News from Laois

Support for Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin is tied at 22%, a new opinion poll suggests.

29 March 2025

A senior Hamas official has said the group approved a new Gaza ceasefire proposal put forth by mediators, urging Israel to back it but warning the Iran-backed group's weapons were a "red line".

29 March 2025

A man in his 70s has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Co Donegal.

29 March 2025

The clocks will go forward by one hour overnight marking the official start of 'Summer time' in Ireland.

29 March 2025

Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have rallied in Istanbul calling for democracy to be defended after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked Turkey's worst street unrest in over a decade.

29 March 2025

Irish aid agency Goal has said more than 900 of its staff, including 28 people in Ireland, are at risk of losing their jobs due to cuts to international aid funding.

29 March 2025

Denmark has said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.

29 March 2025

Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.

29 March 2025

Rescue teams arrive in Myanmar, with personnel from Russia and China among the first on the ground to assist with the search for survivors after yesterday's devastating earthquake.

29 March 2025

The Dáil will never be the same again. That was the Taoiseach's view on a week where dire warnings about the health of Irish democracy were furiously issued by politicians.

29 March 2025

US President Donald Trump is proposing new tariffs on 2 April. So far, the situation remains fluid, and no final decisions appear to have been made.

29 March 2025

It has not been a good week for the CEO, the senior leadership team, the executives, the facilitators and the transport managers of the country's biggest drug trafficking gang.

29 March 2025

To mark Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell's eye-popping surprise appearance in the new season of Mike White's acclaimed series The White Lotus, we've rounded up some of the most memorable celebrity cameos in TV history.

29 March 2025

From Monday, motorists looking to renew or take out a new motor policy must provide their driver number.

29 March 2025

Anti-coup fighters in Myanmar have declared a two-week partial ceasefire as the military begins to facilitate rescue operations and other relief work after a massive earthquake hit the war-torn country.

29 March 2025

Health service unions and the HSE have confirmed that talks are ongoing at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at averting industrial action in the health service in a dispute over staffing numbers.

29 March 2025

Mike Gaine's disappearance from his home outside Kenmare in Co Kerry more than a week ago has caused much speculation about what may have happened to the 56-year old sheep and beef cattle farmer.

29 March 2025

Last weekend in a small corner of Germany, a mix of ex-pats and curious locals came together to play some Gaelic games, Oisín Coyne reports on the growth of GAA in Germany, where teams from across Europe travelled to for a burgeoning tournament.

28 March 2025

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government's "over-arching priority" is to protect Irish jobs amid concerns US President Donald Trump's incoming tariff plans could see pharmaceutical and other firms reduce their presence in Ireland.

28 March 2025

Opposition protests calling for the release of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, arrested on alleged charges of corruption and supporting terrorism, have continued for ten days. Do the protests have the momentum to continue?

27 March 2025