The Laois Shopping Centre SFC is well underway now and there are two more games down for decision tonight.
In Stradbally, Portlaoise are up against the 2023 IFC championship Ballylinan.
While at the same time of 7.30pm, the Centre of Excellence...
Join us for the 60th National Steam Rally with steam engines, vintage machinery, and lots of family fun.
The picturesque Cosby Estate of Stradbally, Co. Laois, is set to host the landmark 60th National Steam Rally on August 4th and...
Last year's beaten finalists Crettyard begin their campaign against Portlaoise's second team on Saturday evening.
Having done just about enough to stay up in ACFL Division 3, they will get a considerable boost in the championship with the full return...
Along with Portlaoise, Rosenallis are one of of just two dual senior clubs in Laois.
They won an intermediate double in 2019 and have remained at the highest grade since, without ever really looking like they were in any relegation...
The Laois senior football championship is underway this week and Clonaslee-St Manman's are in the final games.
They face Emo in Mountmellick on Saturday evening in what looks like a tight game on paper.
After avoiding relegation last year, 2024 has...
With the sheer volume of games at present, the latest episode of the Laois Football Podcast is here.
With an amount of Round 1 action to come over Friday and Saturday, we have decided to split our review shows into...
The highly anticipated Durrow Scarecrow Festival returns this Sunday - for what will be the last year of the event in its current guise.
The event has been hugely popular since its inception in 2011 and is a massive community...
The Laois Intermediate football championship springs back into action this week as Annanough face Mountmellick and Timahoe take on Arles-Kilcruise this Friday.
On Saturday Park-Ratheniska will face Ballyroan-Abbey's second team while Crettyard conclude the weekend of football with a trip...
Can last year's Senior 'B' football champions Stradbally go one step further this year?
That is the question and the answer will unfold over the coming months.
Karl O'Dwyer's men stayed in Division 1 for a second successive year and begin...
Park-Ratheniska have enjoyed a whirlwind couple of seasons.
From losing a Junior 'A' semi-final to Castletown in 2019, to winning the 2020 title in 2021, the intermediate championship a couple of months later and then a league success in 2022.
Last...
The Laois senior football championship is underway and Emo will be one of the last teams to play this week.
Under the guidance of Jimmy Stewart, they are up against Clonaslee-St Manman's.
They are down several players through injury and will...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Kathleen Downey (née Beere)
23 The Glebe, Monasterevin, Kildare/Portlaoise, Laois
The passing has occurred of Kathleen Downey, formerly of Clonkeen, Portlaoise, Co. Laois.
Pre deceased by her husband Paddy and son Séamus. Much...
Portarlington 1-16 O'Dempsey's 2-10
Laois SFC Round 1
Portarlington’s long winning streak against their neighbours O’Dempseys continued in the Centre of Excellence in Portlaoise after they held off a powerful comeback from the Killenard men to run out three-point winners.
Not since...
Courtwood 1-14 Killeshin 0-10
Laois SFC Round 1
Courtwood advanced to the Winner's Section of Round 2 of the Laois Shopping Centre SFC following a seven point win over Killeshin.
Ryan Van Haeften's men did the majority of the damage in the...
The Laois Shopping Centre Senior football championship continues tonight as there are two more games down for decision.
Last night, the competition began in Ratheniska as Ballyroan-Abbey got the better of The Heath.
With O'Moore Park out of action, the games...
After a week of talks, farming bodies have welcomed a decision by Minister Charlie McConalogue to reinstate in full the Straw Incorporation Scheme that he suspended last week.
The scheme incentivises farmers to chop the straw from their crops. As...
Ballyfin reached back-to-back semi-finals in 2019 and 2020 and had Portlaoise on the ropes in the 2021 championship.
There has been a regression of sorts since, though they still have a talented team on paper.
Last year they were beaten in...
The Laois senior football championship gets underway this week and we're back with our 10-minute podcast series on all the competing clubs.
This episode is dedicated to the great survivors Arles-Killen, who are once again expected to be in a...
Arles-Kilcruise are settling into life as an Intermediate club following their relegation in 2020.
They reached the final in 2022 but disappointed last year and had to defeat O'Dempsey's just to stay up.
They failed to gain promotion from Division 3...
The Laois Shopping Centre Senior Football Championship got underway this week.
With O'Moore Park out of action, matches are taking place all around the county over the next few days.
The action got underway last night in Ratheniska where Ballyroan-Abbey defeated...
Inaugural Laois Intermediate 'B' champions in 2023, can the Timahoe footballers go a step further this year?
That will be the question that they will be attempting to answer with their influx of youth hopefully proving a big help.
Timahoe have...
As has been the case every season since Mountmellick were relegated from senior in 2017, they start the intermediate championship as one of the outright favourites.
Incredibly unlucky to be relegated from ACFL Division 2 following a campaign that showed...
Annanough were crowned Laois Junior 'A' football champions last year and make the step up to the interemediate grade for the first time since 2020.
Once again under the management of Emo native Paul Lawlor, they take on perennial contenders...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Anne Clooney
Lower Boley, Abbeyleix, Laois
Beloved daughter of the late James and Eileen Clooney. Passed away peacefully after a short illness, Anne will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by her...
Ballyroan-Abbey 0-15 The Heath 1-5
Laois SFC Round 1
The Martin Murphy era is up and running for Ballyroan-Abbey as they navigated past the challenge of The Heath in Ratheniska this evening.
The game was right in the balance at half time...
The 2024 Laois Shopping Centre Senior Football Championship gets underway this evening.
With O'Moore Park out of action, this game is in Ratheniska with throw in at 7.15pm.
Ballyroan-Abbey and The Heath are the two teams that will kick off the...
Beaten in last year's Laois SFC final, Portlaoise are under new management this year with former club great Aidan Fennelly having taken over from his old team-mate Kevin Fitzpatrick.
Without a title since 2019, can they end their five-year famine?
Who...
With the Laois senior football championship getting underway this week, we have returned with our 10-minute Laois Football Podcast series.
This episode dedicates ten minutes (or thereabouts!) to Graiguecullen, a club that have endured more than most having not tasted...
The Laois Senior Football Championship begins this week and county champions St Joseph's begin their defence against Graiguecullen.
The Centre of Excellence is the venue for this game that will take place on Friday evening.
The Kellyville outfit currently hold all...
Colin Farrell has paid a moving tribute to a close friend marking her ‘miracle’ 40th birthday – and revealed he is running a marathon with her.
Laois woman Emma Fogarty is Ireland’s longest-surviving person battling the most severe type of...
