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GUIDE: All you need to know about this year's Slieve Bloom Walking Festival

With just summer around the corner, so is this year's Slieve Bloom Walking Festival. This year marks the festival's 29th year in operation, with walks of varying difficulties to take place this weekend. The good weather this weekend is expected to ...

30 Apr 2025 at 07:33

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Search for mudered Offaly woman concludes in Laois

Gardaí say a search for missing Offaly woman Fiona Pender on open ground in Laois has now ended. It was the second search in recent days and follows the conclusion of a dig on land at Graigue, Killeigh, Co Offaly on Tuesday evening. The latest ...

29 May 2025 at 17:33

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PICTURES: See inside new community café coming to rural Laois village

Excitement is growing in the rural Laois village of Camross for a new community café that will offer long opening hours, and sell basic groceries too. Camross at the foothills of the Slieve Bloom Mountains got a huge grant of of over €250,000 ...

14 Jun 2025 at 13:33

Local News

Gardaí and rescuers rush to Laois mountain as two people go missing

Gardaí and Civil Defence volunteers successfully located and helped two walkers who got lost in the Slieve Bloom Mountains yesterday evening. A total of 15 personnel made up of gardaí and rescuers from Laois and Offaly Civil Defence ...

03 Nov 2024 at 10:33

National News

Gardaí and rescuers rush to Irish mountain as two people go missing

03 Nov 2024 at 10:30

Local News

Gardaí and rescuers rush to Offaly mountain as two people go missing

03 Nov 2024 at 11:33

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New signage to mark location of 'lost village' in Slieve Blooms abandoned in 1960's

A Councillor has called for the erection of signage at Cones Village in Capard, to highlight the location of a 'lost village' in the Slieve Blooms Cones Village, often referred to as 'the Lost Village', is an ...

23 Oct 2025 at 08:33

Local News

New signage to mark location of Laois' 'lost village' abandoned in 1960's

A Laois County Councillor has called for the erection of signage at Cones Village in Capard, to highlight the location of Laois' 'lost village'. Cones Village, often referred to as 'the Lost Village', is an ...

22 Oct 2025 at 12:33

Your Community

€152,000 for new Laois signs directing tourists to Slieve Bloom Mountains

Laois has been awarded the final wave of cash needed to upgrade direction signs and information boards to guide visitors to the Slieve Bloom Mountains. The Outdoor Recreation Fund granted €16.5m across ...

03 Nov 2025 at 21:33

Property

Plan for huge Laois quarry in scenic Slieve Bloom stalls

Plans to extract 800,000 tonnes of sand and gravel in the Slieve Bloom Mountains have stalled due by locals living very close to the site in Laois. Anne and Michael Carroll have appealed Laois County ...

22 Dec 2025 at 12:33

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