Joe Barrett

WHAT began 70 years ago between the then Young Farmers Club movement and the Clonaslee Guild of The Irish Countrywomen’s Association is now considered to be one of the season’s premier agricultural shows of its kind in the country. Celebrating agriculture... See more

Sinn Féin has just one councillor in Laois after Aidan Mullins resigned from the party last week. Cllr Mullins announced his departure from Sinn Féin after a complaint was lodged to party headquarters by one of his fellow members, accusing the 73-year-old... See more

MINNEAPOLIS—For months, crisis after crisis has battered this Midwestern city and state. The killing of a state legislator and her husband. A mass shooting of Catholic school children. A sprawling fraud scandal that scuttled the governor’s re-election hop... See more

SPEAKING with members of the press at the preview of the site today, and to what type of weather festivalgoers can expect over the Electric Picnic weekend in Stradbally, Alan O’Reilly, ‘The Carlow Weatherman’, had this to say. “I think the weather will be... See more

THE Director of the Electric Picnic Melvin Benn said that there is no policy in place at his festival that will prevent any artist or band voicing their opinions or flying flags from the stages and that “mics won’t be switched off.” He made the comments w... See more