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Outgoing Leinster Leader managing editor Laura Coates, third from left, pictured in 2018 outside the old Leader offices on South Main Street Naas

After five years as editor of Kildare's Leinster Leader, farewell and thanks for...
As she steps down as editor of the Leinster Leader this week, Laura Coates looks back on an eventful decade and a half in Kildare journalism
Laura Coates

PICTURES: Were you spotted at the June Fest Yarn Bomb in Newbridge, Co Kildare?

Mickser Mahon and his friend Jackie Sheridan, pictured after they signed up in 1941

Book review: The Kildare man who almost caught General Rommel during World War I...

Max Lally scored a victory in Abu Dhabi this morning

Fighter representing Kildare gym wins on Day 1 of MMA World Championships in Abu...

BREAKING: Man arrested in connection with killing of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore...

Sean O'Mahony is an Operation Transformation online leader

Kildare garda Sean O'Mahony leads the nation to health as Operation Transformati...

Author Pauline Clooney's new book Charlotte and Arthur is out now

Brontë honeymoon in Banagher inspires Newbridge writer Pauline Clooney’s new boo...

Eamon Dunne and Brian Morrissey at Monasterevin Fire Station

Life as a Kildare firefighter - could you join these local frontline heroes?

The Primark Edit beige cashmere blend jumper, €22

'Posh Penneys' range coming to Newbridge as 'The Primark Edit' lands in Kildare ...

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Ballymore Eustace water plant failure 'potentially put public health at risk' in...

Dara Ward of SBG Portarlington will compete at the MMA World Cup in Prague. Picture: Sharon Coyne/Lenohephotography

Young Portarlington MMA star Dara Ward to represent Ireland at World Cup in Prag...

Colm and Gillian will take on their skydive tomorrow morning

Kildare uncle and niece raise €40,000 for hospice skydive
Gillian Daly and Colm Carey will make the big leap at Clonbullogue this Saturday
Laura Coates

The drugs seized in Emo

€2.1 million of cannabis found in vegetable delivery in Emo, on Kildare-Laois bo...

Girls enjoying a Leinster Rugby Girls Give it a try session at Naas RFC in Naas last November. PICTURE: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Women’s and girls’ rugby is growing from the ground up

Max Lally, left, beat Irish team-mate Jordan Scully in the World Championships final on Sunday

Gold medal for SBG Naas teen at youth MMA World Championships

Brandon Blake, Alex Keogh, coach Sergey Pikulskiy and Max Lally pictured at SBG Naas

Three teens from Naas gym to represent Ireland at youth MMA world championships

Conor McGregor will cover the costs for the Irish youth team at the world MMA championships

Conor McGregor pays for Kildare and midlands teens to travel to world MMA champi...

Portarlington MMA teen to represent Ireland at World Championships this summer

Garvan de Bruir and Dermot Bannon in front of the Aviator Haus

Kildare town's Aviator Haus features on Dermot Bannon’s Super Small Spaces

FIRST LOOK: Inside Kildare's new multi-million Irish Racehorse Experience attrac...

The late Tom Hickey, pictured at a 2012 Naas Art Group event. Picture: Tony Keane

President Higgins pays tribute on death of Naas actor Tom Hickey

Matiss Zaharovs training at SBG Portarlington. Picture: Sharon Coyne/Lenohe Photography

Kildare MMA prospect Matiss Zaharovs promises exciting display in Brave CF fight...

Laura Maher

Laura Maher, president of Network Kildare, reflects on a year at work like no ot...
Challenges facing women in the workplace
Laura Coates

Dave Kelly and his wife Olive, pictured on his recent discharge from St James's Hospital in Dublin

Light at the end of the tunnel: Naas man’s story of beating Covid-19

Newbridge writer Barry J Whyte

Wild Celtic Tiger tale brought to life in Newbridge man’s new book

Historic Umeras bog in Kildare will get new lease of life with Peatlands Park gr...

The new Irish ambassador to Ethiopia, Nicola Brennan from Newbridge

Newbridge woman Nicola Brennan appointed as new Irish ambassador to Ethiopia

Aishling Conway with husband Shane and baby Ella-May

"I'm one of the lucky ones," says Naas photographer born in Bessborough

Stephen O’Neill (Incoming president Maynooth/Kilcock Lions Club), Peter O’Sullivan (project coordinator), Arthur O'Hara and Liz Heffernan, and Ann Johnson, Daybreak, Coill Dubh. Pic: A Conway

Lifesaving Lions install defibrillators across 10 Kildare towns

Sonya Carey and her late mother Christina Lally

Kill woman raises €2,000 for hospice in memory of late mother

Kildare boxer Eric Donovan is new Bearingpoint ambassador

Kildare boxer Eric Donovan is new health and wellbeing ambassador for BearingPoi...

Yoga teacher and author Sarah Cahill from Newbridge

Newbridge yoga teacher's new adventure story book helps children with anxiety an...

Kildare County Council headquarters at Aras Chill Dara

Hold ups at Sex’s Bridge causing frustration in Newbridge

Members of Newbridge Youth Club pictured in the late 1990s. The organisation fizzled out soon afterwards due to a lack of a premises and support. Picture: Noel Heavey

€100,000 from Local Property Tax for Newbridge youth project

Maynooth University graduates' personal data may have been stolen in cybercrimin...

Hazel Gaynor

Kildare author Hazel Gaynor's new WWII novel The Bird in the Bamboo Cage a story...

The Naas Men's Shed group with Nicola Smyth of Life CU in front of their new lean-to

Naas Men’s Shed back in business with Covid-19 lean-to

The Brown Booby pictured in Greystones yesterday before it was taken into care by the National Wildlife Service. Picture: Andres Poveda

Brown Booby now in intensive care at Kildare Animal Foundation

The new Kildare Newbridge MD deputy mayor Noel Heavey and mayor Kevin Duffy

Kevin Duffy, Fine Gael, elected new mayor of council's Kildare Newbridge Munici...

Cllr Suzanne Doyle

Kildare County Council spent almost €10,000 on housing clean-ups

Call for bus shelter at Brownstown Cross on the Curragh

Cllr Noel Heavey

Support for Newbridge-Athgarvan walkway at council meeting

Richie Whelan of Whelan's Shoes, Naas, with Bernadette Corrigan, assistant director of nursing at Tallaght University Hospital

Nurse thanks Whelan’s Shoes in Naas for their Covid-19 crisis kindness

A concept plan of what the park at Umeras bog could look like

Plans underway for new tourist peatland park between Monasterevin and Rathangan

Newbridge. File photo

Plan for 45 minutes free parking in Newbridge debated by county councillors

Newbridge men’s folk radio show marks 21 years on the airwaves

Picture: File photograph via Pixabay

Kildare County Council meeting rejects proposal to fund second Newbridge playgro...

Romario Halaoui speaking at the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Newbridge on Saturday, June 13

WATCH: Crowds turn out for Black Lives Matter demonstration in Newbridge on Satu...

Darren Donohoe

Newbridge man wins top literary bursary

Man dies in suspected workplace accident in Kildare town

Triona Pender from Castledermot delivering an online seminar to ActionAid Bangladesh from home during the lockdown. Picture: Kathleen Pender

Covid-19 crisis means young girls are married off early, says Kildare aid worker

New book: Life of Irish Ropes founder who put Newbridge on the global map

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