How do you train for Ireland's Fittest Family when you have no idea what events you will face? What is coercive control? We hear why a man convicted of it was jailed for 10 years and why sitting up straight might not be the perfect pain free posture.

The Chairman of Offaly County Council demands answers from the HSE about whether people from outside a nursing home jumped the vaccination queue ahead of staff, meet the young woman preparing for 5 Olympic sports and hear the story of a former Roscrea man who watched over a former President on Capitol Hill yesterday.

Country Life - Wednesday 20th January by Midlands 103

Paddy Buggy of Webmill Digital Hub in Mountmellick discusses the remote working strategy announced by An Tanaiste Leo Varadkar last week.

CEO of American Chamber of Commerce Ireland Mark Redmond on the importance of American investment in Ireland on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration.

People First Credit Union's Head of Lending Jane Watts outlines the Covid-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme now being provided to local SME's and John Madigan of Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland discusses the finer details of the government backed scheme.

And two Laois Breweries now have their products on shelves in Lidl stores across the country.

CEO of American Chamber of Commerce Ireland Mark Redmond on the importance of American investment into Ireland on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration. Ireland withstood the worst effects of the pandemic in terms of FDI last year and also, Ireland is now the ninth largest investor into the United States.

Why would doctors be paid €120 an hour to administer vaccines while paramedics sit on the side lines? Special schools won't reopen tomorrow as planned and why a concussion has persuaded a Mullingar man to give up drink for all of 2021.

With no less than 7 feuds involving 14 families in one Midlands County find out what the Gardaí are doing about it, a local man strayed quiet a bit from his 5 kilometers and gets a fine and if you think you are too old and too sore to run a Mullingar man might persuade you to reconsider.

Meet the Midland Consultant who will come out of retirement for the Covid vaccine program, we profile the Diplomat with strong Athlone connections who takes a big job from Joe Biden this week and now that Bord na Mona peat production is officially over we ask what happens next?

A Westmeath father Aidan O'Rourke talks about the birth of his daughter Alison with Down Syndorme and how it completely tranformed his world.

Artist Shane Gillen draws historian Catherine Corless in response to this week's Mother and Baby home report.