18 year old Kim Murphy from Edenderry Co. Offaly raised €400 for Irish Autism Action following her parachute tandem skydive in Clonbullogue on Saturday April 27th.

The recent James Bond night in the Nissan Garage in Burlington Business Park, the brain child of Sheila McDermott and Mary Roche, shook the pockets of the ‘ladies’ of the town to support the Arts.

Managers Susan Ryan (Citizens Information Service) and Nuala Crowe Taft (National Advocacy Service) jointly reported at the AGM of Co Offaly Citizens Information Limited that in 2012 Co Offaly CIS answered over 19000 questions and helped 12863 callers.

Tullamore Parish Centre fundraising committee have revealed names of the three judges who will critique the acts on Friday, May 17.

The trio are Father Sean Heaney, Regina McCarthy, Tullamore Stage School and Lorraine Wynne, Midland Drama School.

The last two weeks have brought unprecedented success to The Tullamore Academy Chamber Choir.

BIRR’s Local Tourist Office is to remain open this year. That’s according to Laois/Offaly TD Marcella Corcoran Kennedy who welcomed the news this week.

Midland Regional hospitals, Portlaoise and Tullamore along with Naas General hospital, St James’s hospital, the Coombe and Tallaght hospital will form the Dublin Midlands hospital group under the new hospital groups and small hospitals framework.

President Michael D Higgins has done a good day’s work in his comments on the European Union’s austerity policies.

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is right. Governments must govern. The Catholic Church has every right to express its views on the abortion legislation, but it is up to the Government to legislate in the light of what the courts and the Constitution require.

Archdeacon Leslie Stevenson of St Paul’s parish church in Portarlington, has confirmed that he is to continue on as Rector there and for his five other churches in Laois and Kildare.

As the clocks went forward on Easter Sunday March 31, large crowds, young and old, gathered in the chilly dawn on the slopes of the Slieve Bloom mountains to celebrate the most important day on the religious calender.

Despite receiving a petition with 12,500 signatures to name the new bridge over the Grand Canal in Tullamore after missing woman Fiona Pender, Tullamore Town Council again voted against the proposal at their meeting on Thursday evening.

Hundreds of people are preparing to participate in the Emma Dooley Foundation 10km run and 5km run/walk in Ferbane on Saturday 15 June to raise money for the Strange Boat Donor Foundation and the great work of the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

Participants on the Long Walk Home - Grand Canal Challenge, and event organised by Peter McVerry Trust, set off from Shannon Harbour on Friday morning to raise funds for the homeless.

Can you help create the world’s largest coin mosaic in Tullamore For The Guinness Book of records?

CORU, the body charged with regulating health and social care professionals, has advised social workers that they have just three weeks to apply to register with their Regulator.

The National Consumer Agency (NCA) today published its latest motor insurance comparison survey on www.nca.ie. The survey compared quotes, for eight different driver profiles, provided to the NCA by eight insurers in Ireland.

The contestants have been unveiled for the eagerly anticipated Tullamore ‘Stars in their Eyes’.

Offaly is gearing itself up for a return visit from the Obama family next month.

In the year of The Gathering, people of County Offaly are today being encouraged by the Heritage Council to get involved in National Heritage Week 2013 by organising an event in their community and showcase their local natural and cultural heritage.