Tag: Portlaoise Hospital

The Portlaoise Hospital Action Committee has called for a mass protest to take place this Thursday. In a statement the group say: Thomas Timmons, the chairman...

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has pledged that Portlaoise Hospital will be saved and will not be closed. The Fine Gael TD made the comments...

The details for the Laois TDs' rescheduled meeting with Minister Simon Harris on the future of Portlaoise Hospital has been confirmed. Deputies Charlie Flanagan, Sean...

The Minister for Health Simon Harris has promised the people of Portlaoise that he will provide 'clarity' on the future of the hospital by...

The three Laois TDs are to meet Minister for Health Simon Harris tomorrow to discuss the proposed downgrading of the Midlands Regional Hospital in...

One of the leading campaigners in Monaghan - where a similar campaign to the Portlaoise Hospital Action committee ran to save local services -...

Thousands of people attended the 'Light for Lives' rally to save the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise last night. The rally was organised by the Portlaoise...

NEWS Portlaoise Hospital  Thousands lined the streets of Portlaoise for the 'Light for Lives' rally to save Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise The baby boom continues in Laois The...

The Midlands Hospital Portlaoise has had its fair share of bad stories over the past few years, but a Laois woman's testimony about giving...

Thousands of people converged on Portlaoise from all corners of the county and beyond for a 'Light for Lives' protest rally against the proposed...

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has told Dr Susan O'Reilly to 'bin' her plan to downgrade the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise. The Fine Gael...

The reduction of services at Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise will mean no more large scale events such as the Electric Picnic and the National...

Over 500 people attending public meetings in Mountrath and Abbeyleix on Wednesday evening as the campaign to save Portlaoise Hospital visited towns around the...

The main community group behind the campaign to save the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise from downgrade has announced that they will be holding...

At the recent AGM of Laois Fianna Fail on Friday, November 17, there was strong support from members for the retention and indeed upgrading...

The Portlaoise Hospital Action Committee have hit out strongly at the decision of Dr Susan O'Reilly to visit the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise today...

The local group fighting to prevent the downgrading of services at Portlaoise Hospital are taking their campaign to towns around the county next week...

Sinn Feinn TD Brian Stanley says that closing Portlaoise Hospital's A&E unit is as good as signing the death warrants of Laois patients. He has...

Laois TD Sean Fleming has said there is total shock at the contents of the leaked report prepared by the Regional Manager of the...

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said that the plan for Portlaoise Hospital will be made clear before Christmas. Midlands 103 have reported Harris as...

Laois GPs have expressed a "total lack of confidence" in Dr Susan O'Reilly as CEO of the Dublin-Midlands Leinster Hospital Group "to provide a...

A recent public meeting regarding maintaining essential and lifesaving services, in Portlaiose General Hospital, was extremely well attended. There was universal consensus, that Portlaoise Midlands...

A number of options on how best to protest the proposed downgrading of Accident and Emergency services in Portlaoise Hospital were discussed at Tuesday...

Portlaoise community activist Tommy Timmons has been elected as the new chairman of the Hospital Action Committee and John Hanniffy is the new secretary...

  Your love is like bad medicine Bad medicine is what I need, whoa Shake it up just like bad medicine There ain't no doctor that can cure...

Well over 300 people of all political persuasions, of all ages and all backgrounds gathered in the Midlands Park Hotel last night and the...

A committee has been formed and a first meeting will be held next week to plan the next step in the battle to save...

A prophetic piece on the hospital from LaoisToday back in April when we sounded a serious warning based on the ominous lack of commitment...

All GAA clubs in Laois are being urged to attend a meeting to save Portlaoise Hospital from a possible downgrade. An emergency public meeting in...

An emergency public meeting has been called in relation to the proposed downgrading of services at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise has been...