Encore - Thursday 15th April by Midlands 103

8 out of 10 travellers are unemployed, 8 arrests are made after the murder of an Offaly man and somebody in Westmeath has claimed their €500,000 lotto prize.

Country Life - Wednesday 14th April by Midlands 103

First the AstraZeneca vaccine now the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is linked to blood clots, the Westmeath woman who is pulling out of Glór Tíre because of social distancing and we hear stories about tenants from hell.

Listen back to Colin Donnery of FRS Recruitment on their recent acquisition of Get the Shifts, Tony Woods Managing Director of Midland Steel Reinforcement Supplies and Shane Murphy of One Stop Fulfillment.

"We are in the process of adding an automation process, the first of its type in our industry in the western world".

Tony Woods, Managing Director, of Midland Steel Reinforcement Supplies in Mountmellick as the company is recognised for its innovation capabilities by cross-border body, InterTradeIreland.

Simplifying the order delivery process and offering convenience for customers are the two pillars of Portlaoise based One Stop Fulfillment.

Founder Shane Murphy on offering order fulfilment solutions to smaller suppliers and removing Brexit related headaches for customers shipping to the EU. Established just two years ago, the company is experiencing massive growth in demand for its services.

50 sudden job losses in the medical sector, what now after the AstraZeneca vaccine is confined to over 60's and Arthur O'Meara answers all your gardening questions.

School Farm!

Have a listen to Outdoor Education in Scoil Bhride, Clonaslee, Co.Laois which has brought a whole community together.

It all began when teacher Miss Morrissey brought in goats and lambs. Things have just gone maaaa'd since then.

Most importantly the kids love it and they even have a weekend rota in place so families take it in turns to feed the animals on their mini farm.

If you're born and bred in a rural Midlands area...should you be entitled to build a house in your locality??....or is rural Ireland under threat from anyone who can afford to build a house anywhere they want?

Is the future of the Dean Maxwell nursing home in Roscrea in doubt?? There's growing concern after a letter sent by the Private Secretary to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly suggests that all people requiring long term residential care in the nursing home from Roscrea and the surrounding district of South Offaly, including Birr, will have to go to Nenagh!

And... concerns in Athlone over plans to develop fifty housing units per square hectare in the Monksland/Bealnamulla area.