The Offaly Independent reports that a massive caravan of Offaly folk will descend on the Dail today to celebrate the election of Brian Cowen to the post of Taoiseach (at around 3.30pm - live on Oireachtas.ie)

“There`ll be a festive atmosphere,” Tom O`Donovan of O`Donovan Cowen Solicitors, a firm in which Minister Cowen is involved, said. The solicitors firm is planning to close it`s doors on Wednesday with most of the staff travelling to Dublin to join in the celebrations.
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The Offaly contingent have even arranged a designated meeting point in the city which they are keeping tight lipped on for now.

More celebrations will take place over the weekend as the All-Ireland Champion new Taoiseach takes a tour of his home county and, of course, Clara

Gardai and the Civil Defence are preparing for a continuation of celebrations on Saturday and Sunday when the triumphant Taoiseach arrives home.

Visiting first Edenderry at 12 noon before leaving for O`Connor Square in Tullamore at 1.30pm where up to 10,000 people are expected to greet him, Brian Cowen will attend a Civic Reception in Aras an Chontae at 3pm before returning to his home town of Clara.

In Clara, the Civil Defence will be assisting with medical points set up around the town. Some Tullamore publicans are even putting on coaches to ferry people to Clara and back.

The tour of the county will not end in Clara however as Brian Cowen will visit Ferbane at 2.30pm and Birr at 4pm on Sunday, May 11.