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Anger as elderly person forced to wait hours for ambulance to...

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley says the fact that an elderly person had to wait two hours for an ambulance to arrive in Clonaslee...

Certainty on Portlaoise Hospital is ‘sugar-coated promises’ says Laois TD Stanley

Laois Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has said that claims that the future of services at Portlaoise Hospital are secure due to the Slaintecare...

Abbeyleix Hospital: No funding, no progress, and now further delays says...

Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley has spoken out over the lack of attention and the neglect of the Abbeyleix hospital. Deputy Stanley said: “Eight years...

‘Sinn Féin’s Alternative Budget offers clear, solutions to the rip-off costs...

Laois-Offaly Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has said his party’s Alternative Budget 2020 is aimed at ending the rip-off and giving families and workers...

Talks between key beef stakeholders should reconvene as ‘matter of urgency’...

Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for Agriculture Deputy Brian Stanley has launched his party's Mandatory Beef Price Transparency Bill 2019. As the farmer protests continue at the...

TV License Fee proposals are not the way forward, argues Laois...

The move by the Government to privatise the collection of TV licences is not the way forward, according to Laois Sinn Féin TD, Brian...

Portlaoise hospital spent a massive €4.4 million on temporary agency staff...

The Midlands Regional Portlaoise spent a massive €4.4 miliion on temporary agency staff in first five months of 2019. Speaking this morning, Laois TD Brian...

Tillage group hits out ‘hypocrisy’ of Mercosur deal as Dáil vote...

The Irish Grain Growers Association, who have a very strong Laois membership, have hit out strongly at the "hypocrisy" surrounding the recent Mercosur trade...

Laois and Offaly home help crisis raised in the Dáil as...

According to Laois TD Brian Stanley, 500 constituents in Laois and Offaly are left on waiting lists for home help services. Speaking in the Dáil,...

1999 Election Memories: The count that ended up in court as...

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2004 Election Memories: No TDs, some PDs, a Sinn Féin breakthrough...

Brought to you in association with People First Credit Union While the country was still basking in the warm afterglow of Bertie Ahern’s second term...

Laois TD says it is ‘shocking’ almost 600 await home support...

Brian Stanley TD has said “that it is shocking over 578 of the most vulnerable people are waiting for home support services across Laois...

‘Appalling’ waiting list for eye services in Portlaoise Hospital

Laois TD Brian Stanley has claimed that waiting lists for Ophthalmology (eye) services in Laois/Offaly are, 'the symptom of a dysfunctional in health system'. A...

Stanley supports repeal of Eighth Amendment

Laois Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley supports repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution. Deputy Stanley said that he is “broadly in support” of...

End discrimination of women in state pensions, argues Laois TD

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley is demanding that the Government reverse the changes to the State Pension eligibility rules which discriminate against thousands of...

Deeply unpopular but constituency changes means Laois will be boring no...

Charlie Flanagan says it is "cackhanded", "inexplicable" and "wholly unsatisfactory". Sean Fleming says it is "most unfair" and "unjustified". Brian Stanley says they've "made...

Works to begin on vacant social housing scheme in Mountrath

Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley says that works on a vacant social housing scheme in Mountrath will begin shortly. He has announced that the contract has...

Minister to visit Eirgrid site in Laois after ‘fraudulent’ claims

The government minister with responsibility for Eirgrid and ESB Networks has said in the Dail that he will visit Coolnabacca, the site of the...

Local TDs argue that EirGrid should ‘abandon’ substation project in Laois

Laois TDs Charlie Flanagan, Sean Fleming and Brian Stanley were united in their calls for EirGrid's planned substation in Laois to be abandoned, following recent...

With only four ambulances in Laois (compared to nine in Offaly),...

Laois Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley is calling for increased resources for the Ambulance Services in Laois. He was reacting to the disclosure that...

Commuters and students to be hit by reduced bus services in...

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley is calling on the Minister for Transport to place a Public Service Obligation (PSO) on the bus route from...

Sinn Fein TD says private rental market in Laois ‘like Wild...

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has called on the government to tackle the issues in the private rental market. The Laois politician made the call...

Laois children face two-year wait for operations

Children in Laois have been told that they could face a wait of over 100 weeks to have their tonsils removed, it has emerged. Sinn...

‘Daft.ie figures are very worrying,’ says Deputy Stanley

Responding to the latest figures published on the Daft.ie website, Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley said that the housing policies being pursued by the...

Laois TD hopes Laois land won’t be left out of disadvantaged...

Laois Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley is calling on the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed to ensure that land in Laois that has been...

Stanley concerned over cherry-picking of most profitable broadband areas

Concerns have been raised by a local TD that the provision of broadband may be delivered only where it is commercially viable. Deputy Brian Stanley...

Brian Stanley pays tribute to Martin McGuinness

Laois Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley has paid tribute to his party colleague Martin McGuinness who passed away this morning in hospital in his...

Reinvigorate post offices, argues Laois TD Stanley

Laois Sinn Féin TD and spokesperson for Communications, Brian Stanley, has expressed his concern today over reports that 80 post office branches could close...

Laois rents make for ‘grim reading’ – Stanley

Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley says he is alarmed at the latest figures on private rental costs in Laois and that the case for...

Brian Stanley: What Sinn Féin would do to give workers and...

Sinn Féin and others stopped Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Green Party plans to impose water charges. These four parties also supported the recent...