Tag: County Final Memory

All our Laois GAA club championship coverage is brought to you in association with Mulhall’s SuperValu, Portlaoise Courtwood and Portarlington meet in the Laois SFC...

All our Laois GAA club championship coverage is brought to you in association with Mulhall’s SuperValu, Portlaoise Camross 1-5 Portlaoise 0-7 1985 Laois SHC Final There's something...

Portarlington 1-10 St Joseph's 0-7 1995 Laois SFC Final In some counties, as happens on All Ireland final day, a victorious team from the past is...

All our Laois GAA club championship coverage is brought to you in association with Mulhall’s SuperValu, Portlaoise ‘The Future Looks Bright!’ is the only text...

First of all, it's not a 'famine', it's not a 'drought'. Not in the traditional sense anyway. But for Portlaoise, with 35 title successes in...

Rathdowney-Errill 0-17 Clough-Ballacolla 0-14 2012 Laois SHC Final There was a time when these clubs rarely entered the conversation for Laois hurling honours.  From 1976 to 1991,...

Clonad 0-16 Portlaoise 2-7 1992 Laois SHC Final From 1976 to 1991 only two clubs won the Laois senior hurling championship: Camross and Portlaoise. In 1992, however,...

Ballylinan 4-9 Mountmellick 0-8 1973 Laois IFC Final Fifty years is a long time to be without championship silverware - but that is exactly the situation...

Camross 1-5 Portlaoise 0-7 1985 Laois SHC Final There's something about a five-in-a-row in the GAA world that has proven so difficult for so many teams...

Ballypickas 1-7 Kyle 0-5 1994 Laois JHC ‘A’ Final Ballypickas and Kyle are two of the smallest hurling clubs in Laois but they’re two clubs with...

This piece was originally published on LaoisToday in May 2020. Clonaslee 0-13 Clonad 0-8 1975 Laois SFC Final It remains the greatest day in Clonaslee hurling...

Ahead of a 50-year reunion for the St Joseph's senior championship winning side of 1973 this weekend, we reproduce our County Final Memory piece...

We revisited the famous 1997 Intermediate Hurling final back in September, remembering the clash between two proud Laois teams, Clonaslee and Colt. Clonaslee 1-14 Colt...

This Friday evening in the Laois GAA Centre of Excellence, Ballyroan-Abbey will put their Laois U-20 football title on the line when they take...

Stradbally 2-10 Portlaoise 0-10 1997 Laois SFC Final For one of the county's most traditional and successful clubs, Stradbally had to endure an almost 60-year wait...

Talk about a dream final pairing. Portlaoise’s dominance over the past five decades has meant that so many Laois senior football finals have involved The...

  For most clubs, 11 years without a county final success wouldn't really cast them a thought. In Camross, though, that is an absolute famine. When they...

Clonaslee 1-14 Colt 1-7 1997 Laois IHC Final Clonaslee have a proud hurling heritage in Laois, one that includes four senior titles to the club’s name,...

The Heath 2-17 Ballyroan 2-15 (after extra time) 1993 Laois SFC Final In the history of Laois county football finals, the 1993 edition surely has to...

Spink 1-9 Rosenallis 1-8 1986 Laois JFC Final In the normal scheme of things, a Junior ‘B’ county final ranks well down the pecking order when...

This piece originally appeared in our County Final Memory series in June, 2020. Colt 0-16 Borris-in-Ossory 2-6 2008 Laois IHC Final The Colt hurlers lost more than...

This piece originally appeared in our County Final Memory series on August 20, 2020. Mountrath 1-12 Trumera 1-9 2001 Laois IHC Final All across Laois there are...

Ballyroan 1-4 Barrowhouse 1-3 1979 Laois IFC Final This Sunday in O'Moore Park, Ballyroan-Abbey and Barrowhouse will battle it out for the Laois Junior 'A' football...

Portlaoise 0-7 Portarlington 0-5 1991 Laois SFC Final Given the size of the two towns and their respective proud histories, Portarlington and Portlaoise have only met...

Clough-Ballacolla 2-11 Ballinakill 2-8 1991 Laois IHC Final Given that Clough-Ballacolla are trying to write their place into history by claiming the Laois senior hurling title...

Park-Ratheniska 1-13 Barrowhouse 0-8 2006 Laois JFC 'A' Final The Park-Ratheniska footballers go in search of intermediate championship glory this Friday night in O'Moore Park when...

Mountmellick 1-12 Annanough 1-6 2006 Laois IFC Final By the time Mountmellick reached the 2006 intermediate football final, there was a considerable burden on their shoulders. Not...

Timahoe 0-10 Mountmellick 0-8 2004 Laois IFC Final Mountmellick and Timahoe meet in the Laois IFC semi-final this coming Sunday with both clubs trying to make...

This piece originally featured on LaoisToday on May 15, 2020, as part of our County Final Memory series.  Portlaoise 1-7 St Joseph's 0-9 1970 Laois SFC...

Ballyroan-Abbey and St Joseph's meet in Round 2 of the Laois senior football championship next Sunday. Ahead of that game we look back on...