Conor Ganly

Ireland

Deputy and News Editor at Leinster Express

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Articles

Laois town's reward for no mowing in May

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Abbeyleix Tidy Towns is delighted to announce the return of its No Mow May Pollinator Lawn Art Competition 2025 and is urging local people to get involved!They say the community competition is part of the Abbeyleix Pollinator Project and supports the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, helping raise awareness about the decline of pollinators and the importance of creating biodiverse environments in gardens.
Win heifer for hurling and help Laois GAA club

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Laois GAA club Borris-in-Ossory Kilcotton is giving you the chance to win this fabulous valuable prize in a draw to support the Gaelic games in the south Laois club. The club is already busy selling tickets for the raffle to win a grade Belgian Blue cross heifer born in October 2023. If a show Heifer is not your thing, the GAA club say you can take a cash prize of €2500 instead. There are also some smaller cash prizes for the runners-up.
Laois RTÉ star comes home to Slieve Blooms

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Mountrath native Claire Byrne is returning home to her roots in the new season of an RTÉ series which is sure to give Laois and the Slieve Blooms a great tourism boost as the summer begins. The Laois presenter of Today with Claire Byrne features in the much-loved series Tracks & Trails, which returns on Friday, May 9 at 8pm for its 12th season on RTÉ.
In Pictures Memory Lane: Laois golfers tee up

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Mountrath and & The Heath presentations Take a Laois Live golfing drive down memory lane with pictures that featured in the Leinster Express from the summer of 2006 with photos from golfing presentations in The Heath and Mountrath Golf Clubs.
Laois gets ready to rev up in memory of Trev

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Two mental health charities and the Mountrath Women's Shed are set to get a boost from an upcoming tractor run fundraiser held in memory of a Laois man who died suddenly in 2021. The latest edition of the Rev for Trev 2025 Tractor Run takes place on Sunday, May 11 in Mountrath and surrounding areas. The organisers say previous years have delivered fun for all ages while raising funds for good community causes and they say this year will be no different.
In PICTURES Memory Lane: Lovely Laois fun

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Whodo you know in our Laois photos Take a trip down Memory Lane with Laois Live to June 2006 and pictures that featured that year in the Leinster Express from a Christy Moore concert in Portlaoise, a BBQ presentation by Jim Tynan in Clonaslee and entertainment from Rathdowney's Helen Campion and Michael Creagh at the Day Care Centre in Abbeyleix. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Related topics: Memory Lane , Portlaoise , Abbeyleix , Clonaslee , Free Articles ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE...
3D virtual tour Laois jails and other prisons in pipeline

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Have you ever wondered what life is like for prisoner officers and inmates behind the high walls of Laois jails? Well, the Irish Prison Service believes it is going to be able to satisfy that curiosity with a new prison project which it says will give the public a virtual insight into prisons in Portlaoise and other parts of Ireland. The Service also wants to use the technology to help to prepare criminals who are jailed for the first time for life behind bars.
Promise to expand Portlaoise's Midlands Prison in Laois not being kept

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

A Government pledge to expand the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise to create more badly prison places is not being kept, insists the Prison Officers Association. Speaking at thePrisonOfficersAssociation Annual Conference in Galway, Tony Power, POA President also lashed out over the problems his members face in Portlaoise and other locations caused by too many prisoners being locked up in jails that are too small.
Christian Brothers Laois land dealings in Portlaoise exposed as former child-abusing principal named

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

The sale of a prime Laois land in the heart of Portlaoise by the Christian Brothers has been put under the microscope in a new RTÉ documentary, which revealed that a convicted child sex offender who was principal of the Laois school was also central to how the religious order runs its property dealings.
Laois views sought on anti-social behaviour on trains, buses and trams

1 week ago | leinsterexpress.ie | Conor Ganly

Public transport workers want the views of the thousands of Laois people who use public transport every about anti-social problems they have to put up with on their journeys. The appeal to commuters in Laois and other counties is part of an online public survey launched by the SIPTU Respect Transport Workers campaign at the annual Dublin trade union May Day march.