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The Friends of Portlaoise Hospital wish to extend their heartfelt thanks to the Road to Recovery team for their exceptional fundraising through their Road...
Two venues, Preston House and the Palace Bar, were a buzz with banter, lilting with laughter, sizzling with songs and stories and poets in...
A Laois DJ is set to host an all day DJ set in aid of men's mental health charity Movember this weekend.
Robbie Purcell, from...
Excitement is building in one part of Laois as a teenager is set to represent Ireland on the international stage in gymnastics.
14-year-old Lauren Kelly,...
We're heading towards the end of the season but the matches continue thick and fast.
This week sees more U-20 football and hurling action take...
A former Laois footballer has been appointed as an Engagement and Development Officer (EDO) by the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).
The GPA say that they...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Edmund (Eamonn) Rafter
Knockanoran, Durrow, Laois
Eamonn MCC (retired) in his 95th year has passed away peacefully...
Five schools in Laois are set to benefit from funding as part of the Climate Action Summer Works Scheme.
So says Fine Gael TD Willie...
Laois County Council has announced that Christmas will officially kick off in Portlaoise this week.
These festive celebrations 'promise something for everyone from music and...
History was made last week as for just the tenth time in the entire existence of the state, a president was inaugurated.
President Catherine Connolly...
The Laois GAA award winners for the 2025 season have been announced this morning – with 19 handed out.
The only two awards that have...
Aimee Collier had a weekend to remember as she was named PWC Premier Junior Camogie Player of the Year on Saturday evening in Croke...
The Laois Hurling Podcast is brought to you in association with the LOETB
Our latest Podcast is here and we have plenty to talk about...
Students from class 3F at Portlaoise College have proudly completed an impactful and thought-provoking community action project focused on rights and responsibilities as part...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Frank Conway
Kilminchy, Portlaoise, Laois/Ennistymon, Clare
Frank Conway, Colliers Lane, Kilminchy, Portlaoise and late of Ennistymon, Co....
The Laois senior football championship will be reduced to 12 teams over a two-year period after a proposal about a restructure received considerable support...
Sarah Anne Fitzgerald has had quite the few weeks.
She guided her club Camross to Laois Intermediate glory four weeks and since then, she’s played...
Abbeyleix Gardai launched their annual fundraising event in aid of Special Olympics Ireland recently.
Gardai attached to Abbeyleix and Portlaoise Garda Stations are holding a...
A Laois TD has called on long awaited flood relief schemes for Mountmellick and Portarlington to be accelerated following scenes of flooding last Friday.
Heavy...
Laois Fine Gael TD Willie Aird has welcomed the Government’s commitment to securing a future for the Leprino Foods facility in Portlaoise.
This is following...
The Laois hurlers will play in the third tier of the National League in 2026, though one element of novelty will be an away...
Victorious Camross manager Arien Delaney was beaming with pride on Sunday afternoon as his side were crowned AIB Leinster Club Intermediate Camogie champions in...
The work of GAA clubs towards the Irish language was in the spotlight in Croke Park on November 14 when Fondúireacht Sheosaimh Mhic Dhonncha...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Noel Archbold
Ryevale Lawns, Leixlip, Kildare/Portlaoise, Laois
Archbold, Noel, Ryevale Lawns, Leixlip, Co. Kildare and late of...
Camross 5-7 Na Fianna (Meath) 1-7
Leinster Club Intermediate Camogie Championship Final
Camross and Na Fianna travelled to SETU Carlow on a sunny Sunday afternoon to...
All our Laois GAA club championship coverage is brought to you in association with Mulhall’s SuperValu, Portlaoise
Portarlington 0-14 Naomh Mairtín (Louth) 1-8
Leinster Club SFC...
Abbeyleix 5-17 Ballyfin Mountrath 1-14
Laois U-20 HC Group A Round 3
Abbeyleix sealed their spot in the semi-finals of the Laois U-20 Hurling Championship this...
The year rolls on, and so to does the GAA season.
We don't have the same volume of fixtures as we had previously but there...
At this week’s meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport, Laois TD William Aird called on Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to take Compulsory...
Leinster Club SFC - Portarlington v Naomh Mairtín (Louth)
In Integral GAA grounds in Drogheda at 1.30pm
The Portarlington footballers break new ground again this afternoon...
