Offaly Street News Today

Dochas Offaly Cancer Support has paid a beautiful and poignant tribute to the memory of 22-year old Sam Hayden Kilroe this week after a bench was unveiled in his memory at the centre's headquarters on Offaly Street in Tullamore.

By Frank Taaffe ROAD closures were the subject of some angry comments on Facebook during the past week. They coincided with the publication of a notice…

A street in Athy town centre will be closed next month for 12 weeks. The closure of Offaly Street from Emily Square to Meeting Lane is set to take place from 6…

By Frank Taaffe GLASEALY resident Thomas Rawson wrote in 1807 ‘the extensive town of Athy ….. holds out much invitation to English capital and English industry …

THE holiday period saw so many of our local community members pass to the other side. The sadness of their passing was heightened when contrasted with the…

I AM looking at photographs of Athy people, taken for the most part on Crom a Boo bridge during the closing years of the 1940s. It’s almost 75 years since the…

I WAS on a journey of remembrance last week as I travelled to and from Derry where I spent a few days within the walls of that ancient city.

AFTER 105 years the name W.T. Duthie may soon disappear from the streetscape of Athy as the sale of the jeweller shop has been completed and new owners take…

IT’S exciting times currently in Athy Photographic Society. The club recently hosted an outdoor Culture Night exhibition in the arches of Athy Courthouse…

248 women and children have lost their lives through domestic violence in this country since 1997. The women were poignantly remembered last Thursday at a confe...