FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 2 – Winners
Portlaoise 1-16 Graiguecullen 0-9
Laois Shopping Centre JFC Rd 2 – Winners
Park-Ratheniska 3-15 Camross 0-3
Laois Shopping Centre JFC Rd 2 – Qualifier
The Harps received a walkover from Errill
The Heath 0-16 Portarlington...
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Park-Ratheniska 2-15 Camross 0-3
Laois Shopping Centre JFC 'A' Round 2 Winners
Park-Ratheniska versus Camross. Not a fixture you would usually see but a junior fixture nonetheless. Some excellent displays from Darragh Nolan,...
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Graiguecullen 0-9 Portlaoise 1-16
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 2 Winners
Can anyone stop Portlaoise? It's the perennial question in Laois football and as The Town seek to retain their title and an 11th...
It's another busy night of championship action - but then again, what summer's evening isn't?
In the senior football championship, round 1 winners Portlaoise and Graiguecullen will face-off in O'Moore Park at 7.45pm.
There is also plenty of action in the...
Four Laois organisations have been named as winners in the first ever National Lottery Good Causes Awards.
Kolbe Special School, St Fintan's GAA Club Mountrath, Mountmellick Development Association and the Dunamaise Arts Centre are among the national award winners.
Sport: St Fintan’s...
Slowly, but surely, the wheat is being separated from the chaff and the picture is becoming clearer in the Laois hurling championships.
A couple of surprise results in Round 2 sees a numberof changes in our rankings - and it...
Three Laois women are taking to the world stage of the UEFA Champions League for their Wexford Youths side.
Kylie Murphy, Orla Casey and Caimh Gray (formerly Dollard) are all lining out for the Wexford Youths as they take on...
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Another exciting new act has been announced for Electric Picnic - one that will see a human net, with the help and addition of 55 Irish volunteers, go 40 foot above the...
Laois TD Sean Fleming estimates that there are at least 300 families in Laois who received letters from Permanent TSB saying that their mortgages are being sold to the Vulture Fund, Loan Star.
"In recent days I have been inundated...
The effects of the wildfire which raged over the Slieve Blooms at the beginning of July is still evident in much of the mountain.
During the fire, road closures were put in place around the area and the Air Corps...
It is a busy Friday evening of GAA action, with a big game down for decision in the senior championship, and four games to be played in the Junior 'A' championship.
We see the clash of the champions and one...
It's five o'clock somewhere, right?
The Midlands Park Hotel are now bringing bottomless brunches to Laois.
The Portlaoise hotel are the first to bring the trend to Laois, and will be launching their bottomless brunches on Saturday, August 18 and will...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Patrick (Pat) Doyle
Old Caragh Court, Kildare / Baldoyle, Dublin / Stradbally, Laois
Retired member of An Garda Síochana. Formerly of Grange Abbey Road, Baldoyle, Dublin 13 and Stradbally,...
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Just like the Premier League across the water, the local soccer season in the midlands gets underway this weekend with the opening round of fixtures across the divisions in the CCFL.
A number of Laois clubs are in action with...
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Annanough 2-14 Graiguecullen 1-13
Laois Shopping Centre JFC 'A' Round 2 Winners
Annanough booked their place in the Laois JFC 'A' quarter-finals thanks to a four-point win over Graiguecullen in Vicarstown this evening.
In...
Another championship weekend got underway this evening with games across the top three tiers of Laois club football.
Crettyard held off the challenge of Ballyfin in the SFC in O'Moore Park, Courtwood thumped Timahoe in the IFC in Ratheniska, while...
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Courtwood 3-14 Timahoe 1-8
Laois Shopping Centre IFC Round 2 Winners
Courtwood set the stall for a comprehensive victory over Timahoe right from the off, with a Conor Hogan goal in the first...
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Crettyard Gaels 0-14 Ballyfin Gaels 0-11
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 2 Losers
Two of the lower-ranked teams met in the Laois SFC this evening in O'Moore Park but it's Crettyard Gaels that go...
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We're set for a very busy night of championship football action across Laois tonight.
There are four games set to kick-off at 7.15pm. Courtwood and Timahoe face off in the winner's section in...
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The Salty Dog has once again to come life - if 'life' is the right word for the kind of riff-raff that frequent this miscreant port.
The shipwreck is ready - in all...
The Laois Ladies are out in the All-Ireland quarter-final against Roscommon this Saturday, and manager Kevin Doogue knows his side cannot afford to be complacent against the Connacht champions.
"I suppose we lost our edge when we knew we were...
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The Laois football Strength and Conditioning (S&C) coach picked up an incredible third Irish golfing championship win yesterday on Wednesday, August 8.
Robbie Cannon has worked as the S&C coach for Laois senior, minor and U20 footballers this year and...
Clement Herron Real Estate is pleased to welcome this excellent three-bedroom property to the sales market.
This home benefits from a surprisingly large secure garden to the rear and also from a new oil fired heating system, two solid fuel...
Heywood Community School upped the style stakes at their debs last night.
Crowds of proud mammies, younger siblings and eager onlookers gathered at the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel, as is now tradition, to wave off the young debutantes.
Debs season is now...
Laois TD Brain Stanley has hit out and said that access to the postal network, ‘should not be a geographical lottery'.
Responding to the announcement by An Post that 161 Post Offices will be closed as part of a voluntary...
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After a hectic few weeks of festivals, things are a little quieter in Laois this weekend but there are a still lot of things to do throughout the county.
Heritage week begins next...
There are five games down for decision tonight, with a big senior clash in O'Moore Park, a clash of two favourites in the intermediate championship and three tight battles in the Junior 'A' grade.
This week marks the round two...
Heritage Week promises to take the country by storm again this year - and there are a host of activities around Laois, beginning on August 18 and running until August 26.
There is something for everyone, whether you're into wildlife...
