Cork 3-26 Laois 0-6
Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie championship
Laois were unable to claw back the points against division two league winners Cork this evening in Cork Camogie grounds, with corner forward Rachel O'Callaghan racking up a total of 3-1...
Laois camogie begin their All-Ireland intermediate championship campaign against Cork at 5pm this evening.
Laois were orignally meant to play Wexford in the opening round of the championship last weekend, but Wexford dropped out of the intermediate competition.
Laois manager David...
Three Laois girls are competing in the finals of the highest grade of national ladies soccer.
Orla Whelan from Rosenallis and Killenard's Neala Byrne have made it through to the Gaynor Cup final with the Midlands U14 squad, while Emily Corbet...
The sun was splitting the rocks as the young, old and even some comic book characters took it the sights and sounds of this year's Old Fort festival.
Music acts, street theatre, food vendors and medieval street theatre are all...
Good Week, Bad Week is our newest LaoisToday segment, where we look at who has had good weeks and bad weeks, around the county.
To see who has had a good or bad week, we look at different news stories...
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The Laois footballers will look to cause one of the biggest shocks in the history of the GAA in Croke Park tomorrow when they take on a Dublin...
Clonaslee-St Manman's 2-9 Graiguecullen 2-9
ACFL Division 4 Final 2009
A late Lee Salter penalty snatched a draw for Graiguecullen in this en-trawling Division 4 final in Bill Delaney Park Stradbally nine years ago.
Salter's goal, which he scored at the second...
Laois camogie begin their All-Ireland intermediate championship campaign against Cork this weekend.
Laois were orignally meant to play Wexford in the opening round of the championship last weekend, but Wexford dropped out of the intermediate competition.
Laois manager David Dunning says...
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In our running coverage of the Leinster final, we have decided to interview the most important people behind some of the Laois footballers - their mammies.
These women have...
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard,...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
David Bradish
The Course, Durrow, Laois
The death has taken place of David Bradish, The Course, Durrow on Friday, June 22.
Peacefully in the loving care of the nurses and...
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The flags are up - on business, homes, cars and schools - and the big day is almost upon us.
The Laois footballers take on Dublin in Sunday's Leinster...
A dark fantasy novel set in Laois will be fittingly launched in the county town on Saturday during Celtic Con, the midland comic convention.
The launch will take place at 5.30 pm in O'Loughlin's Hotel on Saturday June 21 during...
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If there's one part of the county where they know what it's like to cause a massive shock in a big final, it's Stradbally.
They'll never forget their stunning...
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Emo's Darren Strong and Crettyard's Evan O'Carroll have been named in the Laois starting team for Sunday's Leinster final against Dublin in Croke Park.
Strong comes into defence in...
It was a glorious evening for a game and there was a busy schedule of fixtures in Laois this evening.
Here's all the results we have to hand.
Laois Shopping Centre ACHL Division 1 Relegation Playoff
Abbeyleix 1-23 Portlaoise 1-11 - Report...
Abbeyleix 1-23 Portlaoise 1-11
Laois Shopping Centre ACHL Division 1 Playoff
Abbeyleiix preserved their ACHL Division 1 place for the 2019 season thanks to a big win over Portlaoise in Colt this evening.
Played in glorious sunshine, the winner of this relegation...
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Back in the mid 2000s, big games in Croke Park were the definition of days out in the summer for Laois football supporters.
While the hysteria of 2003 was...
This promises to be a great event.
To celebrate Independent Beer Week, David and Lisa Walsh-Kemmis are hosting an event at the home of the award-winning Ballykilcavan beers, just outside Stradbally on Saturday June 23 at 7pm.
David explains: “Independent Beer...
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Having six children under seven years old is incredible. Having three sets of twins under seven is extraordinary.
Having three sets of twins under the age of seven who...
A crash in Laois has resulted in a man being airlifted to hospital from a busy Portlaoise road this Friday afternoon.
The man was the sole occupant of the car on the stretch of the L2117 bog road at Kyletalesha,...
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Gaelscoil Phortlaoise was given its own personal concert today as the Horahan brothers aired their latest song - the 'Laois Anthem' - at the school.
Pupils nearly blew the...
Footing turf on the bog. Always hardship, often misery and sometimes great craic.
Anyone who has ever spent a day at it will relate to some of this.
And once again our funnyman Mark Doheny has come up with this list:
1...
One of Laois's largest towns has become a 'hub' for organised crime, according to a report in the Irish Independent.
It claims that specialist undercover gardaí have been working in Portarlington for more than six months and a number of...
It’ll be an interesting summer for Portlaois student, Precious Abebe as she’s set to see the notorious US justice system from the inside.
Precious, who is now studying law at Griffith College in Dublin, has been chosen as a Brehon...
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Niall Donoher and Colm Begley are well established as two of the senior members of the Laois senior football team.
But for Courtwood's Niall Donoher, this will be his...
Gardai in Portlaoise are investigating after almost €10,000 worth of industrial tools were stolen this week in Portlaoise - and recovered later in a different part of town.
The Garda Detective unit in Portlaoise are carrying out investigations and envisage...
Drowning fears have been raised over the pond at the back of the IDA offices in Portlaoise.
Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley had a motion before the Portlaoise Municipal District meeting requesting the council to put whatever measures are necessary in...
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Former Laois footballer David Sweeney has long been affiliated with football in Dublin.
The Portarlington man captained Laois to win the U-21 Leinster final against Meath in 1994 and in...
Oh the excitement is building and we are just two days out from the big one on Sunday.
Two Laois teams are in action this weekend and we will have coverage of each of them.
We have picked out the following...
