OVER 100 people, including several guest speakers, attended the Abbeyleix Bog Project 25 Years On launch in the heritage town’s Manor Hotel on Thursday 24 July.

Cllr Willie Aird called the planned Greenway 'The O’Moore Way'

Fifteen energetic and enthusiastic employees from the Laois based Fingleton White engineering company recently donned gardening gloves and boots to reduce Rhododendron ponticum, an invasive plant species growing wild in Abbeyleix Bog.