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• €18k Made Available To Fund Midlands Age And Opportunity Programme

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• Housing Minister Predicts Falling Midlands Homelessness

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• €200,000 In Cash And Substantial Amount Of Drugs Seized In Laois

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• Massive Laois Operation Leads To Multiple Arrests In Connection With Stolen Vehicles

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• Over 300 New Dwellings Completed In The Midlands This Year

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• Concerns Raised Over Emergency Power Plant In The Midlands

  The project is expected to be completed in the near future.

• National Ploughing Association Appoints New President, Chair And Vice-Chair

  Five new appointees were announced today.

• Offaly Boy 'Raring To Go' After Life-Saving Procedure

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• Over €7m In Just Transition Funding For The Midlands

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• Cancer Numbers Could Double By 2045 - Offaly Charity

  Dóchas is calling on additional investment from Government.

• First-Ever Laois Cost-Rental Homes Officially Opened

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• Late Laois Two-Year-Old's Organs Used To Save Three Children

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• State Expects To Exceed 2023 Midlands Housing Delivery

  Just over 1,800 homes were built in the region last year.

• Abolishment Of Carer's Means Test May Be Halted By "Permanent Government"

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• Ryanair Calling On EU To Protect Flights Amid French Air Strikes

  2,000 European flights have been cancelled today.

• Low Cost Home Heating Loans The Final Piece Of Retrofitting Jigsaw - Pippa Hackett

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