Barrow Line News Today

By Conor Forrest IT’S a beautiful September morning in Athy. A group of people bedecked in orange hi-vis jackets congregate outside the Youth Café on Meeting…

EYE ON THE PAST 1598 ATHY is home to many fine buildings, some more important than others because of their history and their links with the town’s story…

A BELOVED Bagenalstown solicitor has been fittingly commemorated in India’s ‘City of Joy’ with the sponsoring of a remarkable young woman. Young lawyer…

A new book charts the history of the Grand Canal as it weaves its way through Kildare, Laois and the Midlands on the way to the River Shannon. All The Way By Th...

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways.

Gwen Wilkinson built and paddled her own canoe along the waterways of Ireland

Kildare County Council is seeking tenders for the development of the Blueway through the townlands of Lowtown, Rathangan, Monasterevin, Vicarstown and Athy. The...

A contract is being offered for development of the Blueway amenity and tourist attraction along the Laois and Kildare border. Kildare County County Council has ...

This closure is due to a scheduled one-day power outage in the Monasterevin area in Co Kildare on Wednesday 17 August

Amid concerns over reduced water levels this year on the Grand and Royal Canals, Afloat.ie reader and former Oireachtas policy advisor Cathal Murphy f...