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When Portarlington won the Laois senior football championship twice in the same year

The Portarlington footballers won two Laois senior county finals in 1955
The Portarlington footballers won two Laois senior county finals in 1955

Sometimes history has a funny way of repeating itself. The last time the Laois senior football championship wasn’t finished in the year it started was in 1954, when it was held up until March of 1955. Then Portarlington won both titles, having enduring decades without success prior to it, with the re-emergence coming off the…