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Slieve Bloom mountainbike trails host Biking Blitz competition

The new Slieve Bloom mountain bike trails burst into life last weekend and hosted a competition with a very strong local attendance. Biking Blitz recently held their first mountain bike race along the newly developed Slieve Bloom trails. Last ...

14 May 2022 at 13:39

Lifestyle

Why Denver and the Colorado Rockies offer the perfect city-mountain break

American singer-songwriter John Denver once sang, “Colorado Rocky Mountain high…I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.” I am all the richer then, spotting not one but two of these majestic birds of prey on the drive out of ...

11 Nov 2024 at 09:05

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Visitor numbers soar at Offaly village during pandemic

VISITOR numbers have increased dramatically to one Offaly village during the Covid-19 pandemic. Cllr John Clendennen has called for an off-road track to be provided between Kinnitty and the Slieve Blooms to cope with the surge. The Fine ...

20 Nov 2020 at 10:12

Local News

Slieve Bloom Bike Trail gets double green lights from Offaly and Laois authorities

The first two obstacles have been cleared smoothly for Coillte's proposed mountain bike trail in the Slieve Blooms, and excitement is growing that the trail may become a reality in the next year. Planning applications have now both ...

11 Feb 2017 at 13:28

Sport

Half Dozen reasons to be happy for Nicholls at Hereford

Paul Nicholls wondered if Half Dozen had a problem after Harry Cobden’s mount was a market drifter ahead of the Black Mountain Botanicals Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Hereford. Yet the strapping six-year-old made light work of his ...

30 Jan 2023 at 17:35

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Slieve Bloom Association marks pagan festival with goat milking

The Slieve Bloom Association is back! After two years of being out of action the group is delighted to be back in harness. They recently celebrated the pagan festival of Imbolc high in the Slieve Bloom Mountains. "As part of the ...

14 Feb 2022 at 12:03

Midland Tribune

OPINION (AN COLÚN): The pleasurable return to pre-Covid normality

It's been noticeable in the last couple of weeks that many things in the locality have now reactivated as Covid has moved from pandemic to endemic and restrictions have been removed. Apart from the fact that some people are ...

12 Mar 2022 at 19:43

Sport

Liam Manning praises staff as Bristol City earn a point at Oxford

Bristol City head coach Liam Manning gave credit to coach Pat Mountain for playing a big part after Mark Sykes struck a superb equaliser from a clever free-kick in the 1-1 draw at Oxford. It was Sykes’s first goal of the ...

01 Feb 2025 at 15:36

Sport

Female downhill mountain bikers at ‘significantly’ higher risk of injury – study

Top-level female competitors in downhill mountain biking (DHMTB) are “significantly” more at risk of injury than their male counterparts, a study has found. The University of Edinburgh study, which looked at 230 elite ...

10 Feb 2025 at 00:01

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'Easy to miss' - Signpost in the Slieve Bloom that went viral has been replaced

A leisure spot's signpost in the Slieve Bloom that first made headlines for all the wrong reasons back in 2015, and crops its head up at least once a year since, is no more with a new sign taking its place. Nestled ...

11 Nov 2023 at 16:10

Local News

Gardaí and rescuers rush to Offaly mountain as two people go missing

Gardaí and Civil Defence volunteers successfully located and helped two walkers who got lost in the Slieve Bloom Mountains yesterday evening. A total of 15 personnel made up of gardaí and rescuers from Laois and ...

03 Nov 2024 at 10:33

National News

Potentially dangerous Army round recovered after public appeal

Missing ordnance which gardai said may have contained explosive material has been recovered following a public appeal. The appeal over the possible live Army round seen near a walking trail in Co Wicklow was ...

16 Apr 2025 at 08:21

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