World Bee Day marked by Laois Offaly Senator and Laois Offaly Wildlife Trust
Reporter:
20 May 2021
Minister Hackett and Barry Delany, Senior Inspector, Horticulture and Plant Health in Kildare to mark World Bee Day. );
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Super junior Laois Offaly Minister of State Pippa Hackett has visited a bee laboratory for World Bee Day today Thursday May 20.
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Senator Hackett visited the department s Bee Health laboratory at the Backweston Campus in Kildare.
The Department provides a bee health service, free of charge, facilitating the early detection of pests and pathogens which is key to maintaining healthy stock of bees in Ireland.
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Firefighters tackle huge fire in Slieve Blooms
Reporter:
8 Mar 2021
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Fire crews tackled a large fire in the Slieve Bloom mountains on the Laois-Offaly border on Sunday March 7.
Crews from Mountrath, Portlaoise, Mountmellick and Rathdowney stations spent the Sunday dealing with a large fire on Conlawn Hill near Ballyfin on the Laois side of the mountains.
Below: Laois fire crews fighting the fire. The legal season for burning of vegetation has ended.
An Garda Siochána and National Parks & Wildlife Service will be investigating the source of Sunday’s fire.
Laois Offaly Wildlife Trust has urged people to report illegal fires immediately.
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