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OPINION: We're abusing Tony Holohan for simply doing his job

There I was thinking journalists and politicians took all the flak and abuse online. Immunologists are on the list now and Tony Holohan as Chief Medical Officer (CMO has been up for shaving since last summer. Dr Holohan was seen as somewhat of a ...

12 Jul 2021 at 12:02

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OPINION: An Offaly councillor asked for €5 for Ukrainians - the response was disgusting

Very few things shock me in life anymore; so many appalling things happen everyday in our own communities and around the world, it is easy to become removed from it all. But I was shocked on Tuesday when I read the majority of responses to an ...

14 Feb 2024 at 14:59

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OPINION: Of course we shouldn't have opened the 'wet' pubs

Monday, September 21, marked a significant week in the country's battle against Covid-19. The wet pubs re-opening became somewhat of a milestone for us as a country; a sign that we were returning to normal and we could say 'cheers' to how we ...

25 Sept 2020 at 13:32

Local News

OPINION: Offaly people deserve to know where Covid cases are in the county

We hear a lot about Covid-19, don't we? How we hold to key to suppressing it, beating it, crushing it. We hear adverts on the TV and radio about playing our part and holding firm, washing hands, staying apart and sticking together. We ...

22 Mar 2021 at 11:28

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OPINION: Offaly people deserve to know where Covid cases are in the county

19 Mar 2021 at 16:06

Sport

OPINION: 'Ah ref!' - Mouthy sideline parents have created culture of violence in sport

The vicious attack on a soccer referee in Offaly this week has started a very important conversation. Although the game between Horseleap United and Mullingar Town was not an underage game, the incident raises a question about ...

14 Nov 2018 at 18:05

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OPINION: Social media isn't the great big scourge of society - we are

Social media is perhaps the most societally transformative technology to sweep the world since the television or telephone. It undoubtedly connects us in a way never before experienced and possibly never to be repeated. It ...

08 Jul 2019 at 13:48

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OPINION: Offaly needs to turn shops into housing to save itself

The notion of town-living is almost extinct in Offaly. The over-the-shop concept that so often formed part of town and council planning is a thing of the past, not least because many of those shops no longer exist. A ...

05 Mar 2019 at 17:07

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OPINION: Why an airport in Offaly isn't crazy and could actually work

"Insanity" - that's how Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary described the idea of a regional airport in Offaly back in 2016, and yet the private consortium behind it, led by the Tullamore-based Patrick Little, remain ...

18 Oct 2018 at 18:48

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OPINION: Ploughing organisers made a mistake in Offaly but will never admit it

The National Ploughing Association is a force of nature, of that there is no doubt. A quarter of a million people in a field in Offaly, Carlow, Laois, or wherever they set their sights on, is something to ...

24 Sept 2018 at 20:51

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OPINION: Parents should be punished for their children's anti-social behaviour

Government ministers are regularly lampooned in this country for not doing enough on the issues within their remit. However, at the weekend, Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan raised an extremely ...

01 Aug 2018 at 16:30

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OPINION: Meat factory workers treated like the dregs of the frontline

While the country has rightly applauded doctors, nurses, carers and other essential workers during the current Covid-19 crisis, one sector appears to have been treated with other contempt. Clusters ...

15 May 2020 at 13:20

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