Tag: Laois County Council

Laois County Council has become the eleventh electoral authority to call on the Office of Public Works to exhume the bodies of five men...

More than three years after being closed, the refurbished public toilets in the heart of Portlaoise are set to open this week. The toilets have...

Laois County Councillors have called on the Minister for Housing, Darragh O'Brien, to abolish Strategic Housing Developments (SHD) immediately. Normally applications for planning permission first...

Laois County Councillor John Joe Fennelly has called on Transport Infrastructure Ireland to erect a fence on the Abbeyleix/Durrow road following a number of...

A Laois County Councillor has said he is being 'scalded' on the phone on a daily basis over the installation of new LED lights...

Laois County Councillors have approved the signing of a 'Cultural Accord' between an historic Australian site and a Laois house. The Eureka Centre in Victoria,...

A Laois soccer club and a special needs school are to benefit from the leasing of lands owned by Laois County Council to them. For...

Laois County Council has approved the sale of 1.56 hectares of land to a company who are planning an expansion. AuBren have purchased the site...

Youth Work Ireland Laois has received €38,000 through the LGBTI+ Communities Integration Fund. A total of €700,000 has been distributed to 29 projects through Ireland...

Laois County Council have said that they are taking the final steps in the process of taking the Gracefield Manor estate in Ballylinan in...

"I know of one elderly man living alone in a council house who could not sleep for two weeks because the battery in his...

The community of Laois has come together to support LGBTI+ awareness week from November 16-20 which will culminate in the raising of the LGBTI+...

The Department of Education to provide grants for every primary and post-primary school in Laois this year. In the case of primary schools, the minimum...

The Laois County Council budget for 2021 will be €78,883,000 - an increase of €500,001 from 2020. The increase in spending was accepted by Councillors...

Local residents in The Swan and anyone who has ever travelled through the Laois village will know that it's a prime location for speeding...

Life assurance or insurance companies must not be allowed to increase premiums or introduce penalties on policies of people who undergo a Covid-19 test. So...

Gardai and Laois County Council have dismantled a stockpile of material that appeared to be set up to become a bonfire. The duo teamed up...

Anyone who has travelled to Europe or further afield is likely to have used an Uber to get from one destination to another. Essentially, Uber...

There is a big need for a skate park in the town of Portarlington, according to local councillor Aidan Mullins. Cllr Mullins made the suggestion...

There are some people that go over and above for their community and the late Niall McElwaine in Portarlington was one such man. The Donegal...

"It's like you went into your kitchen and took the light out of the ceiling and replaced it with a lamp - that's how...

"People that have contacted me are depressed. Some say they have never been as lonely as they are now - never felt as isolated. "Some...

Laois County Councillor John King has called for immediate action to be taken on 'two horrible derelict properties' which he says are a serious...

With the Coronavirus set to be with us for the foreseeable future - the amount of people who will choose to spend their holidays...

A dispute between dentists and the Department of Health has left children in Laois caught in the middle. Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council, Catherine Fitzgerald,...

Some Laois people are being forced to stay in hospital for weeks longer than necessary due to a home care system that is not...

The Graigavern Lodge housing estate in Ballybrittas has been taken in charge by Laois County Council - more than a decade after it was...

A brand new playground is on its way to a Laois village - after a plan to construct it was given the green light...

Laois County Council are hopeful that Portlaoise Leisure Centre will re-open in January 2021. Director of Services Donal Brennan revealed the news at this morning’s...

Laois County Council should put in a compulsory purchase order on a vacant site at the front of the Maryborough Estate on the Mountrath...