The U-21 football finals take place tonight and the 'A' final sees Portarlington up against Graiguecullen.
Yesterday, Trevor Collins stepped up to the plate for Graigue but today is the turn of Diarmuid Bennett for Port to take our My...
Portlaoise 2-12 Ballyroan-Abbey 0-3
Midlands Park Hotel U-13 Football Championship Final
Portlaoise were crowned U-13 football champions following a resounding fifteen point victory over Ballyroan-Abbey in the Training Centre on Friday evening.
The Town held a four point lead at half time...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Canice Carroll
Garryduff, Clough, Ballacolla, Laois
Carroll, Garryduff, Clough, Ballacolla, Co. Laois. November 17th 2017, peacefully at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. Canice, deeply regretted by his sisters Kathleen and...
The local group fighting to prevent the downgrading of services at Portlaoise Hospital are taking their campaign to towns around the county next week with a series of meetings planned.
The likelihood is that a march will take place before...
A former Portlaoise AFC player led out the Republic of Ireland in a friendly during the week.
Colin Conroy, who now plays with St Kevin's Boys in Dublin, captained Ireland against Poland in two international games this week.
The talented midfielder...
Sinn Feinn TD Brian Stanley says that closing Portlaoise Hospital's A&E unit is as good as signing the death warrants of Laois patients.
He has challenged TD Charlie Flanagan and his party Fine Gael not to do it.
He said: "I...
A prominent Laois hurler has made the decision to switch codes for the 2018 season.
New Laois manager John Sugrue has confirmed that Slieve Bloom's Ben Conroy has decided to throw his lot in with the footballers for the coming...
There has been a major breakthrough in the case of a woman in Laois who been on hunger strike since October 24.
Kathryn Nelson, who is originally from Athy, has been living in Clough, Ballacolla, for about the last year...
There were dramatic scenes in Stradbally last night as the Garda helicopter was dispatched following the discovery of a van with copper cables last night.
The incident began at 9.50pm last night when the Divisional task force were called out...
A Sinn Féin report into the JobPath job activation scheme has found that Laois participants have had their confidence destroyed, with TD Brian Stanley calling for the scrapping of the initiative.
“The JobPath Scheme participants are meant to receive intensive...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
David Hackett
Kildare Town, Kildare/Portlaoise, Laois
Suddenly. Much loved father of Ruth, Laura, Ian, Alan and Hugh and brother of Rosanna, Philip and Christopher. Sadly missed and deeply mourned...
A man was assaulted near the playground in Ballylinan, ending up in hospital with a broken ankle and a fracture over his eye, leading for calls for more lighting to be installed in the area by Cllr Ben Brennan...
Beaten Laois senior hurling finalists Clough-Ballacolla are in the market for a new manager following the decision of their 2017 boss Tommy Buggy to step aside due to business committments.
Castlecomer native Buggy - who recently retired from his job...
In case you haven't noticed, Winter has arrived.
The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer and it's getting colder all the time.
There's frost on your car when you wake up and ice on the roads when you...
Portarlington-based Laois County Councillor Aidan Mullins says "there are enough things in Portarlington screaming out for funding" without having €1million ring-fenced for a relief road which he says "will never be built".
Cllr Mullins highlighted a number of reasons why...
After a brief sabbatical, our My Club and I segment is back.
The U-21 football finals bring the curtain down on the GAA season in Laois on Saturday night.
The A final sees Graiguecullen do battle with Portarlington in O'Moore Park...
St Fergal's Rathdowney have become the first school in Laois to create a 'safe space' for the LGBTI+ community.
On Tuesday, they had the official launch of St Fergal's College LGBTI+ Social Group which has been called the 'Rainbow Flag'.
The driving force...
Revenue officers seized 8kg of cannabis, with an estimated value of €160,000, in the Mail Centre in Portlaoise today.
The Mail Centre's detector dog - a black labrador called Stella - sniffed out the a parcel that had been sent...
A complex explosive device has been made safe close to the Laois/Carlow border.
The device was discovered just a number of miles from Killeshin, close to the N80 in Co Carlow.
The Defence Forces has confirmed it deployed an Army Bomb...
Mountrath Community School 2-11 St Brendan's Birr 0-10
Top Oil Leinster Post Primary School Junior Huring A1 ‘Rest of Leinster’ Final
Mountrath CS were crowned Junior A1 'Rest of Leinster' hurling champions in Kilcormac this afternoon.
The side, managed by Christy Coughlan,...
An apprentice at Bankz Hair Salon in Portlaoise has beaten off competition from across Ireland as one of four young hairdressers to be chosen on ‘Star Team Ireland’.
Paula Flanagan was one of hundreds of hopefuls who started out in...
A former Cistercian College Roscrea student has been missing for two weeks.
Stephen Cullinan, 25, from Ballymackey, Nenagh, has been missing from Castletroy, Limerick, since November 3.
Mr Cullinan is described as 5ft 11in, of medium build with short, fair hair.
He was last seen...
There are four names now confirmed for the position of the County Board Chairman which will be filled at Convention on December 4.
We previously revealed that three men had put themselves forward for the role, Seán Mortimer, Peter O'Neill...
The Chief Executive of the Industrial Development Authority will 'visit Laois over the next couple of months', it has been revealed.
Martin Shanahan will come to the O'Moore County for a meeting with public representatives just months after a report...
There are fears that family members won’t be able to bury their loved ones in the cemetery in Clonaslee.
“Plots are not being allocated,” Cllr David Goodwin told the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District meeting today (Thursday).
“It’s not being managed,” he explained...
A total of 1,300 people are set to take part in a charity race, the Gingerbread Run in Portarlington on Sunday.
Each year the event is getting bigger and has more than doubled in size in recent years.
This year there...
The proposed closure of accident and emergency services in Portlaoise will undoubtedly put lives at risk, according to Deputy Fiona O’Loughlin.
Following media reports of a proposal put to the HSE to downgrade emergency trauma services at Portlaoise hospital, Deputy...
A 68-year-old woman living in Laois is in her fourth week of a hunger strike as she cannot get the state pension.
Kathryn Nelson, who is originally from Athy, has been living in Clough, Ballacolla, for about the last year...
The GAA might be finishing up in Laois for the winter but there's still plenty happening around the county in music, quizzes and a concert or two.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Golf Outing
Stradbally GAA club are holding their annual golf outing at...
The draws have been made for the Leinster minor and U-20 football plus U-21 hurling championships.
These were made at a Leinster Council meeting last night where it was also agreed to defer the draw for the minor hurling championship...
