The LoveLaois Podcast

Renowned business consultant Blaise Brosnan brings his Owner-Manager Development Programme to Laois this autumn and ahead of the 15-week programme, he spoke to LaoisToday about his background, some of his key pointers and what he covers on the course. This interview is part of a promotional campaign by Laois Local Enterprise Office. You can register your expression of interest here. 

David Walsh-Kemmis from the Ballykilcavan Brewery is our special guest on this week's LoveLaois Podcast.  David chats to us about his family history, his decision to diversify away from traditional farming to set up a craft brewery and his plans for the future.  He discusses some of the recent awards won by his business and how his approach now is different somewhat from when he started out a coup...

After no LoveLaois Podcast last week because of the Bank Holiday Monday, we're back with plenty to talk about. Reporter Mark Comerford makes his Podcast debut and has a fairly shocking story from The Heath while Alan has had a very busy time of it recently. He spells out the details of the recent saga in Laois County Council in relation to live streaming of public meetings - and also reports on hi...

This week's LoveLaois Podcast is a little later than usual coming to you - but our special guest this week is Philip Meagher, the well-known Portlaoise-based solicitor who is now the main man behind Laois's newest music festival, Forest Fest.  The three-day festival takes place once again this year in Emo on the weekend of July 21-23 and Philip joins us to chat about how the whole thing came about...

On this week's LoveLaois Podcast we're joined by Martin Crowley, one of the driving forces behind the Shine 2023 event which takes place in Emo Court this Saturday, May 27 . Shine is a joint venture between Emo GAA club and the Laois Chamber of Commerce and combines a trade fair featuring over 100 exhibitors alongside Ireland's Fittest Team competition, a gruelling sporting challenge that is centr...

In the latest Love Laois Podcast, Steven and Alan discuss the Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien visiting Laois this week. As well as that they chat about the controversy surrounding Matt Barrett, partner of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and his social media posts recently at the Royal coronation. There's more chat about The Ditch as well as the story of Sean Mortimer, the Camross man who is set to co...

In our latest LoveLaois Podcast, we're joined by former LaoisToday photographer Julie Anne Miller who is now living in Sydney in Australia. She chats to us about her photographic work in Sydney where she focuses on the Irish community and runs an Instagram page and website, An Astrail. Julie Anne tells us about the type of event she covers, how it differs from what she did in Ireland - and the ele...

On this week's LoveLaois Podcast, we chat about one of the big recent local stories - the decision of Cllr Aisling Moran to leave the Fine Gael party and what it might mean at next year's Local Elections.  We also discuss Sinn Fein's announcement of their new candidate Maria McCormack, who will run alongside Caroline Dwane-Stanley, in Portlaoise.  Plus we ponder the big saga at national level last...

In the latest LaoisToday #LoveLaois podcast, Steven and Alan discuss some of the big local stories of the past seven days.  They chat about council meetings, how they work, the types of motions you can see and what really drive the councillors made.  Three new roundabouts for Portlaoise, the scourge of illegal dumping and the only junction in Ireland where you give way to the traffic coming from y...

In the second episode of our new #LoveLaois Podcast we hear from newly-crowned Laois Rose Sinead Dowd.  Based in Cullohill, she tells the brilliant story of how she grew up in New York before convincing her parents to allow her move to Ireland when she was just 16 to live with her cousins.  She is now an English and Geography teacher in Scoil Chriost Ri in Portlaoise and will represent Laois in th...

This week sees the LaoisToday team introduce a new weekly #LoveLaois Podcast. The #LoveLaois Podcast is free to download on all podcast platforms and will focus on some of the week's big local stories. "With the local sports coverage well covered in our regular Talking Sport Podcasts, this production will focus on non-sport related stories," says LaoisToday owner and managing editor Steven Miller....