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By Joe Barrett Exactly five years on from when thousands of people took to the streets of Portlaoise to protest against the leaked HSE plans to downgrade the…
145 years ago Court-House in Storey. — Yesterday the County Commissioners of Storey opened bids for the building of a new Court-House an ten prison-cells. Peter Burke was awarded the contract for the building of the Court-house. The formatting be of Philadelphia pressed brick, for the sum of $66,989.55. John R. Simms of San Francisco put in the lowest bid for the building of the ten cells, namely $7,068. 140 years ago Mackay Coming. A Decided Bracing Up of the Market. A man who when he sets foot on one edge of the continent can make the other side tremble must be a bigger man than David Dav...