The 2022 Combined Counties Cup got underway this weekend as teams from across Laois and beyond began their search for silverware.
Cup games always bring a feeling of excitement and intrigue that the league just cannot replicate.
The one-off...
Laois Volunteer Centre in association with ALONE are hosting a Befriending Service Information Evening at Portlaoise Parish Centre this Thursday, November 24, at 7pm.
If you are interested in becoming a Befriender to an older person in Laois, come along...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Fergus Beere
Clonkeen, Portlaoise, Laois
Beere Fergus. Clonkeen, Portlaoise. 19th November 2022. Peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his parents Kathleen and Patsy and brother Paddy. Dearly loved...
Mountmellick Utd B 1 Rosenallis B 1
CCFL Division 3A
It has been a turbulent start to the season for the ‘B’ teams of Mountmellick United and Rosenallis. Both teams sit in the bottom half of the table, having each lost...
“When I moved to Portlaoise, I found the meaning of community, not only the Brazilian community, but everyone I met was kind and helpful to me.”
Wesley Soares (29) from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is effusive about his new life in...
The 2022 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year award has gone to Laois forward Mo Nerney.
Mo, who plays for Timahoe Ladies, was top scorer across all three grades of the 2022 TG4 All-Ireland Championships.
She did this with an...
They started out at the ‘Mass on the Grass’ at Marian Avenue, Portlaoise, and have been performing every year apart from the last two years due to Covid restrictions.
The members of the 65 Kitchen Choir are tuning up...
Social media is a great thing. It’s a very clever use of technology which allows us to connect with a wide circle of people in many different locations all over the world.
It’s a great way to get news, updates,...
Portarlington manager Martin Murphy was at a loss to explain his sides' performance in their defeat to Kilmacud Crokes yesterday.
Speaking immediately after the game, the Portarlington boss was desperately disappointed that his team did not do themselves justice on...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Breda O'Toole
Glendowns, Portlaoise, Laois/Inverin, Galway
The death has occurred of Breda O’Toole of Glendowns, Portlaoise and formerly Inverin, Co. Galway.
Breda passed away, peacefully at home, on November 18th, 2022, in the...
Portarlington 0-4 Kilmacud Crokes 1-12
Leinster Club Senior Football Championship Semi Final
Portarlington's Leinster championship campaign is over for 2022 after they were well beaten by Kilmacud Crokes in Croke Park.
Martin Murphy's charges were beaten by the same opponents at the...
Park Ratheniska-Timahoe 0-15 Na Fianna 1-12 - Park won 4-3 on penalties after extra time
Laois U-20 ‘B’ HC Final
Park Ratheniska-Timahoe won the U-20 'B' Hurling Championship in the most dramatic fashion possible in the Centre of Excellence.
It was a...
We're live from Croke Park where Portarlington will once again look to make history by reaching their first ever Leinster final.
Standing in their way is the side who defeated them at the exact same stage last year - Kilmacud...
The first in-person Laois GAA awards night took place in the Midlands Park Hotel in Portlaoise last night as the various 2022 player of the years were honoured.
Though a virtual ceremony took place last year to recognise the 2021...
Garda Brendan Crawford from Ballyroan was honoured at the National Bravery Awards on Friday for his role in rescuing a woman from a river in Dublin in June 2020.
Garda Crawford, who is stationed in Clondalkin in Dublin but lives...
Leinster Club SFC Semi-final - Portarlington v Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin)
In Croke Park at 7pm (Live on RTE)
Former Dublin and Kilmacud Crokes player Mark Vaughan has said that Laois club champions have always been feared by Dublin sides in Leinster,...
Laois U-20 'B' HC Final - Na Fianna v Park-Ratheniska/Timahoe
In the Laois GAA Centre of Excellence at 3pm
Another long Laois hurling season will come to a conclusion this afternoon in the Centre of Excellence in Portlaoise when the U-20...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Christina Doyle (née Kinsella)
Raheendoran, Carlow/Laois
Christina Doyle (née Kinsella), of Raheendoran, Carlow and formerly of Ballyhide, Co. Laois, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on November 18th, 2022, at Beechwood...
Clonaslee-St Manman's 9-12 Ballylinan 1-9
Laois U-20 ‘B’ Group B Round 5
Clonaslee St Manman's secured their spot in the semi-finals of the U-20 'B' Football Championship with a very comprehensive victory over a young Ballylinan side under the lights in...
Two speed tables are to be installed in a Laois village after a traffic survey revealed motorists were approaching it way above the speed limit.
A speed survey was recently completed on two approach roads to Killeen village on the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to ‘back-off’ from farmers and recognise the invaluable environmental objectives that are currently being achieved on agricultural land throughout the state.
That was the view of Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, after the...
A Laois County Councillor has pleaded with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to follow up on their promises to carry out safety works at junctions across Laois.
Fine Gael Councillor Aisling Moran said that people at a serious risk of being in...
Laois County Council could be hit with a bill for €40,000 if works to address a hedge that is falling down are not carried out.
So said Independent Councillor Ben Brennan who explained that the hedge in question is falling...
This coming Monday evening, Laois GAA are holding a forum in the county board offices where clubs are invited to attend and air their views on the various adult grades, competition structures and scheduling.
Already clubs have had the opportunity...
The Portarlington senior footballers are just a day away from a return to Croke Park for a Leinster semi final.
11 months ago, they faced Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes and lost out by 1-11 to 0-12 - their only championship...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Aileen Hennessy (née Clarke)
Bishopswood Road, Portarlington, Offaly / Portarlington, Laois
Peacefully, at her residence, surrounded by her loving family. Loving wife of the late Noel. Deeply regretted by her loving sons...
Sinn Féin raised the urgent need to address the current staffing difficulties for firefighters in Laois and Offaly in the Dail.
Addressing Minister Darragh O’Brien, local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley made the case.
“The proposals being put forward by Sinn...
Portlaoise College teachers brought chemistry from the classroom to the pitch as an unprecedented seven teachers from the school won various county and all Ireland silverware recently.
Darren Maher was an integral part of the Clough-Ballacolla side who won their...
Motorists are set to be hit with an increase on the M7/M8 toll outside Portlaoise - as well as at most other tolls around the country.
The price for a car at the toll on the M7/M8 is set to...
The big food news this week is that for a few hours this Saturday SOLAS is going be a haven for all fresh fish lovers as ‘Alize Fish Bates from Kilmore quay’ is joining the farmers’ market for the...
