St. Colmcille's Pipe Band, Tullamore makes a welcome return to county final action today after a 15-year absence.

Offaly Senior Football Championship final programme article - October 11, 2009‏

The band reformed last year having slipped out of existence in the late 1990s, a few years after their last county final appearance in 1994. We didn't know it at the time, but on that day Ferbane were rounding off the most glorious era in the club's history as they claimed the Offaly Senior Football Championship title for the seventh time in nine years courtesy of a win over Shannonbridge. Read more

St. Colmcille's Pipe Band, Tullamore presented with cheque towards Uniform Fund
Liz Martin article - local papers February 17, 2010‏

St. Colmcille's Pipe Band, Tullamore were presented with a cheque towards their uniform fund by Mrs Liz Martin of Pearse Park last week.
Mrs Martin, whose late husband Eddie and his brother Pa were long serving members of the band, recently celebrated her 90th birthday in Hugh Lynch's Bar and insisted that she receive no presents with donations to be made to the band instead. Read more
 

St. Colmcille's Pipe Band, Tullamore has reformed and will be back on the streets of the town for Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann next week.

The band has been busily practising over the past six weeks and progress has been smooth while numbers have increased steadily. Formed way back in 1911, the band is the third oldest in Ireland but fell on hard times in the mid-1990s and slowly slipped out of existence. Read more