Tag: Caroline Dwane-Stanley

A Laois Councilor has called on the County Council to implement the recommendations of of the roads and footpaths accessibility survey as soon as...

Laois County Council intend to remove 65 metres of trees in St Brigid's Place in Portlaoise this autumn. The trees are at the boundary adjacent...

A suggestion to Laois County Council to ask auctioneers to stop putting up 'For Sale' signs at the entrance to housing estates went in...

Sinn Fein have selected a second candidate to run for them in the Local Election which will take place in May 2024. Maria McCormack, of...

Given the number of roundabouts dotted around Portlaoise town, you'd think that there would be little appetite for any more. But the Mountmellick Road area...

"I have witnessed people charged with serious crimes kicking out or jostling into other who are there to seeking help from the courts." A meeting...

A Laois County Councillor has signalled her frustration as the wait for two bus shelters to be constructed near Kilminchy in Portlaoise continues. Sinn Fein's...

Laois County Councillors have received advice about how to manage their personal security from Gardai. Laois Offaly Garda Crime Prevention Officer Sergeant Graham Kavanagh met...

A Laois County Councillor has called for a two-stage process to be enacted in relation to two houses that were burnt out in a...

A design is currently being prepared to link two major roads in Portlaoise in an area where two abandoned houses are currently left. The area...

Two houses that were burnt out in a Laois housing estate are set to be fully refurbished after a new design was agreed. The update...

A Laois County Councillor has called for safety works at a Portlaoise primary school to be carried out before children return in September. Sinn Fein...

An elderly Laois man was so terrified after his house was burgled that he moved out and signed himself into a nursing home. So a...

While it is always welcome to see more properties being returned to the council's social housing stock to tackle the waiting list, a vacant...

Two Laois County Councillors have disputed figures released by the Department of Housing in relation to the county. Yesterday, the Department said that Laois had...

Elderly people are 'risking life and limb' crossing the road at Kilminchy due to flooding that makes the footpath impassable. At the recent meeting of...

The owner of a derelict cottage near Centrepoint, where people are "carrying out all kinds of activities" that are putting elderly residents in fear,...

On Monday, members of Laois County Council voted to put through the sale of 3.42 hectares at Portlaoise Enterprise Park to Kirby Group Engineering...

Laois County Councillors met in full in the Council Chamber to formally sign off on the Laois County Development Plan which will cover the...

The ongoing delays surrounding the delivery of 32 new houses in Clonrooske Abbey in Portlaoise has been described as a 'vicious circle'. Fianna Fail Councillor...

Funding of €1.5 million has been approved by Laois County Council for a new Civil Defence facility in Portlaoise. However, a suitable property has not...

Something needs to be done to improve road safety at Scoil Bhride in Portlaoise before there's a fatality. So said Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley at...

Frontline workers and retail staff deserve recognition for all their hard work instead of being insulted by a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by...

Laois County Council has been given the go ahead to recruit six new staff into the housing section of the Council to assist them...

Laois County Council's inability to spend the majority of a record allocation of grant money from the government has been labelled 'an absolute and...

The pace at which a huge plan to upgrade a significant portion of Portlaoise is being carried out at has come in for fierce...

"A social media frenzy" is exaggerating the problem of "date rape" attacks where young women are being stuck with needles in nightclubs, according to...

Almost 190 Laois homes in seven housing estates are to be retrofitted by the middle of 2022. Laois County Council was approved funding for two...

A meeting with the housing body Cluid has been demanded in a bid to find out why a major housing development in Laois has...

There have been renewed calls for the construction of a Columbarium Wall and crematorium in Portlaoise. This comes after Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald put down a...