1 - 28 transfers approved by Laois GAA ahead of the 2024 club season
Laois GAA have approved 28 transfers internally ahead of the 2024 club season.
Trumera are the big beneficiaries with seven of the transfers coming to them. That...
Timahoe National School have been forced to make a substitution on their team ahead of the grand final of the LaoisToday Schools QuizCast.
The Dunamaise Arts Centre will be the venue for the final which is scheduled for Friday, March...
National Football League Division 4 Round 3 – Laois v Tipperary
In Semple Stadium at 2pm
Team news?
Laois senior football manager Justin McNulty has named the same starting 15 as for the clash with Tipperary as the one that defeated Longford,...
In 1960, Martin Luther King was imprisoned after leading a civil rights march. His dream seemed a long way off.
Criticised by white church leaders, he responded with his famous “Letter from an Alabama Jail”, which included this section:
We have...
Laois enjoyed a winning start to life in Division 2A of the National Hurling League before Carlow came to town on Saturday evening.
The Joe McDonagh Cup champions showed their mettle in Portlaoise and took control of the game early...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
David (Dave) Tuohy
Twoomey Park, Mountmellick, Laois
David (Dave) Tuohy, Twoomey Park, Mountmellick died February 22nd peacefully at home in the company of his beloved wife and family.
Dave is survived by his...
There were wins for Arles-Killeen, The Heath and Killeshin in the Kelly Cup this afternoon as the knockout stages of the pre-season competition begin to take shape.
Stradbally were already assured of top spot in their group and a semi-final...
Laois 0-21 Carlow 1-23
NHL Division 2 Round 3
Laois have suffered their league defeat of the year as they fell to the hands of Carlow in O'Moore Park this evening.
Current Joe McDonagh Cup holders Carlow came to town off the...
Laois 3-14 Kildare 2-12
National Camogie League Division 3A Round 1
The Laois camogie team made a winning start to Division 3A of the National League away to Kildare this afternoon.
A brace of goals from Lucy O'Connor in the first half,...
It's another case of Saturday Night Lights in O'Moore Park as the Laois hurlers welcome Carlow for Round 3 of the National Hurling League.
The two counties are unbeaten so far, with Laois having beaten Down and Kildare and Carlow...
Excitement is building in Rath National School ahead of their appearance in the first ever LaoisToday Schools QuizCast final.
The Dunamaise Arts Centre will be the venue for the final which is scheduled for Friday, March 1.
6th class students Aoife...
History will be made on The Heath on March 17 this year when the local community there will hold its first ever St Patrick's Day parade.
The initiative is part of the work being done by a newly-formed Health and...
NHL Division 2 – Laois v Carlow
In O'Moore Park at 6pm
The Laois hurlers take on Carlow this evening in the third game of this season’s NHL Division 2 campaign.
It’s the first time that Laois find themselves outside of Division...
The Laois camogie panel for the 2024 season has been announced and they will get their season underway with a trip to Hawkfield to take on Kildare on Saturday at 2pm.
Laois Intermediate Championship finalists from 2022 Camross and St...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
David (Dave) Tuohy
Twoomey Park, Mountmellick, Laois
David (Dave) Tuohy, Twoomey Park, Mountmellick died February 22nd peacefully at home in the company of his beloved wife and family.
Dave is survived by his...
Laois/Offaly Educational Training Board is in line to receive €2,610,000 in funding to further improve and develop the training facilities in Laois and Offaly.
This funding may be used by ETBs to plan and deliver, at a local level, essential...
Laois County Council and the Laois Federation ICA have officially named the roundabout on N80 at Fairgreen.
It has been named in honour of Lucy Franks of the Irish Country Women Association (ICA) and the renaming was attended by Councillor...
NFL Division 4 - Laois v Tipperary
In Semple Stadium on Sunday, February 25, at 2pm
The Laois footballers make the trip to Tipp this Sunday - and a rare outing in Semple Stadium - for their latest NFL Division 4...
By pure co-incidence the iconic Sam Maguire trophy was in The Heath NS on Thursday morning at the exact same time as LaoisToday visited ahead of next week's Schools QuizCast Grand Final.
And the students of The Heath will be...
Two local County Councillors have joined forces to call for a Master Plan to be prepared in Abbeyleix
Fine Gael Cllr Barry Walsh and Fianna Fáil Cllr John Joe Fennelly were speaking at the monthly meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal...
The final weekend in February is upon us and our latest Talking Sport Podcast is here to look ahead to it.
Barry McEvoy joins Alan Hartnett to look ahead to the games and we start with the meeting of Laois...
One of Laois's smallest primary schools, Mayo NS, has, over the last two years, become a hotbed for badminton in Ireland.
Led by students Aoife and Daire O’Sullivan, who are members of Carlow Lawn Tennis Club, they have passed on...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
David (Dave) Tuohy
Twoomey Park, Mountmellick, Laois
David (Dave) Tuohy, Twoomey Park, Mountmellick died February 22nd peacefully at home in the company of his beloved wife and family.
Dave is survived by his...
Portlaoise CBS 4-11 Ardscoil Rath Ioghmáin 3-10
South Leinster Colleges JFC ‘C’ Semi Final
Portlaoise CBS are through to the South-Leinster Colleges Junior Football Championship ‘C’ final, after a hugely entertaining win this afternoon.
Portlaoise looked be coasting to victory, but were...
€4,291,949 has been allocated to Laois under the Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) National Roads and Greenways Allocations for 2024.
Priority criteria for allocation includes the protection and renewal of the existing network, progression of major projects in or near construction...
Knockbeg College 3-15 Ardscoil Athy 1-12
South Leinster Colleges JFC 'A' Semi Final
Knockbeg College are through to the the South Leinster 'A' football championship final following victory over Ardscoil Athy this afternoon.
Ennae Byrne and Dylan O'Dwyer were the stars of...
Three Laois students will be in Croke Park next month to take part in the semi finals of the Irish Angus Schools Competition.
Aoibhe Foyle, Lucy-Jane Burke and Rachel Heffernan are Transition Year students in Mountmellick Community School.
The trio have...
Laois County Councillors were deeply unhappy following a reply to a motion calling for the construction of a footpath to connect the Rathmore Road to Stradbally.
Councillor Paschal McEvoy put down a notice of motion calling on the Council to...
A local County Councillor has called for a review of the entrance to Kylebrook Estate on the Abbeyleix Road and the "ongoing problems entering and exiting the estate."
The motion, which received cross-party support, was raised by Labour Cllr Marie...
It was standing room only in Camross Community Hall on Sunday evening as Camross GAA's annual juvenile presentation night took place.
The 2024 season will be getting underway shortly but this was an evening to reflect upon the 2023 season.
The...
