It’s another busy week of action in the Laois GAA world as the top level championship continues across the county.
It is all about hurling this week as the Senior, Intermediate, Premier Intermediate and Junior A competitions continue.
There is also...
On Saturday last a group of local people took on the challenge of climbing Croagh Patrick in aid of the Renal Dialysis unit in Tullamore.
In the midst of the recent heatwave a group of twenty took on the well-known...
Our first football Team of the Week for 2022 is here and, in a change to normal programming, there is a change.
We have decided to go with two Teams for the early rounds of the championship such is the...
The fabulous O'Dempsey's GAA clubhouse was the venue for our first LaoisToday Talking Sport 'outside broadcast' to a live audience last week as we recorded an 'Up for the Match' style programme ahead of the All Ireland ladies intermediate...
Mountrath-based business IntegriLeads is a real recent Laois business success story.
Set up in 2019, they specialise in appointment setting for IT companies, arranging meetings for businesses who wish to increase their sales pipeline.
Founded by three local women - Eimear...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Hannah Kealy
Cremorgan, Timahoe, Laois / Kilkenny
Passed away in Temple Street Hospital, Dublin. Cherished and adored daughter of heartbroken parents Marie and Denis, much loved sister of Ella, treasured granddaughter of Margaret...
Due to the demand in our community for skilled care workers, Portlaoise Institute offers students an opportunity to gain a full QQI Level 5 qualification in both Applied Social Studies and Community Health with Psychology.
These courses are suitable for...
Stradbally Parish Gaels 6-21 Portarlington 1-5
Minor 'A' Football Championship Round 3
Stradbally Parish Gaels booked their place in the Minor football semi finals following a big win over Portarlington this evening.
Both teams came into the game following wins over Ballylinan...
58th National Steam Rally, Stradbally, Co Laois – July 31 & August 1, 2022
Ireland’s premier steam event returns after two years away
Over 30 steam engines on the road and rails
Take to the skies with our helicopter...
There's not too many soccer players who can say they scored at the Stretford End in Old Trafford to knock Man Utd out of the FA Cup.
But Jermaine Beckford is one of them - his goal dumping Man Utd...
A rural Laois community has been plunged into sadness following the tragic death of a young girl.
Hannah Kealy from Cremorgan, Timahoe, passed away in Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin following an accident.
She was the cherished and adored daughter...
The draws have been made for Round 2 of the Laois Senior and Intermediate football championships.
The draws for the two competitions were held in County Board offices this morning.
There is still one Round 1 game to be played in...
All weekend the small picturesque village of Emo rocked to the soundtrack of Forest Fest, the new three-day music festival that attracted music fans in their thousands.
The community sports field was utterly transformed with the main stage set against...
Highly passionate, skilled, driven, devoted and focused are just some of the words that come to mind when speaking to former Laois captain, Laura Nerney.
While Laura will sit this year’s All Ireland final out after recently welcoming her baby...
Laois Integration Network have announced that a ‘Zero Cost Shop’ named ‘Siopa Fáilte’ for Ukrainian people living in Laois, will close on Saturday July 30.
The zero-cost shop which opened on Saturday April 9, contained items kindly donated by the...
Sean Fleming, Minister of State in the Department of Finance, met with all of the Credit Unions in Laois recently to discuss plans to help the Credit Union Movement.
The meeting was held in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise.
The are...
It is full steam ahead for the Laois Ladies this week as excitement builds ahead of their trip to Croke Park on Sunday.
Donie Brennan's charges will take on Wexford in the All-Ireland Intermediate football final.
The squad are now busy...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Timothy (Tim) Fitzpatrick
Mornington, Meath / Rathdowney, Laois
Timothy (Tim) Fitzpatrick, Mornington, Co. Meath and formerly of Rathdowney, Co. Laois, 23rd July 2022. Peacefully, at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, aged 85...
The opening round of the Laois senior football championship took place over the weekend and Steven and Alan are here to cast their eye on all seven games - the St Joseph's v Ballylinan fixture has been postponed and...
Courtwood 2-11 Park-Ratheniska 0-10
Senior Football Championship Round 1
Niall Dunne was the difference as Courtwood saw off the challenge of newly promoted Park-Ratheniska this afternoon.
The midfielder finished the game with 1-5, was unbeatable in the air and set up a...
Stradbally 1-15 Ballyfin 1-9
Senior Football Championship Round 1
Darragh Carolan, Tom Shiel and Jody Dillon were on top form as Stradbally made a winning start to the Senior Football Championship.
After a slow opening quarter, the victors soon got to grips...
There are a number of jobs in Laois being advertised on LaoisToday at the moment.
Below we have listed all of the roles advertised on LaoisToday in the recent weeks. In each instance you can click through to the full...
On this week’s Property Watch we look at five homes currently for sale in the Mountmellick area.
Among the properties featuring this week is an apartment with a substantial balcony and a chance to put your own mark on a...
It is Sunday morning and we are live from O'Moore Park for another double header of action.
Following three games yesterday evening, Round 1 of the Senior Football Championship is almost at an end.
After these two games, just one match,...
Portarlington 6-10 Spink 1-7
Laois Junior Football Championship Group B Round 1
Portarlington's second team were a different class than their opponents in Spink this morning.
For large parts of the game it really seemed like men against boys with Spink powerless...
It's been 25 years since Park-Ratheniska played senior club football in Laois.
Not since 1997, when they were in a group with Ballyroan, Timahoe and Annawood (a short-lived arrangement between Annanough and Courtwood) have they been at the top level.
In...
Courtwood went further in the senior championship last season than they did in any year since 1990, their quarter-final appearance coming after a famous win over Portlaoise and epic extra-time success over Clonaslee-St Manman's.
Portarlington did show the gap that...
No Laois club will ever take Ballyfin for granted again given their hugely impressive championship form over the past three seasons.
Having surprisingly won the intermediate grade in 2014 - on a day when a 17-year-old Sean Moore scored a...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Sophie Morrison
Portlaoise, Laois
Late staff member of Odlum Mills, Portarlington. Peacefully, in the loving care of the staff of St Brigid's Hospital, Shaen. Pre-deceased by her sister Rosemary and brother-in-law Dave...
Stradbally's record in recent times is bizarre. In the past eight seasons they've been in the relegation playoffs five times - and won the championship once.
That stunning last-minute triumph that denied Portlaoise 10-in-a-row will live forever in the club...
