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 ...

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 ...

The first people in Laois were hunters and gatherers who passed through the county about 8,500 years ago. They hunted in the forests that covered Laois and fished in its rivers, gathering nuts and ...

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

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 ...

The townlands of Ireland are now on computer, thanks to the work of a district court clerk from County Cork. The new system hopes to make filing through dusty old documents a thing of the past and ...

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 ...