations - CEO FRS Network Group

Thursday, 20 February 2025 17:18

Garda Fitness Test Eased To Attract Recruits

Thursday, 20 February 2025 17:14

Lighting Contractor For Offaly County Council Questioned

Thursday, 20 February 2025 15:43

Hundreds Of Job Losses As New Look Announces Impending Liquidation

Thursday, 20 February 2025 15:00

Housing Campaign Group Want Beefed Up Vacant Homes Grant

Thursday, 20 February 2025 14:12

SIPTU To Ballot Members At Bord Na Mona Recycling Over Strike Action

Thursday, 20 February 2025 12:36

Motorists Should Use Common Sense Instead Of Reduced Speed Limits - Fergus McDonnell

Thursday, 20 February 2025 12:19

Laois Residents In Narrow Escape From Serious Blaze

Thursday, 20 February 2025 11:54

Emergency Services Attend Laois Fire

Thursday, 20 February 2025 08:31

Irish Rail Advise Passengers In Midlands Of 'Significant Disruption" To Services

Thursday, 20 February 2025 07:42

Midlands Prisons Well Over Capacity

Thursday, 20 February 2025 07:14

Rates Are There To Fund A Business-Supporting Council - John Leahy

Thursday, 20 February 2025 06:51

House Prices Rising In Midlands

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 17:44

26 Nominations For Offaly Person Of The Year And Unsung Hero Of Offaly Awards

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 17:34

Sexual Health Education Needed - TUS Athlone Sexual Health Manager

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 17:30

Cabin Style Homes May Not Require Planning Permission

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 16:45

Proposed Tourist Tax In Dublin Could Benefit Midlands - Offaly TD

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 16:21

Registration Now Open for Mullingar's Darkness Into Light Walk

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 16:09

Insurance Reform Needed Urgently -Cynthia Ní Mhurchú

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 15:58

Emergency Services At The Scene Of Offaly Crash

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 15:36

Westmeath Gardaí Investigating String Of Burglaries

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 13:56

Ukranians Numbers Fleeing War In Midlands Increases

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 13:53

Offaly Councillor Hits Out At Local Authority Over Broken Street Lights

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 12:39

Highly Likely Ireland Would Contribute To Ukraine Peace Force - Cathal Berry

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 11:58

Westmeath Wellness Company Appears In New Bridget Jones Film

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 09:57

Spike In Drivers Caught Without Insurance In Laois and Offaly

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 08:54

Midlands Behind In Employment Share in IDA Ireland Companies

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 07:29

Westmeath Gardaí Make €15k Cocaine Seizure

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 06:44

Athlone River Festival Set To Headline August Bank Holiday Weekend

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 19:28

ODVSS Welcomes Custodial Sentence In Coco's Law Case

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 19:15

Seven Midlands Projects Getting Over €1m In EU Just Transition Funding

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 18:36

OPW Minister Defends State's Vacant Property Approach

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 18:27

Financial Times Names Midlands As 'European Region of the Future'

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:53

Emergency Services Attend Offaly Crash

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:18

"Patron Saint Of Playstation" Remembered As Curious And Intelligent Ahead Of Canonnisation

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:52

Nearly €200k Worth Of Contraband Seized in Midlands, Dublin and Rosslare

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:19

Midlands Named As European Region Of The Future

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:04

State's Behaviour Over Midlands Accommodation Centre Is "Shameful" - Frankie Keena

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 11:18

Westmeath Only Midlands County Above National Average Vacancy Rate

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 10:47

Clonmacnoise Visitor Centre Awarded Excellence In Visitor Experience

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 09:42

Reminder Issued On No 5 Axel Zone On Westmeath Road

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 09:11

Teachers Union Defend Delayed Leaving Cert Reform

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 07:55

Laois Local Authority To Carry Out Traffic Calming Survey

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 07:28

Ireland Needs To Be Prepared For Hybrid Warfare - Westmeath Security Analyst

Monday, 17 February 2025 18:30

People of the Midlands Advised Not To Pack Away Raincoats Just Yet

Monday, 17 February 2025 18:23

Westmeath Councillor Calls For Borrowing Framework In TUS Athlone

Monday, 17 February 2025 17:44

Laois Deputy Underlines Value Of Health Centres After HSE Update

Monday, 17 February 2025 15:41

IPAV Argues For Housing Developer Tax Incentives

Monday, 17 February 2025 14:30

Future Of Westmeath Asylum Seeker Accommodation Centre Cast Into Doubt After Adjourned Hearing

