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Laois Ladies football experienced an incredibly busy 2025 season at club and county level and that was reflected in particularly glitzy celebration in the Midlands Park Hotel on Saturday night.
As well as reached the Leinster and All Ireland intermediate finals – albeit coming up short in both – Laois were also crowned Leinster minor ‘B’ champions with a very impressive young side.
Both of those teams were feted and presented with their relevant medals.
And for the second year running, there was also a Team of the Year presentation from each of Laois’s main adult club championships – senior, intermediate and junior.
As well as that, there was a selection of club and county player of the year awards handed out.
In a brilliantly-organised event by the Laois LGFA officials, MC for the occasion was Jack Nolan.
Laois LGFA chairperson Martina Phelan welcomed those in attendance and said that the game in the county is in a very healthy position with an exciting future to look forward to.
Senior manager Stephen Duff and minor manager Adrian Slevin both also spoke on the night as they looked back on their 2025 campaigns and ahead to next year, with both managers in the roles again and already planning the way forward.
The various Teams of the Year were as follows:
Senior
- Claire O’Connell (St Conleth’s)
- Deirdre Phelan (Portlaoise)
- Clodagh Dunne (Ballyroan)
- Mary Cotter (St Conleth’s)
- Andrea Moran (Ballyroan)
- Ellen Healy (Portlaoise)
- Ciara Crowley (Portlaoise)
- Jane Moore (St Joseph’s)
- Fiona Dooley (Portlaoise)
- Shifra Havill (St Conleth’s)
- Eva Galvin (St Conleth’s)
- Lauren Kearney (Sarsfields)
- Aoibhe Foyle (Sarsfields)
- Grainne Moran (Portlaoise)
- Aideen Gee (Ballyroan)
Intermediate
- Maryann O’Neill (Graiguecullen)
- Aoife Langford (St Paul’s)
- Caoimhe Brennan (Graiguecullen)
- Lisa Walsh (St Brigid’s)
- Aine Lacey (St Brigid’s)
- Georgina Donovan (Graiguecullen)
- Jade Nolan (Graiguecullen)
- Caoimhe Fitzpattrick (Graiguecullen)
- Niamh O’Rourke (Ballyfin)
- Lauren Walsh (Graiguecullen)
- Mags McEvoy (Graiguecullen)
- Liadan C-Fennell (Ballyfin)
- Lucie O’Reilly (St Brigid’s)
- Mia Branagan (Graiguecullen)
- Caoimhe Simms (St Brigid’s)
Junior
- Aoife Hyland-Conlon (Portlaoise)
- Seoighe English (Killeshin)
- Eva Booth (The Heath)
- Orla Davis (Killeshin)
- Lisa Keane (The Heath)
- Amy Byrne (Portlaoise)
- Sarah McDonald (Portlaoise)
- Lucy Gaffney (Killeshin)
- Ciara Malone (Killeshin)
- Cara English (Killeshin)
- Emma Malone (Killeshin)
- Laura Whelan (The Heath)
- Chelsey Dooley (Killeshin)
- Katie Grant (The Heath)
- Anna Mulligan (Portlaoise)
And the Player of the Year awards were:
Junior – Cara English (Killeshin)
Intermediate – Mags McEvoy (Graiguecullen)
Senior – Fiona Dooley (Portlaoise)
Laois Minor Player of the Year – Lara Culleton (Portlaoise) and Mia Branagan (Graiguecullen)
Laois Minor Players’ Player of the Year – Katie O’Reilly (St Brigid’s) and Kathlyn Timmons (Graiguecullen)
Laois Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year – Eimear Barry (Shanahoe)
Laois Intermediate Player of the Year – Andrea Moran (Ballyroan)
You can check out a selection of Paul Dargan’s images below.
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