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Portlaoise to get new signs for the culturally curious great escapers
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Laois County Council has budgeted to spend €50,000 on a project to direct visitors around Portlaoise and tell them more about the town s history.
The council has invited firms to bid for a research, scripting, planning and design wayfinding and interpretation signage contract for Portlaoise.
Companies will be asked to focus on the historic core area of Portlaoise under the project which is funded by Failte Ireland under the Destination Towns Programme.
The council wants designs for placemaking at the entrance to three medieval laneways branching off Main Street – integrating archways on both ends of Pepper’s Lane (Main Street and Lyster Square) and archways on both ends of Lyster Lane (Main Street and Lyster Square) and a wall plaque/freestanding sign as appropriate at Bull Lane. The council already has a plan for the lanes.
Portlaoise s Medical Mile
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Prof Henry O Connell Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Professor (UL), and Triogue Community Mental Health Centre, Portlaoise
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Portlaoise is the county town of Laois and, with a current population of 22,000, one of the fastest growing towns in Ireland. Centrally located in the Irish midlands and within commuting distance of Dublin, Waterford and Limerick, Portlaoise has in recent years become increasingly cosmopolitan, with a young population and growth in many local industries.
Portlaoise began as a stone fortification built by English settlers in the mid-16th century. This was part of a wider Tudor plantation policy whereby English settlers were moved onto land confiscated by the Crown from the native Irish.
Call to make Portlaoise courthouse a museum for Laois
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The courthouse in Portlaoise should become a Laois history museum, a local councillor says.
The busy courthouse which has been criticised for bringing crime and anti social behaviour onto the Main Street, is planned to be moved to a new purpose built building in Portlaoise.
Cllr Noel Tuohy says the old building is ideal to become a museum and heritage centre for the town and county.
He tabled a motion to the March meeting of Portlaoise Municipal District, to ask the council to support efforts to open a centre in Portlaoise.
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