Monday, 17 February 2025 13:50

Legal Notices Served To Midlands Households Over 'Dodgy Boxes'

Monday, 17 February 2025 12:10

Ireland Can No Longer Hide Behind Neutrality To Protect Itself - Security Analyst

Monday, 17 February 2025 08:56

Higher Education Minister To Look Into TUS Athlone Accommodation

Monday, 17 February 2025 07:26

Hundreds Join 'Justice For Joe' March In Laois

Monday, 17 February 2025 07:20

Mullingar Matchmaker Shares Her Top Online Dating Tips

Friday, 14 February 2025 16:34

44 Historic Midlands Buildings To Receive State Funding

Friday, 14 February 2025 16:20

€46.2m Invested in Midlands Regional Roads Network

Friday, 14 February 2025 16:17

Turn2Me Launch Free Online Monthly Support Group For Midlands Parents

Friday, 14 February 2025 16:13

Preferred Option For N4 Road Development Project In Westmeath Published

Friday, 14 February 2025 15:14

"Who Is The Genius Who Came Up With The Stripes?" - Laois TD Slams New Speed Limit Signs

Friday, 14 February 2025 14:08

Offaly Family Raise €200k In Two Days For Daughters Life Saving Treatment

Friday, 14 February 2025 12:24

Midlands Production Company Up For Award At Tonight's IFTAS

Friday, 14 February 2025 12:13

M7 Stone Throwers "Need To Be Taken Out Of Society" - Irish Road Haulage Association

Friday, 14 February 2025 09:49

Laois Senator Rails Against Suggestion Revenue Will Tax First Responder Vehicles

Friday, 14 February 2025 08:13

Decision On Location For Arson Trial For Westmeath Man Will Be Made In May

Friday, 14 February 2025 07:18

Longford Westmeath TD Calls For End To Courtroom Counsellor Notes

Friday, 14 February 2025 06:44

Offaly TD Voices Confidence Over Independent Junior Ministers

Thursday, 13 February 2025 18:36

Midlands Farmers In Line For €3m In Tillage Payments

Thursday, 13 February 2025 17:45

"Faster, Warmer, More Efficient Homes" - Minister Launches Construction Skills Course In Offaly

Thursday, 13 February 2025 16:11

Westmeath Link Road Closing For A Month Due To Residential Development

Thursday, 13 February 2025 15:21

Bord Na Mona Workers Meet With Opposition Leaders In Daíl

Thursday, 13 February 2025 15:16

EU Commission Need To Get Serious About Mercosur - Barry Cowen

Thursday, 13 February 2025 14:34

Laois TD Questions Arts Council's €6.7m Spend

Thursday, 13 February 2025 13:32

New McDonalds Branch Could Open In Westmeath

Thursday, 13 February 2025 10:16

Healthcare Workers To Protest Outside Longford Westmeath TD's Department

Thursday, 13 February 2025 09:27

An Offaly TD Is Calling For The N52 Link road Development

Thursday, 13 February 2025 08:46

Person Arrested On Board Midlands Train

Thursday, 13 February 2025 07:14

St Patrick's Day Committee In Laois Making Historic Pipe Presentation This Weekend

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 18:48

Offaly Town Facing Challenging Trading Conditions - Chamber of Commerce

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 18:30

"You Never Forget That Phone call" - Sarah Drennan On Calling Her Parents About Her Brother's Death

