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A HSE executive told a recent Council meeting that a major Offaly town will not be getting a Midoc service. This out of hours GP service was withdrawn from the ...

PEOPLE in Banagher are unable to access banking services 24-hours a day since the last bank operated ATM machine closed down last year. Currently two shops in B...

MOST of the motorists speeding through villages in Offaly are local drivers, a garda said this week. “Its people from within the towns and villages that ...

SECURITY cameras could be installed in public places around the Coolderry area as soon as the New Year, a meeting was told on Monday. The Arthur Elliott Communi...

IF victims co-operate with gardai the perpetrators of assaults will be brought to court, a senior Birr garda said this week. Inspector Alan Kerins was commentin...

THE Board of the HSE has given approval to the development of a new Primary Care Centre at Townparks, Birr. The Centre will be located in the field between the ...

Councillors breathed a collective sigh of relief when they learned last week that the Department for Housing, Local Government and Heritage stated it will grant...

Cllr John Carroll told the October meeting of Birr Municipal District that a link road between Banagher Road and Tullamore Road is badly needed in order to alle...

The councillors of Offaly County Council slammed the slow roll out of the Just Transition programme during their recent monthly meeting. Director of Services St...

Sell-out and exaggeration claims in bitter Offaly wind energy split Reporter: );  ); AMID allegations of sell-outs, underhanded activity, exaggeration and emotional rhetoric, Offaly councillors voted by the narrowest of margins against a proposal to exclude Lemanaghan Bog entirely from an area in the county where wind farms may be permitted. Instead of adopting a motion from Cllr Ken Smollen for Lemanaghans outright exclusion, the council opted by nine votes to eight to pass an amendment tabl...