My Life in Politics: Aisling Moran on canvassing, helping people and why the HSE...
Aisling Moran, who is a Fine Gael councillor for the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District, is the latest to feature on our Life in Politics interview.
Though...
‘Health services should be controlled by local government’ says Laois county councillor
Laois County Councillor Aisling Moran has said that the health services should be controlled by local government and that the HSE needs to reformed.
Speaking...
1991 Election Memories: Liam Hyland champion of rural Ireland; Cathy Honan’s Senate term, the...
This piece by John Whelan originally appeared on LaoisToday ahead of last year's Local Elections
‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’, the more...
My Life in Politics: Aidan Mullins on early influences, a slow system and why...
My Life in Politics is a new weekly series on LaoisToday where we will chat with various local politicians - both past and present.
First...
2009 Election Memories: End of the Bertie era, end of the PDs, demise of...
This piece originally featured on LaoisToday on May 12 2019.
When Bertie Ahern won his hat-trick of general elections and was installed for his third...
Minister Flanagan says Fine Gael and Fianna Fail coming together is ‘to be welcomed’
Laois TD and Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has welcomed the coming together of his own party, Fine Gael, and Fianna Fail in a...
1999 Election Memories: The count that ended up in court as Fianna Fáil glory...
This piece originally featured on LaoisToday on May 6 2019.
If it’s nail-biting drama, excitement and intrigue you are looking for, forget about the Game...
Laois Labour party representatives welcome election of new leader
Tipperary's Alan Kelly was elected as the new leader of the Labour Party after defeating colleague Aodhan O Ríordáin in a contest on Friday.
Kelly,...
Local Fianna Fáil candidate Fiona O’Loughlin on course to be elected to the Seanad
Former Kildare South Fianna Fáil TD Fiona O'Loughlin should be in the mix for one of the seven seats on the Administrative panel in...
Mark Wall elected to the Seanad after marathon count
The Labour Party's Mark Wall has been elected to the Seanad after taking the seventh of nine seats for the Industrial and Commercial Panel...
Local Labour candidate Mark Wall in strong position to win Seanad seat
Labour candidate Mark Wall is well in the mix to win a Seanad seat following a strong first preference showing.
Wall, who polled strongly but...
2014 Election Memories: Carnage even before the off, FF and FG power sharing, a...
This piece by John Whelan originally featured on LaoisToday on April 28, 2019, ahead of the Local Elections.
In the biggest blow to local government...
Pippa Hackett returns to the Seanad as voting concludes for the Agricultural panel
The Green Party's Pippa Hackett from Geashill has been elected to the Seanad, taking one of the 11 seats on the Agricultural vocational panel.
Pippa,...
Laois-Offaly General Election 2020 candidate in the hunt for Seanad seat after 15 counts
The Seanad elections are ongoing at the moment and the counts for the different electoral districts are underway.
A total of 43 senators will be...
Seanad Elections: Laois stud farm owner seeking to be a voice for rural Ireland
The Seanad Elections are like the under world of Irish politics.
Senators have a lower profile, it's an incredibly complicated system and in ways the...
2004 Election Memories: No TDs, some PDs, a Sinn Féin breakthrough and a split...
This piece by John Whelan originally featured on LaoisToday on April 15 2019 ahead of last year's Local Elections.
While the country was still basking...
Seanad Election: Fiona O’Loughlin on losing her seat – and hitting the campaign trail...
One of the shock results of the General Election last month saw Fianna Fáil's Fiona O'Loughlin lose her seat in Kildare South.
She was the...
Seanad Elections: Local Labour candidate bidding to win seat after strong performance in General
Amid the wall-to-wall coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak, it would be easy to forget that there is actually a national election ongoing at the...
1979 Election Memories: The men in suits, the dealing in Donoghues, and Charlie McDonald...
Forty years ago in 1979 the first ever direct elections to the European Parliament were held in tandem with the local elections on June...
Laois representatives decide against travelling to New York for St Patrick’s Day
Laois’s official representatives who were due to go to New York for St Patrick’s Day have pulled out of the trip amid the outbreak...
Sinn Féin membership surge in Laois following General Election 2020
Sinn Féin have seen a huge rise in membership nationally since the 2020 General Election - a surge that has also been experienced by...
Laois Ogra Fianna Fáil rejects coalition with Fine Gael
The youth wing of Fianna Fàil is opposed to the party entering a government coalition with Fine Gael.
A statement by Laois Ógra PRO Jessica...
Explained: Who votes and how it works – five local candidates in the mix...
There a number of local candidates contesting for a seat in the Senate with nominations now closed and voting to commence later this month.
Two...
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil coalition the preferred option for Laois minister
Laois TD and the current Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan says it's his preference for his party Fine Gael to go into Government with...
LaoisToday columnist and journalist set to appear on popular RTE Radio 1 show
LaoisToday political columnist and journalist, John Whelan will appear on The Late Debate tonight, Wednesday, March 4.
The RTE Radio 1 flagship current affairs programme...
Box by Box: How the Edenderry area voted in the 2020 General Election
Brian Stanley's utter dominance across the Laois-Offaly constituency was nowhere more evident than in the Edenderry Municipal District as he polled more first preferences...
In Pictures: Great excitement in Leinster House as TDs arrive for 33rd Dáil
Though there’s plenty of serious business ahead, there was an excitement around Leinster House throughout Thursday as the 33rd Dail sat for the first...
New Portalington TD Berry puts focus on Defence Forces and schools as Dail journey...
With numbers so tight in the arithmetic to form the next government, the votes of Independent TDs like Portarlington's Cathal Berry could be the...
Laois TD Stanley calls on Fianna Fail to stop ‘playing games’ and enter talks
Sinn Fein TD for Laois Brian Stanley has called on Fianna Fail to stop playing games and enter talks to form the next government.
The...
Box by Box: How the Tullamore area voted in Offaly in the 2020 General...
Barry Cowen was the clear winner in the Tullamore Municipal District in this year's General Election as the tallies show he got over 4,300...
