Tag: Pippa Hackett

Sport Ireland has granted €296.721 to Laois Sports Partnership to assist them in their ongoing work in developing sports throughout the county. Funding of €9.5...

12 Laois projects will share in €72,000 in funding from the Built Heritage Investment Scheme. These are from 477 heritage projects across every county in...

Better cycle facilities, improved public transport, a community centre and a town architect were among the suggestions for improving Portlaoise town centre at an...

There has been a warm welcome from local politicians following the announcement of funding of €270,000 for the Slieve Bloom Outdoor Recreation Infrastucture scheme. "This...

A meeting on the future of Portlaoise Town Centre will be held by the Green Party next week. Senator Pippa Hackett, who hails from Geashill...

Laois has been allocated €1,263,744 in housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability. The work covers carrying out adaptations to houses,...

Two Laois groups are to receive more than €14,000 in money through the Funding for Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme. The Abbeyleix Bog Project has been...

More than €550,000 has been allocated to Laois County Council under the government's Retrofitting Programme for Social Housing. This programme will see improvement works carried...

A new speed limit, increased pedestrian crossings and new cycles lanes are some of a proposal to improve infrastructure in a Laois town. The plan...

€447,801 of funding has been granted by the government to the Laois Offaly Education and Training Board for community education. This was part of a...

71 previously vacant houses were fully refurbished in Laois in 2020, latest figures show. €675,592 was spent in the county by the Department for Housing,...

The government have announced that the fifth year of the Sheep Welfare Scheme will commence at the start of next month. Existing participants of the...

Government grants worth €14 million for projects delivering best practice in the design, construction and management of energy-efficient buildings are now available for businesses. Successful...

Between September and December of last year, Laois farmers received over €47 million in payments via different schemes run by the Department of Agriculture. From...

Individuals, farmers, businesses and community groups will be able to sell renewable electricity into the grid under a scheme being developed by the government. A...

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, has confirmed four retrofitting centres of excellence are to open within the...

Happy New Year! We are beginning 2021 with a sense of hope. Vaccines have been found for the Coronavirus, so emerging from this crisis now...

Communities in Laois are being urged to apply for a share of a new €28 million fund for community energy projects across Ireland which...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has announced record funding awards of €3.2 million to 101 animal welfare organisations throughout...

Youth, Heritage and Homelessness organisations in Laois are to receive additional money from the Covid Stability fund. The Minister of State with responsibility for Community...

€156,000 in summer improvement works will be carried out on five Laois schools. Minister for State Pippa Hackett confirmed the allocation earlier this week. Roof works...

28 Laois farmers will share a pot of €176,037 under Organic Farming Scheme payments. Minister of State in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...

The government has confirmed it has allocated €108m for Bord na Móna’s large-scale peatlands restoration project. The Carbon Store and Capture Plan will protect the...

Communities in bog-rich areas, such as Offaly and Laois, have an extended opportunity to avail of the Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme. A fund of €200,000...

Though it's not unprecedented it is unusual for a Senator to be appointed to a ministerial role. When Pippa Hackett was appointed as a 'Super...

When Pippa Hackett was growing up in rural Mayo, there was no way she'd have predicted that one day she'd be a General Election...

There has rarely been a political career that has been so meteoric. A couple of years ago, Pippa Hackett wasn't even a member of a...

A total of 588 Laois farmers have benefitted from the early release of Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS) payments. They have now received €2,100,751.85 between...

Three Laois projects have qualified for CLAR funding totalling €116,440. A recreation area on the grassy bank of the Grand Canal at Vicarstown is to...

The controversial Mother & Baby Homes Bill was passed in the Dail last night. This concerns the records of mothers and babies put into institutions...