Tag: Caroline Dwane-Stanley

A huge plan to upgrade a significant portion of Portlaoise is set to get underway next week. A brand new pedestrian crossing as well as...

A HSE official is to be summoned to a meeting in Laois to discuss the ongoing issues surrounding the ambulance service in the county. There...

A delegation of Laois County Councillors met with the new manager of Portlaoise Leisure Centre on Tuesday where the extent of the required improvement...

Laois County Councillors have called for a concrete wall to be built to separate a cemetery from a new housing development. The issue of boundaries...

Laois County Councillor Caroline Dwane-Stanley has hit out at a recent change that to exclude maintenance payments made by social housing applicants. Anyone applying for...

The vacant Centrepoint Shopping Centre on the Mountrath Road in Portlaoise is set to be demolished. Laois County Council has issued a derelict site notice...

A call has been made for bus shelters to be constructed in a busy part of a Laois town. A recent meeting of the Portlaoise...

Plans are advancing to construct a refuge centre to cater for victims of domestic violence in Laois. A meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal District yesterday...

Gardai have been called to Portlaoise Leisure Centre on several occasions this year to deal with incidents of littering and trespass. Director of Services Donal...

'Young mothers don't feel safe walking at night' - So says Sinn Fein Councillor Caroline Dwane Stanley. She made the comment at a recent meeting...

A call has been made for an old Laois school, which is now derelict, to be handed back to the community so they can...

"In all of my years as a County Councillor, I have never received as many calls about one single issue as a I have...

A meeting between Laois County Councillors, Council officials and members of the St Peter & Paul’s cemetery committee in Portlaoise has been called after...

Major improvement works are set to be carried out in the coming months on a 'dangerous' roundabout on a busy Laois road. The roundabout in...

Laois County Council need to prioritise a plan to improve their current housing stock, according to Portlaoise's Sinn Féin councillor Caroline Dwane-Stanley. She was speaking...

Old couches, fridges, blankets, mattress, drugs paraphernalia and general rubbish are strewn across a field owned by Laois County Council in the middle of...

A Laois County Councillor and TD have submitted a detailed masterplan for how they believe Laois County Council should use a sizeable portion of...

A Laois County Councillor has called for safety works to be carried out on a busy Laois road, highlighting a near miss between a...

Laois County Councillors in the Portlaoise Municipal District have called for a indoor sports facility to be built in the town. In 2019, Laois County...

A full investigation has been called for into how works, being carried out on behalf of Irish Water, resulted in tarmacadam getting into a...

Laois County Council have agreed to spend €1 million on an upgrade of a halting site in Portlaoise. Oak Park halting site in Knockmay, beside...

Embattled Laois Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley is to take a week off on the request of his party leader Mary Lou McDonald ahead...

Free parking in Portlaoise for the three Saturdays leading up to Christmas has been sought by local Councillors. Fine Gael Councillor Mary Sweeney had initially...

There have been renewed calls for the courthouse in Portlaoise to be moved off of Main Street as the Covid-19 restrictions on people in...

The Chief Superintendent of the Laois-Offaly Garda Division says his force will take decisive action to stamp out aggressive begging in Portlaoise. John Scanlan made...

A proposal to install a paid parking barrier in Lyster Square received a lukewarm response at yesterday's meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal District. Cllr Thomasina...

"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...

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