Tag: Laois County Council

After the drama and exchanges in the County Council chamber this morning, it was all very amicable this afternoon. After the Portlaoise Councillors clashed over...

Willie Aird has been elected as the chairman of the Portlaoise Municipal District for the next 12 months - but only after a fairly...

Padraig Fleming was voted in as the new Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council for the next 12 months at today's AGM in what was...

It was a bitterly disappointing election campaign for Sinn Féin as the party failed to add to their two seats in Laois County Council. They...

Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of creativity for children and young people, was held over the weekend, with children throughout Laois given the...

Fianna Fáil's Seamus McDonald will soon begin his fifth decade in local politics, having first been elected in 1985. Cllr McDonald was successfully re-elected in...

Fianna Fáil are once again the largest party in Laois, winning six out of 19 Council seats at last week's Local Elections. Among those elected...

It was a bitterly disappointing election campaign for Sinn Féin as the party failed to add to their two seats in Laois County Council. However,...

Independent Cllr James Kelly was comfortably re-elected to Laois County Council earlier this week, returning to the Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick Municipal District on the 7th count. The...

With the 2024 Local Elections now in the rear-view mirror, the 19 successful candidates will be making all the headlines. But a special space must...

Close but not just close enough. Fianna Fáil's Naeem Iqbal got 624 first preference votes in this year's Local Elections in the Portlaoise Municipal District,...

Fianna Fáil are once again the largest party in Laois, having won six of the 19 County Council seats on offer in last week's...

After the first count in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District, outgoing councillor PJ Kelly seemed to be in a good position. The Fine Gael man from...

Independent Aisling Moran was comfortably re-elected in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District in the Local Elections. This was Moran's second election to contest but her first...

The big breakthrough success story of this year's Local Elections in Laois was Independent candidate Tommy Mulligan, who won a seat in the Portlaoise...

The story of the 2024 Local Elections in Laois was undoubtedly the remarkable comeback of Fine Gael's Vivienne Phelan. The Stradbally woman was as much...

Picture Our Future, a unique and engaging free exhibition, is set to run at Portlaoise Library throughout June, blending art and climate action communication...

Laois County Council have been urged to appoint a Communications Officer to share the work undertaken by the Council with the community and the...

The people of Laois and Ireland will go to the polls on Friday as the 2024 Local and European election voting will take place. As...

There was a huge dispute between councillors of Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District, with the Fianna Fáil councillors accused of "an election stunt" by their political...

A Laois County Cllr has called on Roderic O'Gorman TD, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability and Youth, and Heather Humphries TD Minister for Social...

Laois County Council have poured cold water on talks of a Regional Sports Centre in Portlaoise, saying they are not "in a position to...

Laois County Council and Laois Community Development Committee have launched their Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) and Local Authority Climate Action Plan (LACAP). The...

Laois County Council have confirmed the appointment of an interim CEO following the departure of John Mulholland. Back in February, Mr Mulholland signalled that he...

Talk of building a state-of-the-art, custom-built, national sports complex in Portlaoise is never far from the headlines in the Laois media. It was confirmed in...

Calls have been made for Roadstone Management to liaise with local people in the vicinity of the company's site in Laois "in the interest...

Who thought we could have got lost in Timahoe? The Local Elections come around just every five years so in a local media outlet, generating...

A Laois County Councillor has urged the Local Authority to purchase a plot of land with "huge potential for future development." Fine Gael Cllr PJ...

Laois County Council have been called upon to make several improvements to public infrastructure across the south-east of the County. Independent Cllr Aisling Moran raised...

Laois County Council have been called on to conduct an investigation into "long delays" in "basic public infrastructure" in the County. Speaking at the Graiguecullen-Portarlington...