Inland Barge Hire Firm Seeking Tenders for New Passenger Vessel
14th March 2021
Barrowline Cruisers operates a barge hire business from Vicarstown, Co Laois
Barrowline Cruisers in Vicarstown wants to commission and fit out a 46ft passenger barge or boat with a capacity of 36 passengers plus crew, and with a galley snack bar and toilets on board.
“The barge will ply the Grand Canal/River Barrow and the waterways of Ireland,” the company states. “It will do passenger trips and private functions. All fittings to be of a high standard.”
The firm estimates a seven-month build time for the project, which is subject to grant funding.
A Co Laois man was fined £500 (€578) today after he admitted trying to pay for sexual services.
In just the second case if it’s kind in Northern Ireland, Newry Magistrates Court heard that for 35-year-old John Bergin, media attention to his case “has been humiliating and degrading and a salutary lesson.”
Although Bergin, from Fassidinas New Row, Abbeyleix in Co. Laois, did not attend court personally, defence counsel Kevin O’Hare entered guilty pleas to two offences on his behalf - trying to pay for sexual services and possessing class A cocaine on 18 October last year.
A further charge of paying sexual services was not proceeded with and a prosecuting lawyer told the court how cops were alerted to report of “suspicious activity” on Monaghan Street in the city in the early hours of the morning when two women parked up in a white land rover.
Covid-19: Laois nursing home emerges from outbreak that led to 17 deaths Challenge of supporting facilities experiencing outbreaks ‘very significant’, HSE says
Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 21:57
Some 71,600 first dose vaccinations have been administered in nursing homes and other long-term residential care facilities. Photograph: iStock
A Co Laois nursing home hit by a “horrendous” Covid-19 outbreak that led to the deaths of 17 residents in just 20 days was “through it now”, the healthcare manager behind the home has said.
The surviving 48 residents at Droimnín Nursing Home in Stradbally, all of whom caught the virus during the post-Christmas outbreak, have emerged from post-Covid 14-day isolation.