A 24-YEAR-old woman who stole charity boxes twice from the same Carlow shop during a month-long spree of thefts across the town has been jailed for ten months.

P.L. Curran was the team manger of the Irish Olympic team in 1984 but that was only one aspect of a remarkable life 

“I THINK there’s creative potential for a country town to go weird and be surreal and be darker,” says Carlow writer Katie Curran as she discusses her unsettling, yet brilliantly amusing, short story Cowboy.

Max the Pomsky from Carlow attended the Petmania Ruby Heart Awards ceremony in Sullivan’s Taproom, Kilkenny on Monday 15 June where he finished up as runner-up in the Petfluencer category.

A scrambler or dirt bike worth several thousand euro was stolen from a shed at a property in Leighlinbridge in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.

A new search operation got under way today, 15 June 2026, on open ground near the Wicklow/Kildare border as part of the ongoing investigations into the disappearance and murders of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob.

A 50-YEAR-old man has been given a 21-month prison sentence for possessing €5,600 worth of drugs and a stolen bike and chainsaw when he appeared before Judge Eugene O’Kelly at a recent sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

"An event just escalated beyond what he thought it would be"

A CARLOW man of no fixed address was given probation in place of a two-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to shoplifting from Aldi in Graiguecullen.Prosecuting Sgt McPartlin told the court that on 31 July 2025 at 2.30pm, Dominic Mulhall ...

‘Food safety management systems are not optional’ – Greg Dempsey, Food Safety Authority Ireland

SIXTY years after they said ‘I do,’ Tommy and Mary Lawlor of Bagenalstown marked their diamond wedding anniversary surrounded by family at the Sacred Heart nursing home on Sunday 31 May.

A PUBLIC meeting has been organised in support of the 87 workers in Carlow College who were recently told they are to be made redundant.

A CARLOW man found sheltering €21,097 worth of cannabis in his shed was given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Eugene O’Kelly at a sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

A 26-YEAR-old man who stood on his former partner’s car causing thousands of euros worth of damage received a three-year suspended sentence from Judge Eugene O’Kelly at a recent sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

“A TRUE gentleman,” a man with “quiet, consistent excellence” and someone to have “on speed dial for local history” were just some of the words used to describe Dermot Mulligan, who was the curator of Carlow County Museum, at his funeral last week.

RENOWENED Carlow piano business Holland Pianos will feature in RTÉ’s new six-part series titled Museum of Me on Sunday.

RESIDENTS living on Carlow’s Kilkenny Road, where a new pedestrian and cycle scheme is taking shape, have complained of health and safety risks, while Carlow Co Council said the reallocation of space to cyclists has ‘proven to be contentious and ...

Minister Lawless said that, without intervention, the college faced a ‘disorderly collapse’

A GRAIGUECULLEN man who pleaded guilty to the possession of two bottles containing bleach, which he claimed he was carrying to protect his sister and her child, has had his case adjourned to allow a probation report to be prepared.

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