Here is this week's Laois GAA fixtures.
Monday, 9th April
Midlands Park Hotel Under-15 Hurling League Division 1 Round 2
Castletown Slieve Bloom V Clough-Ballacolla 6.30pm
Abbeyleix St Lazarians V Borris in Ossory Kilcotton 6.30pm
Rathdowney Errill V Rosenallis 6.30pm
Midlands Park Hotel Under-15 Hurling...
Alison Holmes is something of a legend in these parts as it is simply hard to comprehend all of the different things she does in her life.
Currently a lecturer in University of Limerick, as well as having a physiotherapy...
It's the local town for many Laois people and this Thursday Red Balloons will line the main thoroughfare of Athy to celebrate Athy Traders Red Balloon event.
In an effort to get people to come in and visit the fantastic shops...
The sun was shining in Portarlington for the final event in this year's road series which was hosted by St Michael's Athletics Club on Sunday.
The juvenile development races got the atmosphere going with some fantastic running in all categories.
The...
Laois 4-15 Offaly 1-11
Ladies U-16 Leinster 'B' Football Championship Round 2
Laois maintained their 100 per cent start in the U-16 championship with a convincing 13 point win over Offaly on Sunday in Stradbally.
Paul Mulhall's side enjoyed a three point...
North Midlands Falcons 19 Portlaoise 5
Leinster Ladies Rugby Division 4 Final
There was a strong Portarlington involvement with the North Midlands Falcons ladies rugby team that claimed Leinster honours in Naas on Sunday.
On a full day of ladies finals, Portlaoise...
Portarlington Further Education and Training Centre are holding an Open Morning this Thursday, April 12, from 10am to 2pm.
The courses are full time QQI and part-time component awards.
For further details you can email mmorrin@loetb.ie or visit www.portarlingtonaec.ie.
Return to...
Urgent investment is needed in paediatric rheumatology services to meet the needs of 1,200 children and young people living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in Ireland, it has been claimed.
According to Arthritis Ireland, around 23 children in Laois are currently...
With the evenings getting longer and the soccer season heading to its conclusion, there is a bumper week of games ahead.
See all of the fixtures below:
WEDNESDAY APRIL 11
All Games 6.30pm
Under 19 Premier Division:
Clongowes Wood v Edenderry Town
Tullamore Town v...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Patricia (Patty) O'Boyle (née Mellon)
"Woodview", Killeshin Road, Graiguecullen, Carlow / Laois
Patricia (Patty) O'Boyle died peacefully at the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin surrounded by her loving family. Beloved wife...
The Harps 0-16 Castletown 0-11
Laois Shopping Centre ACFL Division 1
The Harps hurlers sit on top of Division 1 of the league this evening after they continued their unbeaten start to the season thanks to a five-point win away to...
This week on our student series we meet with 23-year-old Raheen native Edel McEvoy.
Edel, who attended Mountrath Community School, went on to study Food Science in UCD and graduated last September.
She is currently studying an Masters in...
We are not into the second week of April and still soccer matches are falling victim to waterlogged pitches.
Across the three local league where Laois teams take part, a number of games were called off.
On Saturday, Mountmellick United's Division...
Laois 4-12 Sligo 2-12
Lild Ladies National Football League Division 2
Laois Ladies collected just their second win of the 2018 season today but it was enough to help them maintain their Division 2 league status for another year.
Kevin Doogue's side...
Kilkenny 2-10 Laois 3-5
Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League Division 2
Laois's hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Camogie league were ended this evening in Heywood when Kilkenny finished strong to record a two-point win.
Laois trailed by seven points...
Camross 3-17 Rathdowney-Errill 1-15
Laois Shopping Centre ACHL Division 1
Camross bounced back from last week's loss to Borris-Kilcotton thanks to an away win over Rathdowney-Errill this afternoon.
A Ross King goal from Ross King helped Rathdowney-Errill to a 1-9 to 1-7...
Two Laois teams have booked their place at the All-Ireland Feile hurling championships this summer following two pulsating finals this afternoon.
The A final was a rematch of the U-13 final from last year as neighbours Castletown-Slieve Bloom and Camross...
Abbeyleix 2-16 Borris-Kilcotton 3-17
Laois Shopping Centre ACHL Division 1
Borris-Kilcotton inflicted a third straight league defeat upon Abbeyleix this afternoon following an extremely high scoring affair.
Abbeyleix goalkeeper Enda Rowland ended the match with a remarkable tally of 2-5 but that...
NEWS
Daniel O'Reilly
The news schedule this week was dominated by distressing events that happened on Easter Monday in Carlow.
We broke the story late on Monday afternoon that a Laois man had been attacked in Carlow and the events continued to...
There was a time there when the Castletown hurlers ruled the landscape of Laois hurling, their story of dominance during the late 90s and early Noughties a remarkable one of a small club that came all the way from...
On this week's feature, we are going to have a look at agricultural land and in particular 10 acre fields. Large blocks of land are few and fair between around the county at the moment, but there is a...
Laois footballer Danny O'Reilly - who was assaulted in Carlow in the early hours of Easter Monday - has been released from St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny and has returned home.
The Graiguecullen man suffered serious head injuries following an...
This week is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week. And for the week that’s in it, I said I would share a big part of having Cystic Fibrosis entails. Hospital stays.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited chronic disease that primarily affects...
It has been an incredible journey for Zach Tuohy since the heart-wrenching scene when his father watched his young son board a plane on his own to embark on his Australian Rules odyssey.
His father Noel vividly recalls the moment...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Elizabeth (Nellie) Brophy
Ballyfin Road, Portlaoise, Laois
Died peacefully surrounded by her loving family at Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home. R.I.P Predeceased by her husband Paul & her daughter Margaret....
Laois people might have heard enough about Twitter over the last week or two. But it's still a platform that delivers some wonderfully witty or withering comments. And some thought-provoking ones too.
Here's our selection of some of the better...
Portlaoise 4-14 Ballylinan 2-4
Laois Shopping Centre ACFL Division 1A
In a repeat of last year's county final, Portlaoise proved far too strong for Ballylinan in Rathleague this evening.
Portlaoise had lost their opening game to St Joseph's but welcomed back their...
St Joseph's 0-11 Stradbally 0-9
ACFL Division 1A
St Joseph's reached the league final last year and they have made a blistering start to this campaign as they collected their second consecutive win.
The game, played in damp conditions in Bill Delaney...
There was 350 competitors, an army of stewards and marshals totalling almost 100 and many more spectators at the Portlaoise Leisure Centre today for the 10th annual Tri Laois organised by the local Trilogy Triathlon Club.
Blessed with decent weather...
They're one of the top underage clubs in the county and St Paul's GAA celebrated in style at their Dinner Dance in the Midlands Park Hotel on Friday night.
The Courtwood-Emo combination, which also includes players from The Rock at...
