Portlaoise

Urban litter levels have deteriorated, according to Irish Business Against Litter (Ibal), with Covid-19-related waste, particularly masks, at “record (...)

A man facing 379 charges of theft and fraud has been remanded on continuing bail, at Portlaoise District Court. Malachy McNulty, 39, Summerhill, Bel(...)

Irish Prison management has rejected recommendations from the Inspector of Prisons that quarantining inmates be granted at least one hour a day in the(...)

A Covid-19 outbreak at Portlaoise Garda Síochána contributed to an unusual number of case adjournments at Laois District Court last week. Several ca(...)

Five metres from the grave, the metal detector pinged. The Garda divisional search team dug down into the woodland soil to investigate, hoping they wo(...)

A district in North Waterford has recorded the highest rate of Covid-19 in the State for the second week in a row. The Portlaw-Kilmacthomas local ele(...)

The mother of a man who was missing for three weeks before his decapitated remains were found in a shallow grave has said that it was “not right” for (...)

Two men who claim they were forced to “slop out” when serving sentences at Irish prisons have brought High Court challenges over their exclusion from (...)

A teenager who died after being struck by a van in Co Laois on Saturday night has been named locally as Daragh Lee. Daragh Lee (19) was a Shamrock Rov(...)

An “unprecedented” contraction in the supply of rental accommodation since the lifting of some Covid-19 restrictions in April has led to a 79 per cent(...)