The dog pound will also be extending its opening hours.

“A letter should go requesting them (HIQA and the HSE) to meet with us in person. I want to be able to look them in the eye and asking them questions,”  said one councillor.

Buses sought on a number of more roads in Portlaoise

“People walking or in wheelchairs need to be able to get around the cemetery" - Cllr Marie Tuohy

A Laois councillor is calling for a review on the laws around electric scooter use

Ten years ago, Leo Varadkar said the housing situation was a national emergency. This government has been continuously in power for the last ten years" - Cllr Marie Tuohy

LAOIS County Council staff are to keep on eye on the electric car charging parking spaces in the new car park at the Railway Station in Portlaoise to ensure motorists are not parking all day in the spaces.

The green field site for the new courthouse is located on lands behind the Aldi store, off James Fintan Lalor Avenue.

INFORMATION has been sought from the HSE following a recent report by the Land Development Agency that identified lands adjoining Saint Fintan’s Hospital in Portlaoise, that has the potential to realise up to 960 homes.

LAOIS County Council is to repair a boundary wall at Woodview Estate and Woodview Mews in Portlaoise.

A PEDESTRIAN crossing is needed to be upgraded or manned at one of the largest primary schools in Laois.

A NEWLY named ‘Local Community Safety Partnership’ that replaced Joint Policing Committees (JPC) will come into operation within the next few weeks.

THERE appears to be no room, or very little room, at the inn for seven councillors in Laois when it comes to them, meeting ahead of council meetings. Laois County Council comprises of 19 councillors.

A LAOIS councillor has called on the Minister responsible for Social Protection to consider paying year round fuel allowance payments to people with permanent physical disabilities.

COUNCILLORS from the Portlaoise Municipal District Council heaped praise on a council administrative officer on her final day with them.

“The back lane is a thundering disgrace," said the councillor.

'During Covid this issue really came to the fore' - Cathaoirleach of  Portlaoise Municipal District Council cllr Paddy Buggy.

A PORTLAOISE councillor again complained about broken pedestrian crossing traffic lights at Portlaoise College when local councillors met for their March meeting.

LAOIS County Council is considering landscaping the concrete area in front of Keegan’s Funeral Home in Portlaoise with biodiversity and pollinator friendly plants before the end of Summer.

"It’s a death trap," warned one councillor.

"Can we have some idea when the lights will be fixed," asked the councillor?

'The pop up Don Phalaistin was a way we could have shown our support through our own Irish culture towards what’s going in in Palestine and in Gaza' - Cllr Tommy Mulligan.

THE first bus on the long-awaited dedicated bus service for Portlaoise town will begin at 4. 50am this coming Sunday 23 February.

CLLR Caroline Dwane Stanley told her follow councillors at the January meeting of Laois County Council that she has been “living on a building site for 19-years.

You can bring clothes, that are not going to be recycled or resold, to the SVP shop in Stradbally said one councillor.

 “It’ll be a disaster,” said one councillor.

CAROLINE Dwane Stanley, the wife of re-elected Independent Dáil candidate Brian Stanley, held nothing back in the election count centre when she lashed out at her Sinn Féin colleagues, accusing them of running “a toxic, dirty, despicable and ...

Cllr Mullins is supporting Sinn Féin in its bid to take a seat in Laois in the upcoming general election