The first time I ever attended the Osorry Show. It couldn't have been a nicer day for it.
A sunny Sunday afternoon in July, Steven and I travelled to Rathdowney to cover the annual show.
I wasn't 100% sure what to...
In September, it was revealed by LaoisToday that John Surgue would be taking the reigns as Laois Senior Football manager.
Alan Hartnett followed up on this three weeks later by revealing the members of Kerry man's backroom team.
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More than three...
This Hen Party from Mountmellick went viral after dressing up as the set of the Navitity scene this August.
Mary Rose Melia and her friends set off from Mountmellick down to Carrick-on-Shannon with their shepards, angels, cows and donkeys in...
Coming up to the Leaving Cert this year, LaoisToday employed the help of Scoil Chríost Rí student Isabel Dwyer, to make an online leaving cert diary.
Isabel wrote a series of diary entries marking her hopes, trials and tribulations over...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Gerard Phelan
Ennisag, Stoneyford, Kilkenny/Rathdowney, Laois
Gerard Phelan, Kingsriver Community, Ennisag, Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny and formerly Daly Terrace, Rathdowney, Co. Laois. Peacefully at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. December 25th...
We're a nostalgic sort in Ireland and that is no different in Laois.
And most of us love to look back at our school days.
We tried to get one of these lists from each of the schools and this one...
Arles-Kilcruise forward David Conway will begin this season on the sidelines after recently undergoing knee surgery.
The Laois sharpshooter says he played most of last season with the injury and is hoping to come back revitalized midway through the league.
He...
In this interview for 'That was My Year', we sat down with Laois hurling captain Ross King.
Ross was recently announced as the Laois Senior hurling captain for a second year running and is hoping that Laois make it to...
Just as it does every St Stephen's Day, the town of Abbeyleix was taken over by horses, hounds and horsemen and women today for the annual Laois Hunt event.
And as well as those taking part, there were many interested...
These lists proved to be extremely popular when we launched LaoisToday.
This one is about memories from Heywood Community School in Ballinakill.
Be sure to let us know if there's anything we left out.
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You’re constantly told that your schooldays are the...
This was just brilliant. In July, two Laois teenagers could find nowhere better for a kiss than outside the Courthouse on Main Street in Portlaoise while RTE reporter Ciaran Mulloolly was trying to do his piece to camera for...
Back in February, a popular Portlaoise couple packed up their lives and headed off to South Africa.
Jim and Esther McCormack are now living happily near Cape Town and before they left, we caught up with them.
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This Monday retired Portlaoise...
Where do I even begin on this one ...
This, indeed, was a big day for both Clough-Ballacolla and Camross. All of the LaoisToday team were out in force to give the best coverage of the day on all of...
In July of this year, Alan Hartnett made up his list of sixteen young players to look out for in the Senior football championship.
The list includes players from every club, with Ballyfin Gaels' Robert Tyrell and Ballyroan-Abbey's Diarmuid Whelan...
In March of this year, Alan Hartnett sat down with renowned strength and conditioning coach Alan Malone to talk about his involvement in teams across the country.
So far Malone has taken jobs with teams across Laois, Kilkenny and...
There were huge changes made to championship this year, with one of them being that Laois will not play in the Leinster championship but in a Tier 2 championship next year.
Steven Miller wrote about how the championship structure would...
It was our golden moment. On July 20 2003 Laois beat Kildare in a Leinster final that will go down as one of the greatest days in every Laois supporter's life.
For the fourteen year anniversary, we decided to commemerate...
Eoghan Masterson is one Portlaoise man who has an had extremely successful year.
He has returned from injury to captain Connacht twice and next year hopes he gain his first Irish cap.
Eoghan also managed to nab a place on our...
In April of this year, Jack Nolan gave a passionate response to Laois's shock loss against neighbours Offaly in the Allianz Football League Division 3.
This meant that Laois dropped down a division and Jack stated no-one seemed to care...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Helen Kelly (née O'Brien)
St.Fintans Terrace, Durrow, Laois
Funeral arrangements later.
Sadie (Sarah) Winterbotham (née Martyn)
Bunclody, Wexford/Gorey, Wexford/Avoca, Wicklow/Abbeyleix, Laois
Sadie (Sarah) Winterbotham (née Martyn), formerly Abbeyleix, Avoca, Gorey, Bunclody &...
Laois legend Pat Critchley called time on his 32-year teaching career this summer. Over the past 32 years, he worked successfully as a PE teacher, English teacher, assistant principal and year head.
For the last 19 years of his career,...
It's always huge news when someone your area, or even near your area, makes a name for themselves internationally.
That's exactly what happened to former Knockbeg student Illan Power, the mogul who has had more business ventures than we've had...
In July we brought you news of a dramatic fire at a house in Portlaoise.
Readers contacted us with video footage of the blaze at the premises which was thankfully unoccupied at the time and there was no injuries.
However, it...
We all love a good news story and this certainly falls into that category.
A woman from Portlaoise shed an incredible amount of weight and went on to run a Mini Marathon.
And back in June, we caught up with her...
On Friday September 1 this year, I decided to take a trip up to my old primary school of Rath NS as they began the new school term.
Rath NS, once a very small rural school, has been growing rapidly...
It just wouldn't be an Irish Christmas without these things.
From fights with family members, taking out the precious 'good cutlery' or watching Fr Ted marathons on TV, these 18 things that are just essential for an Irish Christmas.
1 -...
The infinitely wise Two Broke Divas imparted their knowledge of tanning over the summer.
And as silly season is approaching, this advice is essential to getting your tan perfect for those Christmas nights out.
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This was a long time coming, but...
Laois Abroad is a series that focuses on Laois natives who have made travelled or built their lives overseas.
So far the series has covered the United Arab Emirates, Austraila, San Francisco, New York, Canada and South Africa.
This interview looked...
Back in March, we sat down and put our heads together to come up with the first of our many lists.
This one was all about Twitter and although these were the 25 we came up with back then, you...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Philomena Birney
Rushall, Mountrath, Laois
Philomena Birney, Rushall, Mountrath, Co. Laois. December 21st 2017. Peacefully at her residence. Deeply regretted by her partner Jim, children David, Stephany, Casha and...
