Late Fitzpatrick goal key as Laois Ladies claim first league win
Laois 3-6 Longford 2-6
Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 3 Round 3
The Laois Ladies football team have recorded their first win of the league...
Goals either side of half time cost Laois as Cavan end unbeaten run
Laois 1-6 Cavan 3-10
Allianz Football League Division 2
Two goals either side of half time saw Laois's unbeaten start to Division 2 ended by Cavan...
Laois hurlers go down to Clare in awful conditions in Ennis
Clare 0-17 Laois 0-9
Allianz Hurling League Division 1B
The Laois hurlers are still without a win after their brave performance in awful conditions fell just...
JOB VACANCIES: Jones Engineering holding walk-in interviews in Portlaoise on Thursday, February 20
Jones Engineering will be holding Walk in Interviews for Mechanical & Electrical construction trades personnel for a large, long term project in Leixlip with...
Final week of Winter Sale at Fifty Seven Boutique
Now is the time to bag yourself a bargain at Fifty Seven Boutique as their winter sale enters its final week.
For anyone with Weddings...
LIVE BLOG: Laois footballers take on Cavan in Allianz Football League Division 2
Storm Dennis is still raging out there but we are live as the Laois footballers take on Cavan in Round 3 of Division 2...
Love Island, Apache Pizza and Sinn Féin – It’s all in our Tweets of...
Laois people never let us down on Twitter!
And this week is no different.
Check out our selection below:
We feel your pain Gráinne
I want to be...
Property Watch: Five houses in Laois for sale for around €250,000
This week for Property Watch we look at homes in Laois for sale for approximately €250,000.
If that sounds like your budget, then we recommend you...
Choose the Woodford Dolmen Hotel as your wedding venue
Choose the traditional elegance of the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, set on the picturesque banks of the River Barrow, as your wedding venue.
The Woodford Dolmen...
Support your local club through annual Laois GAA draw
Laois GAA people are being urged to support their local club ahead of the first All County Clubs Members Draw next month.
There is over...
Box by Box: How the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick area voted in the 2020 General Election
Brian Stanley's dominance across the Laois-Offaly constituency, and in particularly in Laois, was again evident in the Borris-in-Ossory/Municipal District when he took in over...
Your guide to the game as Laois hurlers take on Clare
The Laois senior hurlers continue their Allianz League Division 1 campaign this afternoon when they make the trip to Ennis to take on Clare.
Laois...
How the power of prayer was the secret weapon to get Laois-Offaly TD back...
It might be pushing it a bit far to call it a miracle, but the re-election of one local TD last weekend was against...
What you need to know as the Laois footballers take on Cavan in Division...
After a seven-day delay, the Laois senior footballers are set to face Cavan this afternoon in Round 3 of the National Football League.
Results last...
No regrets as Fianna Fail’s Peter Ormond reflects on election campaign
For Fianna Fail's Peter Ormond, last week's General Election was a new experience.
Not only was it his first time going for the Dail, but...
Deaths in Laois – Sunday, February 16, 2020
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Joe Bolger
Sliebh Bloom Heights, Rathdowney, Laois
Bolger, Sleibh Bloom Heights, Rathdowney and formerly...
In Pictures: Portarlington celebrates the election of its first TD since 1927
A large crowd of supporters of the newly elected TD for Kildare South, Portarlington resident, Dr Cathal Berry gathered in Portarlington Golf Club on...
Players and management badly treated by GAA’s negligence of U-20 grade
All last week there were rumblings surrounding the Laois U-20 football team ahead of their Leinster championship quarter-final against Westmeath which was due to...
BREAKING: Laois U-20 Leinster clash against Westmeath called off due to Storm Dennis
The Laois U-20s Leinster quarter final clash against Westmeath has been called off.
With the ground in MW Hire O’Moore Park filling up, the referee...
Moment In Time: Lords and ladies turn out in style for 18th Century Durrow...
Twelve years ago the people of Durrow transported themselves back to the 18th century.
The event was one of a few held to celebrate the...
Talking Politics: Observations on Laois-Offaly, Kildare South & a replayed election?
Brought to you in association with Midlands Park Hotel
A week on from the country going to the polls in the 2020 General Election, there's...
Box by Box: How the Graiguecullen-Portarlington area voted in the 2020 General Election
The Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District in Laois voted overwhelmingly in favour of the three outgoing TDs from the county in last weekend's General Election as...
New to the Area: From a copywriter in Wiltshire to a glampsite owner in...
Kyra Fingleton is the owner of ‘Glamping Under the Stars’ - a boutique glampsite located near Ballyroan.
The glampsite has quickly established itself as one...
Deaths in Laois – Saturday, February 15, 2020
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
John Scully
Derragooney, Knock, Roscrea, Tipperary/Camross, Laois
And formerly of Ballinrally, Camross, Co. Laois.
Pre-deceased...
Weekend Read: 25 years on from the famous Laois-Westmeath minor trilogy
Laois and Westmeath have played out many big battles over the years but the one that really brought the rivalry on to a new...
Laois hurling team named for league clash against Clare
The Laois senior hurling team to play Clare in Sunday’s Allianz League Division 1 game in Ennis shows three changes from the side beaten...
