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laois / arts and media / event notice Friday August 08, 2014 10:13 by Tadhg
The best of recent Irish Short Films will screen in Bergin's/ Horseshoe Inn, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
on Wednesday 13th August, starting at 6.00 pm.

Admission is free agus beidh fáilte roimh Gaeilge ar an óiche.

After, the 6.00 screening of Irish Shorts, the night will proceed at 8.00 with a screening of the very stimulating PERIPHERAL VISION, the latest documentary by Donnacha Ó Briain (synopsis below) [www.peripheralvision.co]. read full story / add a comment
laois / animal rights / event notice Sunday July 31, 2011 19:08 by Laura Broxson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 03, 2011 11:00)

Hi, 


We're launching a new campaign to ensure that a ban on fur farming is included in the upcoming Animal Health & Welfare Bill.  


Part of this campaign will include touring the counties that have fur farms - to host awareness days, do leaflet drops, organise meetings with local councillors and TD's, as well as having protests at the actual farms too. 


To start things off, we'll be having a simple 'Awareness Day' in Laois, home of Ireland's largest fur farm, Vasa Ltd.

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laois / politics / elections / news report Tuesday December 14, 2010 11:35 by Eóin Breathnach   text 13 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 02:06)
John Whelan imposed in Laois/Offaly by Labour after party walkout on voting. read full story / add a comment
laois / education / event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:55 by RachelLYCS
Spend two days in Co. Laois in March learning how to relate important global themes with the issues you are dealing with on the ground here on Ireland. Empower your participants to understand how the world works and to stake a stance! read full story / add a comment
laois / animal rights / event notice Monday February 15, 2010 13:51 by Laura Broxson
Come join our protest, and help us get these barbaric 'farms' closed down! read full story / add a comment
laois / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 04, 2009 00:18 by Laura Broxson
Hi,

On Saturday 10th October, a small group of us will be heading down to Portlaoise, Co. Laois, to leaflet-drop the town about fur farming.

When we're finished there, we'll be going to Stradbally, Co. Laois, for an impromptu protest outside Ireland's largest fur farm (45,000 mink are murdered here every year), Vasa Ltd. read full story / add a comment
laois / miscellaneous / event notice Friday October 24, 2008 20:10 by Brian   text 1 comment (last - friday august 28, 2009 14:06)
On Saturday 25th October, Laois Sinn Féin are organising a demonstration outside the constituency office of Fianna Fail's John Moloney TD, the Minister of State at the Dept. of Health and Children, in Mountmellick Co. Laois, over budget cutbacks and their effects on health, the elderly, and education in the county. read full story / add a comment
laois / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday July 06, 2008 03:03 by William Phelan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 15, 2008 20:00)
In a move which is shocking in its cynicism and casual brutality the HSE in Laois, and I assume nationally, has stopped a free taxi service which had enabled parents with children in foster care to visit their children once a week. This attack on a marginal group with many health and social disadvantages is a clear indication of how theGovt intend to make the poor pay for its recession. The old , the sick and the poor yet again. We must organise to defend basic social services against these slash and burn tactics. read full story / add a comment
laois / animal rights / other press Thursday May 08, 2008 15:19 by animal lover   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 08, 2008 18:30)
A WOMAN who ran a dog rescue centre has been found guilty of cruelty to more than 40 animals under her care.
Cassidy Sinclair (50) appeared before Portlaoise District Court yesterday on two charges of cruelty to animals.
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laois / history and heritage / event notice Friday April 06, 2007 21:34 by BadSamaritan
Laois James Fintan Lalor Cumann will hold an annual Easter Commemoration on 8th April 2007 at 1:00pm sharp marching from Shaw's on Main Street Portlaoise to New Cemetary on the Stradbally Road. read full story / add a comment
laois / politics / elections / press release Wednesday April 04, 2007 00:44 by BadSamaritan   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 05, 2007 14:21)
Laois/Offaly Sinn Fein held their official Election Launch on Tuesday 3rd of April at 8:30pm in the Town Hall, Mountmellick, Co. Laois. Speakers included Cllr. Brian Stanley, and an Sinn Fein MLA from Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
laois / arts and media / event notice Monday March 05, 2007 11:00 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday march 05, 2007 14:38)   image 2 images
An exhibition of work by the distinguished Irish artist Robert Ballagh opens to the public at the Heywood Community School, Ballinakill, Co Laois, on Monday 5 March 2007. Comprising seven works the exhibition focuses on works produced by Ballagh during the 1970s. This exhibition is the fourth collaboration between IMMA’s National Programme and the Heywood Community School and coincides with the school’s ninth Annual Arts Week.
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laois / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 21, 2006 12:53 by Mark C   text 17 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 19:17)
Last Friday week I spent four hours trying to contact BT Ireland with a very simple query (can they reset my wireless connection so that I don't need a password to connect to the internet?). I spent four hours on the phone to no avail. read full story / add a comment
laois / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 30, 2006 16:26 by Freeeeeeeeeeeee   text 1 comment (last - friday september 08, 2006 21:05)
Rossa (Kila), Ciaron (Pit Stop Ploughshare) & Robbie (Majority World) will be bringing anti-war and free speech vibe to Electric Picnic this weekend in the Leviathon Think Tank Tent

http://www.electricpicnic.ie/html/leviathan.html
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laois / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 30, 2006 00:02 by Fiona G.
Made in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon - the British parts in Israel's deadly attack helicopters
· Key parts for Israeli aircraft made in UK
· Rights groups say Apaches used for assassinations

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laois / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 26, 2006 14:46 by Mark C   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 14:34)
On Tuesday, May 2nd, at 8:30 pm, Kavanagh's pub in Portlaoise will hold what is believed to be the town's first night of a live performance of poetry; what makes this night unique is that all poems being performed are unpublished and have not been read to an audience before.
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laois / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 30, 2006 18:10 by E.   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 00:58)
Amnesty Ireland Laois Group Banner Campaign 11.2.06 read full story / add a comment
The Katherine -- Fairgreen Village
laois / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday September 22, 2005 21:02 by Mark C   text 28 comments (last - wednesday december 14, 2005 21:45)   image 1 image

From the newswire: €170,000 was the price paid for the house that I am living in, in a new development in Portlaoise. I am not happy to have discovered that European Union (Czech Republic) workers are being paid €3 an hour on the site.

A correspondent reports on the actual employment conditions facing Czech workers in the booming Irish private property construction sector. NOTE: this story has been updated following contact with the developers. See update note and comment below from Mark Conroy read full story / add a comment
laois / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 16, 2005 11:21 by Mark
Recently I received an email offering me abuse and props for the Shannon Peace Festival from Mark Conroy ( a retired US Marine, not me) who seems to be taking offence at me remarking the the Peace Festival will be, and must be, anti-American as well as anti-Irish government, since it is the American military with the aid of the Irish government who are occupying Iraq and Shannon. Following is his two emails and my two responses. My second response hasn't been replied to. read full story / add a comment
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