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 17:41

Family Left Joining The Dots After Offaly Man's Disappearance Last Month

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 15:51

Offaly Company Confirms Redundancies Are Coming

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 15:05

Four Arrested After Midlands Search Operation Into Organised Crime Group

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 13:49

Over €15k Raised After Blaze Destroyed Offaly Grandmother's House

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 13:46

Two Arrested Over €5m Kildare Cocaine Seizure

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 13:45

DPP Set To Appeal Sentence For Joe Drennan's Killer

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 12:08

Road Cleared After Westmeath Crash

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 12:05

Offaly Water Supply Removed From EPA Vulnerable List

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 09:37

Appeal For Witnesses To Offaly Crash

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 08:36

Offaly Business Closing After 30 Years

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 07:44

LOETB Hosting Offaly Wellness Workshop

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 07:19

Over 200 Midlands Families To Receive First Newborn Grant Payment This Week

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:37

IKEA Launch New Click And Collect Site In Westmeath

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:35

Offaly Company Set For Short Notice Redundancies This Week

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:23

Westmeath Gardaí Seize Dangerously Modified Car

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:16

Call For Review Into Career Break System From Roscommon-Galway TD

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:13

Mary Lou McDonald Meets Joe Drennan's Family

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:11

Reporting System Should Be In Place For Dog Attacks-IFA President

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:53

Westmeath One Of The Lowest Spending Counties On Flowers For Valentines

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:16

Offaly Man Killed In Car Crash To Be Laid To Rest Thursday

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 12:37

Calving Season "Draining" Time For Farmers - IFA

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 12:14

Offaly Woman Offering Secular Funeral And Weddings Done However People Want

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 11:44

Transfer Of BNM Employees Is Critical-Midlands MEP

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 10:37

Gardaí Investigating Two Westmeath Burglaries

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 09:10

'Europe Plans To De-Escalates Risks For Tariffs In Ireland' - Enterprise Minister

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 08:22

Laois Restaurant Receives Michelin Star

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 07:11

Going To Eurovision Is "A Golden Card"-Westmeath Songwriter Behind Irish Eurovision Entry

Monday, 10 February 2025 17:32

Offaly Man Nearly Reaches Fundraising Goal For Cancer Treatment In 24 Hours

Monday, 10 February 2025 17:24

Unemployment in Midlands Remains Static

Monday, 10 February 2025 17:17

Domestic Abuse Register Should Be Enforced-Offaly Domestic Violence Support Service

Monday, 10 February 2025 17:12

Growth and Profitability Reasons Behind Bord Na Mona Sale

Monday, 10 February 2025 15:08

Man Dies In Offaly Road Crash

Monday, 10 February 2025 14:45

Appeal For Witnesses Following Criminal Damage In Laois

Monday, 10 February 2025 14:20

Government To Examine Other Options To Rent Pressure Zones

Monday, 10 February 2025 12:28

TUS Athlone Win Funding For Research Equipment

Monday, 10 February 2025 11:14

Close To 12,000 People Employed By Enterprise Ireland Clients Across Midlands

Monday, 10 February 2025 09:45

Sale Of Only Irish Public Recycling Company "Economic Vandalism" - SIPTU

Monday, 10 February 2025 08:46

Water Supply Interruptions In Offaly Tomorrow

Monday, 10 February 2025 07:44

Time, Safe, and Stay - The Three Keys Words To Remember After International Epilepsy Day

Monday, 10 February 2025 06:51

Grants Of €1,000 Available For Midlands Businesses

Friday, 7 February 2025 16:24

Ireland's Largest STEM Fair Calling For Entries To Midlands Events

Friday, 7 February 2025 16:18

Bord Na Mona Recycling Actively Seeking Bids For Company

Friday, 7 February 2025 15:42

Over 30 New Social Homes Delivered In Westmeath This Week

Friday, 7 February 2025 15:23

American Woman In Laois Sets Sights On Top Prize In US Gameshow

Friday, 7 February 2025 15:21

More Loans Being Borrowed And At Higher Value, According To New Figures

Friday, 7 February 2025 13:44

Irish Eurovision Entry To Be Chosen Tonight

Friday, 7 February 2025 13:28

Changes In Speed Limits Also Needed In Built Up Areas - Laois Councillor

Friday, 7 February 2025 10:54

Laois Gardaí Seize Two Cars In One Night

Friday, 7 February 2025 10:08

Two Men Appear In Court Over Major Drug Seizure In Laois

Friday, 7 February 2025 08:13

"Walk For Justice" Taking Place In Honour Of Laois Student

Friday, 7 February 2025 07:45

Laois County Council Target Housing And Employment For New Corporate Plan

Friday, 7 February 2025 06:49

Over 160 People In Westmeath Still Waiting To Be Reconnected To Eir Network

Thursday, 6 February 2025 17:40

Laois Land Among Most Valuable Nationwide According To New Figures

Thursday, 6 February 2025 17:31

Teenager Charged With Assault Of Midlands Dad Due Back In Court

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:58

Irish Road Haulage Association Call For Better Enforcement Of Speed Limits

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:34

Not Enough Outdoor Staff In ESB Or Local Authorities - Deputy Stanley

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:32

Draft Syllabus For New Primary School Languages Not Practical - Crewit Resourcing

