The 2022 Laois IFC and JFC competitions are set to get underway this week.
The Intermediate championship gets underway with the meeting of Mountmellick and Arles-Kilcruise in Annanough.
While The Rock face Crettyard in Timahoe - with both games throwing in...
Forest Fest, a new three-day music festival in Emo, gets underway tomorrow evening and as the crowds set to flock to the small village, we've a couple of bits of useful information.
Big match on the big screen
In response to...
Mountmellick are gearing up for their fifth season in the second tier of club football in Laois.
They were relegated in dramatic circumstances in 2017 by Arles-Kilcruise and have remained at Intermediate ever since.
They reached the final in their first...
Banks refusing to take cash from customers must abolish service charges, Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan has said.
Deputy Flanagan was speaking after Allied Irish Bank (AIB) decided 70 of their 170 nationwide branches will cease all cash facilities.
Birr and...
The major ongoing improvement works at Ballybrophy Train Station are due to be fully completed by August.
So says Fine Gael Councillor Conor Bergin who has spoken to Irish Rail about the project.
Councillor Bergin said: “I have been in contact...
It is 22 years since St Joseph's claimed the Jack Delaney Cup - and 20 since they last made the final.
But their early season form suggests that they may be closer than ever to erasing at least one of...
Laois man Billy O'Loughlin has stepped down as manager of the Longford senior football team after just one season in charge.
The Arles-Killeen club man said that due to work commitments in the USA, he's "no longer in a position...
In the latest Talking Sport Podcast we look ahead to this season's Laois intermediate and junior football championships.
Can The Heath bounce straight back up to senior, will Mountmellick go one further than last year and can Crettyard, Timahoe and...
It will be 24 years this December since The Rock made their one and only appearance in a Senior football final.
The club made a couple of semi final appearances after that before being relegated to intermediate in 2013 where...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Peacefully in the presence of her family at St. James’s Hospital Dublin.
Teresa Breen (née Holohan)
Thornberry, Abbeyleix, Laois
Deeply regretted by her loving husband Tommy, children Sharon, Joseph, Jenny and Tracy, grandchildren...
The old dog for the hard road.
The Arles-Kilcruise footballers bid farewell to senior club football at the end of the 2020 season, bringing the curtain down on an incredible 20-year period that saw them play in four Laois senior...
A new Government fund called Croí Cónaithe will support bringing vacant and underused buildings in Laois towns and villages back into residential use, a Fine Gael Councillor has said.
Councillor Conor Bergin said, “A new €50 million Croí Cónaithe (Towns)...
After reaching the Intermediate final in 2020, last year was certainly a disappointing one for Crettyard.
Relegated from senior in 2019 after a 14-year stay, Crettyard were beaten in the 2020 intermediate final by Clonaslee-St Manman’s.
That loss was a real kick...
The 2022 Laois SFC gets underway on Thursday evening and is set to keep us all very busy from now until October.
There are a total of eight games to look forward to this week – one Thursday, two on...
Laois Chamber in collaboration with Laois Tourism are now recruiting for a Tourism Development Lead, who will be responsible for the development and enhancement of tourism in Laois.
The general scope of this exciting role is to stimulate tourism growth...
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has confirmed that there are no plans to downgrade Portlaoise Hospital's A&E Department.
The Minister was questioned on the subject recently by Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley.
A report signed by Dr Susan O'Reilly in October...
Back in the spring of this year, just as the leagues were getting underway, an episode of the LaoisToday Talking Sport Podcast was dedicated to ranking the football clubs of the county from 1-30.
It was a light-hearted undertaking, based...
After an action packed week of hurling, attention now turns to the football championships.
The Senior, Intermediate and Junior A competitions get underway this week.
This Podcast focuses solely on the Senior grade. Alan Hartnett is joined by Steven Miller to...
The All-Ireland Juvenile Grade B T&F took place in a baking Tullamore Harriers Stadium on Saturday July 16.
Athletes from St Abban's, Ballyroan Abbeyleix, Emo Rath, and Oughaval AC had an excellent day with some fine performances.
St Abban's amassed 3...
Arles-Killeen couldn’t have asked for a tougher draw in the opening round of this year’s championship with defending champions Portarlington first up.
To make their task even harder is that they carry a handful of suspensions in to the first...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Peacefully in the presence of her family at St. James's Hospital Dublin.
Teresa Breen (née Holohan)
Thornberry, Abbeyleix, Laois
Deeply regretted by her loving husband Tommy, children Sharon, Joseph, Jenny and Tracy, grandchildren...
Funeral details have been announced for Michael Timmons, the Portlaoise man who died tragically while swimming in Derryounce Lake in Portarlington last Saturday.
Mr Timmons got into difficulty while swimming at the popular beauty spot and was pronounced dead at...
Early in the second half of the 2019 Laois SFC final, Evan Lowry received a pass from Mark McDermott, took on the Portlaoise defence and rifled an unstoppable shot to the back of Michael Nolan's net.
A couple of minutes...
For the best part of 20 years the Portarlington footballers were also-rans in the Laois championship.
After winning the 2001 title, they dropped like a stone in the years after. It took them 16 years to even get back to...
As the Laois GAA fixture schedule turns to football this week, the Junior 'B' and 'C' grades had a selection of games down for decision this evening.
Stradbally continued their good form in the lower grades with a second win...
St. Fiacc’s National School in Graiguecullen has been granted planning permission for four new general classrooms.
The planning permission approved by Laois County Council is for four new general classrooms and the central activity area of 2 outdoor play safe...
The Power of Words Festival is getting set for another wonderful weekend celebrating Words - written, spoken, acted and sung - in Abbeyleix.
The festival is planned for the weekend of August 19 to 21.
The fourth year of the festival,...
Following an exciting first round of action in the Senior, Premier Intermediate and Intermediate championships, our first Hurling Team of the Week for 2022 is here.
We had 12 games across the three competitions and there were a number of...
New funding has been announced for two Laois retail businesses to expand their online offering and presence to customers at home and abroad.
Fine Gael Deputy Charlie Flanagan was speaking after Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien...
Gardai in Laois arrested two people recently following a burgarly that occurred in Portarlington.
The arrests were made on Thursday July 14 and the two were charged with 16 separate offences.
These were all charged under the Theft and Fraud Offences...
