The Athy Darkness Into Light Committee have said they are “incredibly grateful” for the fantastic support shown during this year's Athy Darkness Into Light walk. A fantastic €11,404. 83 was raised by the community for a very worthy cause.

June was the most successful month to date for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) at ALDI, as shoppers across Ireland collectively returned 16. 7 million items.

A VERY well attended selection convention in the Clanard Court Hotel in Athy on Friday night (12 July) saw Senator Mark Wall nominated to contest the forthcoming general election in Kildare South for the Labour Party.

The pair has received lots of well wishes on social media

BRICKMAKING in Ireland written by Susan Roundtree and published recently by Wordwell, is a comprehensive record of where clay bricks were made in Ireland and how this locally made indigenous material shaped the character of Irish buildings for more ...

It will be operable by means of a smart card

THE proposed new 92-bed hospital at St Vincent’s in Athy will benefit not just the people of the town but south Kildare and the surrounding districts. That’s according to Senator Mark Wall, who raised the project recently in the Seanad.

A HIGHLY popular restaurant in Athy has announced that it is expanding to Newbridge.

Kildare Co Council has said it is aware of a fault with a parking meter at Meeting Lane in Athy and this is being addressed by their contractor.

It's the first of its kind

They were left after the election posters were removed

There are plenty of community groups in Athy offering activities over the summer

The women were the first sixth years that moved into the new build that would become Ardscoil Na Tríonóide

A small group of people patiently awaited the arrival of the cabin in which the famous Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died

Athy’s Aontas Ógra Youth Club took advantage of the fine June weather to take a trip down to the Beyond the Trees treetop walk at Avondale in Co Wicklow.

There was a distinct sense of a milestone being reached when an important historical artefact arrived in Athy this morning.

The pizza was made by local man David Walsh and 40 people signed up to play

A motorcyclist, aged in his 20s, is in critical condition following a collision with a car in Co Kildare on Friday evening