Gardaí are seeking assistance in locating Robert Tynan who is missing from Co Laois.

As a child summertime – from the age of six until I left school – was about picking potatoes down in Cobh.

It was a plan hatched in the depths of grief, but there were scenes of joy yesterday when farmer John Dolan finally laid eyes on his record-breaking hen that has who’s been stuffed for posterity.

July is the most dangerous month of the year for farm fatalities, which are continuing to rise overall, according to Teagasc.

More than 300 people attended two Teagasc organised conifer timber marketing events in Charleville, Co Cork, and Abbeyleix, Co Laois, in recent weeks.

GROWING up in Currabinny, each neighbour seemed to have a thing that they made or grew which they shared with everyone else. This community spirit of sharing the ingredients to make good food but also the food itself would eventually inspire us to sell at markets, do food demos and write a cookbook.

An Irishman who was instrumental in bringing Hollywood actor George Clooney to Ireland for the first time claims his business has been the target of hackers since the actor’s visit.

A horse rider who sued a hunt club after she suffered a back injury when she jumped an obstacle while on a fox hunt and her horse rolled on top of her has lost her High Court action.

Hollywood actor George Clooney has revealed he and his wife, Amal, spent Easter Sunday with U2’s frontman Bono at his home in Dublin.

Hollywood actor George Clooney plans to return to Ireland next year following a brief visit to meet his cousins over the Easter break.

Hollywood A-lister George Clooney along with his wife Amal and two children spent several days of Easter in Laois getting to know his Irish cousins.

It can be hard to swallow when you have Parkinson’s disease, writes Paula Gilmore.

We were on our way to Ennistymon to eat at Little Fox, a newly opened, super cool café on a corner of Main Street.

Two men have been arrested after a drugs seizure in Laois.

A man is being treated in hospital after an armed robbery and hiijacking at a petrol station in Co Laois overnight.

It’s another chapter in the success story of Chapter One, with the fine dining Dublin venue voted the best restaurant in Ireland for the ninth time by the Restaurant Association of Ireland.

Gardaí in Co Laois have seized a quantity of cocaine with an estimated street value of up to €35,000.

A 38-year-old pedestrian has died following a crash in County Laois.

Love in a hopeless place!

The use of local “spotters” is widespread among criminal gangs targeting farmyards for valuable equipment and machinery, a specialist detective has said.

There were double celebrations for one midlands family when Alan Hand and his daughter Siobhán got their exam results.

With three children on the autistic spectrum, Mary and Michael Dunne would rather not have to spend so much time and energy battling officialdom, writes Noel Baker

Motorsport Ireland chief executive Alex Sinclair is confident that a ruling from the European Court of Justice - which has the potential to have detrimental effects for motorsport across the EU - will be amended.

International drinks group Quintessential Brands is set to follow up its newly announced purchase of the Dublin Whiskey Company with a further acquisition in the coming weeks.

A passion for motorsport engendered by rally icon Billy Coleman has inspired Cork native John Campion to assist a group of young talented drivers.

Christy Walsh has always known the spice of contrast, different strokes for different places.

On day three of our special report on rural Ireland, Michael Clifford visits Borris-in-Ossory.

The death of young people “robs us of all of our tomorrows”, a parish priest said yesterday.

A Co Laois community is grief-stricken after three friends from the locality died in a horror crash over the weekend.

The community of Rathdowney, Co. Laois, is said to be in shock today after a crash claimed the lives of three people in the early hours of this morning.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood/... I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference.

Donagh Kelly - the dominant driver in the Triton Showers National Rally Championship - will again be the one to beat in Sunday’s fourth round Circuit of Munster Rally.