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The capture of Patrick Geraghty, commandant of the 3rd Battalion (covering Tyrrellspass, Kilclonfert, Croghan and Rhode), North Offaly Brigade IRA, and Joseph B...
DESPITE Covid-19 restrictions and ongoing issues with access to the monastic site, an extensive programme has been lined up in Durrow to celebrate the 1500th an...
THE founder of the charity which has leased Durrow Abbey from the Office of Public Works (OPW) called gardai to the premises last Wednesday. Elizabeth Garrahy, ...
REVEALED: Offaly's favourite building has been crowned Reporter: '); '); The Round Tower at the ancient monastic site of Clonmacnoise has been selected as Offaly's Favourite Building. The selection follows voting by thousands of readers from an initial list of 50 buildings which was narrowed down to a shortlist of five and published in last week's Tribune. The tower, known as O'Rourke's Tower, forms part of an extensive site that includes the ruins of a cathedral, seven churches, two round towers, three high crosses and a large collection of Early Christian grave slabs. Most of the church...
A new role for Offaly's old Tullamore DEW warehouse Reporter: '); It’s six months now since William Grant announced the closing of the old Bonded Warehouse Visitor Centre at Bury Quay, Tullamore. The company that makes the world-famous and second-largest selling Irish whiskey, Tullamore DEW is going to concentrate its energies on a new visitor centre at the 2014–17 purpose-built Tullamore DEW distillery at Clonminch and understandably so. The idea of a visitor centre at Bury Quay was conceived in the early 1990s as a way of attracting visitors to Tullamore town. Tullamore had been desi...