Perhaps it’s the fact that Irish people have today turned so far away from every standard and every principle on which this country was founded that the post of Presidency, already, in political circles long since cast aside, is today being treated as valueless and an irrelevancy.
Last January, social care worker Ciara O’Connor from Killucan started the ROC Repay-In-Kind movement in her late brother Ryan’s memory, who died at the tender age of 22, leaving behind a devastated family and community.
Just two weeks ago, Michael Daly from Marlinstown, Mullingar celebrated his 90th birthday. His was the second shop opened by a member of the Daly family with the first one opened in Mary Street more than thirty years earlier.
There was a great attendance at Mullingar Greyhound Stadium last Saturday evening, 5 July, as young, and young at heart, gathered for a fantastic night out at the dogs.
The midlands looks set to get its own Level 3 Hospice with planning permission currently with Offaly County Council. The proposed site for the Development is at the Arden Lane, located in a quiet rural setting near the N52, just outside of Tullamore.
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has hit back at claims that his controversial “teachers” comment during last year’s election campaign damaged Fine Gael, calling the criticism “rubbish” and “complete and utter nonsense.”
Cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council, Aoife Davitt, has welcomed the council’s move to clamp down on illegal dumping through the rollout of mobile CCTV cameras across known black spots in the county.
