Diversifying to cheese production has proved a great success for a Co Offally farmer, writes Trish Dromey

Gentleman Duke, trained for JP McManus by Arthur Moore, landed the inaugural running of the John Mulhern Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Ballinrobe’s final meeting of 2014.

Counselling is being provided to students at a rural Co Offaly school after an 11-year-old pupil died yesterday morning in a road accident.

Organic yoghurt maker Glenisk, led by RTÉ ‘Secret Millionaire’ Vincent Cleary, last year recorded more than a four-fold increase in pre-tax profits to €700,337.

Organic yoghurt maker Glenisk, led by Vincent Cleary, one of the stars of RTÉ’s The Secret Millionaire, is on track to expand the size of its business by almost 30% this year.

Food trade events are the surest route to developing new export markets, says Helen Cahill, director of Cahill’s Farm Cheese — newly returned from successful food fairs in the US and UK.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has defended the value of the deal to dispose the controversial electronic voting machines.

Revenues at Irish organic yoghurt producer Glenisk last year increased by 27% to €14m as the business recorded an increase in pre-tax profit.

TULLAMORE Dew Whiskey could be returning home after over half a century, as William Grant & Sons explore the possibility of building a new distillery in the town.

A secondary school teacher from Co Offaly has been ordered to pay the legal costs of her failed High Court action in which she alleged she was bullied and sexually harassed by a male colleague.

A secondary teacher from Co Offaly has lost a High Court action in which she alleged she was bullied and sexually harassed by a male colleague.

The High Court has ordered a farmer from Co Offaly to pay €350,000 to his niece for brutally raping her and sexually assaulting her over 13 years.

FARMERS can expect a return of €160 per hectare per annum in contracts offered by Bord na Mona for supply of willow chips to its Edenderry, Co Offaly, power station.

THE High Court has adjourned to later this month a Co Offaly businessman’s application to avoid returning to prison forbeing in contempt of court for failing to secure the return of leased machinery worth €2 million.

A Co Offaly businessman jailed for almost two weeks for contempt of court over failure to secure the return of leased machinery worth €2m has been temporarily freed by a High Court judge until later this week.

The High Court has ruled that a Co Offaly businessman must remain in prison over the weekend before he can make an application to purge his contempt for failing to comply with orders to hand over possession of machinery he had leased.

THE Coolea Farmhouse Cheese company in the Muscrai Gaeltacht in west Cork won two top awards at the British Cheese Awards last weekend.

The High Court is demanding an explanation as to why a Co Offaly businessman has not been jailed for breaching a court order.

A secondary school teacher has claimed before the High Court that she was bullied and sexually harassed by a male colleague.

LAST year’s Common Agricultural Policy payments were sweet for the EU’s big sugar companies.

AVERAGE treatment waiting times for public patients have fallen to their lowest level ever at just two-and-a-half months.

FARMERS live in fear of failing their milk test, and being forced to cease production, if they speak out about the crisis in the industry, according to the Dairy Farmers Crisis Group.

SCHOOLS in Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s home county which have been waiting from eight to 12 years for building works to begin are proof of a need to overhaul the bureaucratic process, a teachers’ union has claimed.

A Co Offaly concrete company has announced plans to lay off half of its workforce before the end of this year.

A Co Offaly priest has reportedly upset parishioners by disparaging children sent to the notorious Daingean reformatory.

The Catholic Church and Irish Government covered up decades of brutal sexual abuse and beatings by priests and nuns on thousands of children in state care, one of the most damning reports on clerical abuse revealed today.

The Taoiseach says it was not the Government's intention to mislead people when announcing the scrapping of long-service payments for TDs and Senators.

The Co Offaly publican found dead following a suspected robbery at his premises in Daingean last week has been laid to rest.

IT is important in today’s environment to encourage and recognise people who are providing leadership in their own communities, Macra na Feirme president Catherine Buckley has stressed.

A FIANNA Fáil councillor and his wife have been ordered by a High Court judge to repay commercial loans totalling €2.6 million to Bank of Ireland.

Thirty jobs are to be lost in Co Offaly, following the news this afternoon that Grant Engineering in Birr is letting go workers with immediate effect.

The public is to be quizzed about their attitudes to tax and what compels them to pay up as part of a nationwide government survey.

IT was a midsummer feast of country life in which Bruce Springsteen, a sheep shearer, a wool spinner and even Arnie the Pig played various roles.

FOOD sourced locally proved a successful recipe for a trio of Macroom students in a national healthy eating competition.

A Co Offaly farmer has been given a 30-month sentence by Mr Justice Peter Charleton at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting his niece over a decade ago.

A Co Offaly farmer faces jail after being convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on nine charges of sexually assaulting his now 29-year-old niece more than a decade ago.

A Co Offaly farmer faces jail after being convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on nine charges of sexually assaulting his now 29-year-old niece more than a decade ago.

A Co Offaly woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she willingly had sex with her uncle when she was 17 years old.

DISGRUNTLED fans of Liverpool who paid top rates to get to the Champions League final in Athens will be able to get a refund from their travel agent if they missed the game, industry bosses said last night.

THE High School, Rathgar, Dublin, were the top team in the TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz held at The Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co Offaly.

DARREN SUTHERLAND packed eight months of frustration into five minutes of boxing last night before he stopped Eddie Healy (Portlaoise) midway through the third round of the middleweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

THE all-singing, all-dancing, fun loving members of the Abbeyknockmoy, Co Galway and Kilcloon, Co Meath clubs came out on top in the National Talent Competition in the Helix Theatre in Dublin last weekend.