The membership includes the chapels of the Leinster Express, Leinster Leader, Liffey Champion, and the Topic Group of newspapers.

Freelance members include writers, broadcasters and photographers working in the region, based broadly in the urban areas and hinterlands of Naas, Newbridge, Leixlip, Portlaoise, Tullamore and Athlone.

Certain files - 'Members', 'Applications', 'News' and 'Correspondence' - are kept in a password-protected 'Private Area' available only to those members of the branch who email us with a request for a password. Any listings and information about members is with their permission only.

Please contact us by email with news, queries, and anything else. Given the difficulties of getting people together for meetings, this site will be the focus for all information coming from members, chapels, branch and NUJ head office.

MARTIN O'HAGAN, RIP Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan was shot dead in the North on Friday night, 28 September 2001, close to his home in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Mr O'Hagan, in his 50s, had been a journalist with the Sunday World in the North for more than 10 years. He is the first journalist murdered by Northern paramilitaries in more than three decades of the Troubles. To his wife Marie and his children, the branch expresses its deep sympathy.