CARLOW town is busy putting up bunting and decorating for the Pan Celtic International Festival 2026. “It’s an exciting time,” said organiser Bríde de Róiste. “It’s a festival for everybody; it's a festival for the whole town.

A MAN pleaded guilty to speaking inappropriately to a 14-year-old girl in the foyer of Carlow Garda Station in the early hours of the morning in a case heard in camera before Carlow District Court.

A WOMAN was convicted of speeding at Carlow District Court after a judge ruled that she had failed in her legal obligation to nominate an alternative driver within the prescribed time period, despite her mother taking to the witness stand to insist ...

Lemongrass restaurant too announced that it will reopen under new ownership shortly.

A wonderful day was had by all! 

WHAT could have been a choir of pinstriped, bowler-hatted golfers has blossomed into an ABBA and craic-loving group of singers over 20 years of musical direction from opera singer Gina Hanley.

A LEADING UK insurance company has announced Carlow as the destination of its EU base, with over 22 jobs being created at South East Technological University’s new corporate services building.

A THREE-hour drunken nap at a Killeshin service station resulted in a drink-driving conviction and two-year driving suspension for a County Carlow man.

The garda's explanation of the video could not be used to convict him.

He said he abandoned his dad's van because he "knew he would go mad". 

40% of the sales in this quarter have been from landlords leaving the market

SADS takes the lives of 100 young people in Ireland every year

A RATHVILLY man was handed a custodial sentence and disqualified from driving for eight years after pleading guilty to driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and without road tax at Carlow District Court.

THE announcement that rules for building one-off homes in rural areas in Carlow are to be relaxed, on the one hand is “quite a welcome step” said Fianna Fáil cllr Daniel Pender, but on the other “we’re yet to see any proper detail on it”.

“I’M very blessed that I have my kids here with me today. It’s very emotional – no parent should have to go through this,” said Rathvilly woman Regina Smith yesterday (Monday) after two of her children fell from a second-storey balcony on Friday.

Further legislation is being drafted to curtail the sale of disposable vapes. 

THE PRICE of petrol is likely to top €3 a litre, according to a local petrol station owner.

Kids immediately clambered on the wooden structures. 

Born in March 1931 in Coolcarrigan Co Kildare, the twin brothers went to primary school in Timahoe, where their mother Ann was a teacher and their father Peter ran a grocery shop, before attending St Mary’s Knockbeg College in Carlow.

RESIDENTS and businesses around Tinryland could see improved mobile and wireless broadband coverage under Three Ireland if planning permission is granted for a new 30-metre telecommunications mast on farmland at Rathcrogue.