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:30

People Should Use Post Office If They Don't Want It To Close, Says Midlands Postmaster

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:24

January 2025 Hottest Recorded World Wide

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:21

Bord Na Mona Recycling Workers Threaten Industrial Action If Company Is Privatised

Thursday, 6 February 2025 16:12

Students Demand Justice For Death Of Laois' Joe Drennan At Vigil

Thursday, 6 February 2025 15:49

Two Men Charged In Relation To €14m Laois Cocaine Seizure

Thursday, 6 February 2025 14:15

Westmeath Man Pleads Guilty To Historic Sexual Assaults

Thursday, 6 February 2025 13:34

Education Minister To Ensure Modular Units Are Installed In Offaly School

Thursday, 6 February 2025 12:43

Midlands 103's Daily Audience Sees Year-On-Year Growth

Thursday, 6 February 2025 12:22

Public Aid Laois Gardaí In Stopping Bogus Callers

Thursday, 6 February 2025 09:44

Joe Drennan's Family Join Students To Call For DPP Review Of Hit And Run Sentence

Thursday, 6 February 2025 09:29

IFA Warn Farmers Off Solo Repair Runs After Storm Éowyn

Thursday, 6 February 2025 07:49

Three Men Remain In Custody Over Laois €14m Drug Seizure

Thursday, 6 February 2025 06:46

Roscommon Family Without Power For 12 Days

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 18:32

Tidy Towns Insurance Initiative Set For Midlands In 2025

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 18:29

Laois Senator Maria McCormack Proud To Be A Woman In The Seanad

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 18:21

Westmeath Songwriter Among Irish Eurovision Finalists

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 16:44

Westmeath School Petition To Fix "Death Trap" Junction

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 16:36

Midlands Asylum Seeker Numbers Rise Slightly

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 16:27

Longford Westmeath TD Questions Legal System After Conviction Of Westmeath Gym Owner

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 15:11

Calls For Appeal Of Sentence For Man Who Killed Laois Student In Hit And Run

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 15:07

€500k Worth Of Drugs And Contraband Seized By Revenue Officers

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 13:35

Women Earning More Than Men In Bord Na Mona

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 11:37

Enterprise Minister Acknowledges Business Impact Of Storm Éowyn

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 10:34

Price Of A Stamp To See Rise This Month

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 10:04

Man Hospitalised Following Offaly Crash

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 08:24

Bord Na Mona Recycling To Meet SIPTU Over Possible Sale

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 07:43

Three Men Held Over €14m Cocaine Seizure In Laois

Wednesday, 5 February 2025 06:28

Man Receives Medical Treatment Following Violent Incident In Westmeath

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 17:01

Funding Announced For Education And Training Boards

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:48

People Urged To Watch Out For Catfish Red Flags

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:46

Government To Work On De-Escalating Tensions With USA - Enterprise Minister

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:43

Too Much Focus On Electrification For Heat Supply - Bioenergy Expert

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:39

New Laois Exhibition To Explore Addiction And Creativity

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:34

Not Enough Communication Over Changing Speed Limits - Offaly Driving Instructor

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:28

Public Invited To Electric Picnic AGM This Month

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:12

Offaly Down Syndrome Association Launch New Podcast

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 13:32

Longford Westmeath TD Attends Trade And Industry Ministers Meeting In Poland

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 12:24

Drunk And Drugged Drivers Arrested In Laois During Bank Holiday Weekend

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 11:09

Third Time Lucky For Maria McCormack In Seanad Election

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 09:11

Gardaí Appeal for Witnesses Following Meath Crash

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 08:49

Auto Enrolling People To Vote Would Boost Voter Turnout-Tommy Mulligan

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 07:57

Storm "Preparedness" Needs Reviewing - Irish Rural Link

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 06:52