GRANTS totalling over €140,000 have been approved for a variety of Laois projects, under three separate government funding schemes. The grants announced this week will see €143,318 spent on projects ...

A planning application on a proposed huge solar farm in Laois has been placed on hold. Laois County Council says the plan for ...

A public meeting will take place on Thursday night this week in Ballinakill over concerns for a proposed windfarm for south County Laois ... in the townlands of Ballynalacken, Ballymartin ...

This is an area not suitable for wind farms, as set out in the Laois County Development Plan as ... for a windfarm and related works in the townlands of Fossy Upper, Aghoney, Gorreelagh ...

This follows Laois County Council granting planning permission ... last year to recommence mining activities across eight townlands near Galmoy in Co Kilkenny. Planning documents lodged with ...

Abbeyleix heritage town is the food and culture capital of County Laois where coffee is the new Guinness. With lakes, bogs, rivers, kayaking and biking at Slieve Bloom and the blue way ...