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While Laois recorded an immense victory in the Leinster semi-final over Wexford, a place in Leinster final didn't always look certain for the O'Moore women.
They trailed nine points to four at...
Are you in the market to buy a house? Are you starting out and looking for your first home?
Clement Herron Real Estate in Portlaoise have a number of properties on their books - and these featured properties could include...
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The final countdown is well and truly on. The Laois senior footballers take on Dublin in the Leinster final in Croke Park on Sunday at 4pm in what...
Always keen to keep ahead of the curve, Laois Pharmacy in Lyster Square in Portlaoise has recently launched a new service where customers can send presciptions to the shop quickly and easily using WhatsApp.
It's a novel way to interact with their...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Andrew Doogue
Clonad, Portlaoise, Laois
Andrew (Andy) Doogue, Clonad, Portlaoise, Co.Laois. - Died 16th June 2018 at St. Vincent's Hospital Mountmellick. Funeral details to follow
Mary Buggy
10 The Green, Kilminchy,...
It was a very busy Sunday on the GAA front.
The Laois Ladies reached the Leinster Intermediate football final in the afternoon and earlier that morning, we had one game in Division 1 of the football league.
Portarlington moved out of...
Tonight saw the conslusion of the round robin phase of the ACHL Division 1 - and almost nothing has been decided.
Heading in tonight's round, Rathdowney-Errill sat top of the table having played all of their games with Clough-Ballacolla and...
Laois ended a 13-year wait for a Leinster final appearance in 1981 when a fine side under the management of Tom Darcy saw off Louth, Kildare and then Dublin to set up a provincial decider against Offaly.
The win over...
The end is now in sight. I can almost smell the freedom that so many leaving cert students now have. With two exams, I'm almost there.
Last week was perhaps the most intensive one. Maths paper two, both Irish papers,...
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Laois 2-11 Wexford 1-13
Ladies Leinster Intermediate Football Championship Semi Final
The Laois Ladies have a Leinster final to look forward to after Kevin Doogue's side produced a stunning second half comeback to...
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Assaulted with hurls
Gardai investigating after two men were viciously assaulted with hurls in Laois
Portlaoise women help set ‘skinny dip’ world record for charity
A number of Laois women were among those who set a new Guinness World Record for...
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The Laois men aren’t the only team vying for Leinster glory in the next few weeks.
The Laois Ladies are out in the intermediate Leinster semi-final against Wexford today in Bellefield GAA...
Kyle 0-10 Timahoe 0-9
ACHL Division 4 Hurling Final 2009
This time nine years ago, Kyle and Timahoe battled it out in an epic Division 4 hurling final in Abbeyleix.
In the end, it was Kyle's superior firepower from the bench that...
On this week's Property Watch, we are looking at houses which can be bought at the higher end of the market, in or around €300,000.
Prices achieved for houses around the county only rarely go over the €300,000 mark, with...
Graiguecullen and Laois footballer Danny O'Reilly has returned to light training following a vicious assault that left him fighting for his life at the beginning of April.
O’Reilly was seriously injured following an incident at the Potato Market in Carlow...
Roisin Comerford is certainly the definition of a small town girl doing well in the big city.
Roisin's mother Ann Martyn owns Centra in Mountrath and is the National President of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association, and Roisin hasn't...
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The Laois men aren't the only team vying for Leinster glory in the next few weeks.
The Laois Ladies are out in the intermediate Leinster semi-final against Wexford this Sunday in Bellefield...
A key role with a leading fashion designer, the opportunity to work with one of the county's biggest car dealers and a vacancy with a vibrant young solicitor's practice are among this week's job vacancies as advertised on LaoisToday.
Barry...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Mary Buggy
10 The Green, Kilminchy, Portlaoise/Timahoe, Laois
Formerly of Kyle, Timahoe, Co. Laois. Funeral details later.
Alice Feery (née McDonald)
59 Pattison Estate, Mountmellick, Laois
Died peacefully at the Regional Hospital...
The HSE should be broken up along the lines of the old health boards, the monthly meeting of Laois County Council heard.
Cllr Willie Aird had a motion before the meeting requestiong the Minister for Health to "restructure the HSE...
Two Laois teams were knocked out of their respective Leinster championship campaigns today - the minor hurlers beaten by Offaly in Tullamore while the U-20s went down to Meath in Navan.
Closer to home there was a full round of...
Only eight times in the last 50 years have the Laois senior football team reached a Leinster final and, as we begin our countdown to next week's decider between Laois and Dublin, we look back on some of the...
There's nothing like the build-up to a big game and O'Moore Park was a hive of activity this evening as the Laois players mingled with supporters ahead of next Sunday's Leinster final.
With Laois in a first provincial decider in...
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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Laois 0-13 Meath 2-13
The Laois U-20s are out of the Leinster championship after they lost out to Meath in Navan this afternoon.
Billy O'Loughlin's charges went into the game knowing only a win...
Laois Twitter really outperformed itself this week, and we have all the best and brightest Tweets coming to you in our weekly round-up.
Admittedly, most of the Tweets are football-orientated, but after Laois's won the Leinster semi-final last weekend -...
Offaly 2-19 Laois 1-14
Leinster MHC quarter-final
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The Laois minor hurlers have been knocked out of the Leinster championship after going down to Offaly in Bord na Mona O'Connor Park this afternoon.
Offaly captain Cathal...
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The hectic schedule continues. While the Laois senior hurlers are out of the championship and the Laois footballers have a weekend off ahead of next Sunday's Leinster final, there's still a busy...
There was plenty of ceol, caint agus craic in Gaelscoil Phortlaoise as they raised their sixth Green School Flag on Friday, June 15 2018.
A special celebrity guest was present to see the Flag for global citizenship today. TG4 weather...
A busy N80 road junction in Laois needs more works even after 'extensive' work was carried out on it in 2017.
The Nyra junction on the N80 outside Mountmellick on the Tullamore Road had seen four accidents over the last...
