Meet your candidates: What is the biggest issue in their Constituency?
General Election 2020 is just 11 days away.
And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates who are running in Laois-Offaly...
‘We’re still waiting’ – Portlaoise Hospital committee voice ‘extreme disappointment and frustration’
The main local group behind the campaign to save Portlaoise Hospital have launched a scathing attack on Laois-Offaly TD and Minister for Justice Charlie...
Election Diary: Rural Ireland, Portlaoise Hospital and INTO forum
Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we’ll be bringing you a daily bulleting from the campaign trail – from...
In Pictures: A selection of classic images from the Laois-Offaly 2011 General Election count
There's something so classicly timeless about election count photos.
And even though it's only nine years ago, the photos from the 2011 Laois-Offaly General Election...
‘If Fine Gael are returned to Government … no plans to reduce capacity’ at...
With the 2020 General Election now less than two weeks away, Laois-Offaly TD and Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has said that he has...
Laois-Offaly candidate launches Green Party’s ‘Rural Manifesto’
Laois-Offaly General Election Green Party candidate Pippa Hackett launched her party's Rural Manifesto in the Dunamaise Arts Centre this afternoon.
The manifesto includes 'decent bus...
John Leahy hoping to make it third time lucky in Laois-Offaly
Kilcormac based councillor, John Leahy is on the ballot for Laois-Offaly for the third time. He hopes he can make the breakthrough and get...
Election Memories: FF meltdown makes way for Stanley in Laois-Offaly in 2011
Have you seen the 1917 World War 1 movie?
Well the 2011 General Election was something similar … for Fianna Fáil. They got slaughtered.
The unprecedented...
LISTEN: John Drennan and John Whelan join us in the latest LaoisToday Talking Politics...
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With just two weeks to go until polling day in the 2020 General Election, we sat...
Last Laois-Offaly seat between John Leahy and Pippa Hackett says long-serving political corr John...
The fifth seat in the Laois-Offaly constituency in the General Election will come down between independent candidate John Leahy and the Green Party's Pippa...
Strong Portarlington support as Cathal Berry launches Kildare South election campaign
Portarlington resident Dr Cathal Berry launched his bid for a Dáil seat in Kildare South in front of 150 people in the Keadeen Hotel...
John Whelan: The Ten Commandments – the top 10 election issues in Laois-Offaly
In 2016 the big issues on the doors, in the media and the hustings were unemployment, emigration, pay cuts, austerity cutbacks and the most...
Pauline Flanagan seeking breakthrough success as she launches election campaign
Pauline Flanagan is seeking a number of firsts in the upcoming General Election - as she bids not only to be the first female...
Laois-Offaly General Election count confirmed for Portlaoise
The counting of votes for the Laois-Offaly Constituency in General Election 2020 will take place in Portlaoise.
The premises being used for the count is...
More than €12 million for Laois roads while Sinn Fein make promise on housing
Laois TD and Minister for Justice & Equality, Charlie Flanagan, has today confirmed that over €12m in funding has been allocated to assist the...
The confirmed list of candidates in Laois-Offaly for General Election 2020
General Election 2020 in Laois-Offaly is a whole new ball game and like no general election ever held before in this constituency.
It is certainly...
The confirmed list of candidates in Kildare South for General Election 2020
With just over two weeks to go to the General Election, the candidates for the Kildare South district have been confirmed.
Kildare South is very...
Election Diary: Launches, pensions and a chance to meet the Kildare South candidates
Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we'll be bringing you a daily bulleting from the campaign trail - from...
United Ireland a large focus as Sinn Féin launch election campaign
The 2020 General Election is fast approaching and Sinn Féin have just one representative in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
Brian Stanley was the only TD in...
Fine Gael rally the troops and point to their record as they seek a...
The Fine Gael faithful from across the Laois-Offaly constituency turned out in large numbers in Mountmellick last night as the party launched their General...
Big battle in store in Kildare South as Laois and Offaly voters cross the...
This day three weeks we'll almost certainly be near the end of the General Election count - and from a Laois point of view...
Noel Tuohy steps into the election breach for Labour
In a dramatic late intervention the Labour Party will have a candidate running in Laois-Offaly after all.
Cllr Noel Tuohy has confirmed that he has...
Ireland’s newest political party selects school principal with Laois connections to run in Kildare...
The hotly contested South Kildare constituency is gearing up to be a fascinating battle with confirmation today that a school principal, Anita Mhic Gib,...
Election Diary: Greens move to mend fences as the IFA call candidates to account
Can the momentum in favour of the Greens reach the midlands and get behind their Laois-Offaly candidate, Senator Pippa Hackett?
It’s a big ask in...
Election Memories: FF leave seat behind them as Sinn Féin make a gain in...
Although joined at the hip since the birth of the nation Laois-Offaly were separated for the first time for general election purposes in 2016.
Previously,...
Brian Cowen’s influence still strong as Fianna Fáil launch Laois-Offaly campaign with big push...
It may be 13 years since Brian Cowen last fought a General Election but the former Taoiseach's standing among the Fianna Fáil ranks in...
LISTEN: John Whelan joins us on the Talking Politics Podcast to look ahead to...
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With the General Election now called and the date set for Saturday, February 8, we take...
People Before Profit enter the fray in Laois-Offaly with well known community activist
People Before Profit have entered the political fray in Laois-Offaly.
The Party will field a candidate in a general election in this constituency for the...
Labour left in the lurch as Barry pulls out
The Labour Party organisation in Laois-Offaly have been dealt a blow just as the General Election 2020 campaign kicks-off.
In a shock announcement the Party’s...
Laois-Offaly a totally different kettle of fish in 2020
General Election 2020 in Laois-Offaly is a whole new ball game and like no general election ever held before in this constituency.
It is certainly...
