Laois County Council

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  • New Laois Heritage Trails app launched

    New Laois Heritage Trails app launched

    A new multi-lingual app to the heritage sites of Laois has been launched, as part of the Ireland’s Ancient East programme. The app contains audio-guides to the sites of the Laois Heritage Trail and Laois Monastic Trail in English, Irish, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin, and is free to download from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

     

    Hilary Creedon of Fáilte Ireland, and Roisin Burke, Abarta Heritage with Cllr. John King at Donaghmore Workhouse Museum for the launch of the new Laois Heritage Trails audioguides and smartphone app. Picture: Alf Harvey
    Hilary Creedon of Fáilte Ireland, and Roisin Burke, Abarta Heritage with Cllr. John King at Donaghmore Workhouse Museum for the launch of the new Laois Heritage Trails audioguides and smartphone app.
    Picture: Alf Harvey

     

    Details of the new app, and the new short films telling the story of Laois heritage, are here.

  • Laois Age Friendly

    Laois Age Friendly

    age-friendly-logoLAOIS AIMS TO BE AN AGE FRIENDLY COUNTY

    The Laois Age Friendly County Strategy 2016-2021 is an initiative designed to create a county where older people are valued and respected. It seeks to improve the quality of lives of people over the age of 55 in County Laois. This strategy is being implemented by the Laois County Age Friendly Alliance. This Alliance is an inter-agency group, led by Laois County Council. This is part of a national Age Friendly Cities and Counties Programme spear headed by Age Friendly Ireland.

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