All roads led to Abbeyleix last Sunday for the second day of cross country racing, at the 2017 Downey’s Nissan/Laois Athletics Intermediate Championships.
As well as the Men’s and Women’s races, scheduled for the end of the day, there was...
Laois County Council and An Garda Siochana met this morning and are advising businesses to close up for the day and send their workers hom with winds of over 80km/hr anticipated from 11am until early on Tuesday.
Ex-Hurricane Ophelia is...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Beth Bennett (née McEvoy)
O’Moores Forest, Mountmellick, Laois
Died October 13th 2017, peacefully after a short illness. Predesceesed by her loving son Thomas and her brother Martin. Dear mother...
All Laois schools will be closed tomorrow as Hurricane Ophelia barrels towards the country.
Met Eireann has upgraded their weather warning for all counties to Status Red - which is the highest weather alert it can issue.
They say that this will...
With all the various county championships coming to a conclusion around the province, Leinster club competitions in both hurling and football are beginning to take shape.
The Portlaoise footballers will make the short trip to Tullamore on Sunday, October 29...
Portlaoise manager Malachy McNulty revealed that he wanted to 'run for the hills' after Stradbally stopped his side from doing ten in a row last year.
But the former defender says that the thought lasted for about an hour before...
It was another busy day of sport across a number of codes with games down for decision in basketball, GAA, rugby and soccer.
Laois Athletics also hosted their latest day of their country cross country championships in Abbeyleix and we'll...
Portlaoise 3-13 Ballylinan 0-10
Laois Shopping Centre Senior Football Championship Final
Portlaoise recovered from a slow start to claim the Jack Delaney Cup for the 33rd time in O'Moore Park this afternoon.
Malachy McNulty's charges were three points down midway through the...
Laois County Council have issued a warning to people as Hurricane Ophelia is set to hit the county.
Hurricane Ophelia is expected to transition to a post tropical storm as it approaches our shores on Monday.
Mean wind speeds between 65 and...
A man had a lucky escape when he narrowly avoided being hit by an iron bar in the early hours of Sunday morning in Mountmellick.
The incident occurred at Lord Edward Street in the town.
A man was approached by another...
Emo-Courtwood-The Rock 3-14 Stradbally Parish Gaels 2-3
Laois U-17 'A' FC Final
Emo-Courtwood-The Rock overcame Stradbally Parish Gaels today in the U-17 'A' Football Championship Final with a comprehensive win as they claimed a 15 point victory. Niall Dunne and Matthew...
Four people were arrested in Clonaslee in the early hours of this morning following a frantic Garda chase from Tullamore that ended with a jeep colliding with a tree.
The incident happened after Gardai chased a Suzuki jeep from Tullamore...
It's here, the biggest day of the year in Laois club football.
A year on from being denied their 10th title in a row by Stradbally - in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable - Portlaoise are back in the county...
There were dramatic scenes earlier this afternoon when fire units from Laois were called to deal with a bus on fire on the M7 Motorway.
Units from Portlaoise and Mountrath received a call at approx 1PM today for a bus...
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Final
Ballylinan v Portlaoise in O'Moore Park at 3.45pm. Referee: John Flynn (The Rock)
The Irish folk group The High Kings have a song called Fields of Glory that seems relevant on a day like today.
It's the big day on the...
Kia is on a bit of a roll with the launch of the Stonic a couple of weeks ago and now they bring out the big guns with the Stinger. This car is a nod back to the sports...
There was plenty happening in news, sports and events all around Laois this week.
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Gardaí were called to Portlaoise girls school after a knife was produced during a row
There was huge blacklash to 'pitiful' Failte Ireland funding for...
There were a few quite frankly, brilliant Tweets about Ireland progressing towards World Cup qualification.
Give McClean a knighthood and get Duffy a Panadol #Ireland
— James Mullaney (@mullaneyjames) October 9, 2017
It's not a bad country that we have , 40000...
It certainly didn't go the way they had hoped or planned but only once prior to this year did a Ballylinan team play in a senior county final.
In late September 1987, Ballylinan squared up to a Portlaoise team going...
The Laois County Board have resurrected the tradition of honouring old teams on county final day.
Last year the 1996 All Ireland minor winners were introduced to the crowd at half time of the Laois SFC final between Stradbally and...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Beth Bennett (née McEvoy)
O'Moores Forest, Mountmellick, Laois
Died October 13th 2017, peacefully after a short illness. Predesceesed by her loving son Thomas and her brother Martin. Dear mother...
This conversation is more frequent than ever in our household of late. It used to be a once-a-week topic but recently it’s becoming a nightly conversation, ‘what would you do if you won the lotto?’.
I’m guessing it’s just as...
Clough-Ballacolla 5-15 Na Fianna 1-15
Laois Shopping Centre U-21 HC Quarter Final Replay
Clough-Ballacolla got the better of Na Fianna this evening n a four goal-scoring difference in their U-21 hurling championship replay in Colt.
The blue and gold carried on from their...
Basketball, ladies football, soccer and hurling are all on the agenda today on a busy Saturday of local sports action.
We're tracking all the games and will be updating the results as we get them throughout the day.
The Portlaoise Panthers...
Good things come to those who wait. And two long-serving Ballylinan players will be hoping that things will be even better at about 5pm on Sunday evening.
Goalkeeper Aidan Walsh and John Kealy have both been involved with the club...
St Joseph's and Graiguecullen are into the quarter finals of the U-21 football championship after recording wins last night.
These two were victors in two preliminary round clashes and will now go forward to the last eight next week.
St Joseph's...
Dunboyne 7-12 Park-Ratheniska 4-9
Leinster Intermediate Ladies Football Semi-Final
Laois Intermediate champions Park-Ratheniska were denied their place in the Leinster Intermediate final by Meath side Dunboyne today.
The Laois side made their path to the semi-final by overcoming Shanahoe 3-8 to 2-8...
In a growing secular world it seems much more Cool to do mindfulness as opposed to pray.
Last week the minister of education announced huge funding for training teachers in the art of mindfulness for their future students to partake...
Here at LaoisToday we held a give away, with thanks to CLG Laois, for two pairs of tickets to Sunday’s County Final between Portlaoise and Ballylinan.
We're delighted to announce the winners of the give away are Lisa Loughman and Jennifer...
The boys and girls in St Patrick's NS in Ballylinan turned green and yellow on Friday ahead of Sunday's County Final.
All 277 kids from Junior Infants to Sixth Class donned the colours of the village when we took a...
