Portlaoise 29 Dundalk 7
Leinster U-17 League
There was a second win in a row for Portlaoise in the Leinster League when they played host to Dundalk.
The win was all down to the work that was done in the first half...
Women attending maternity services in the Portlaoise and Mullingar Hospitals can avail of dose 1 and dose 2 vaccines at special walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics that have been set up.
The clinic in Portlaoise will be in at then Laois...
With so much to discuss this week, we have split our football podcast out into THREE different episodes.
Our first looks forward to this weekend's senior and junior championship semi-finals as well as discussing the new Laois minor football managerial...
The death has occurred of Seamus Fleming, a native of The Swan, suddenly, at the age of 72.
Mr Fleming was stationed as a Garda Síochána in Monaghan for many years where he lived with his family and ran a...
The death has occurred of Portarlington doctor Oonagh McKeagney who was aged in her early 90s.
Mrs McKeagney, a native of Galway, and her husband Charles, who was also a doctor and originally from Tyrone, came to Portarlington in the...
The school community in Scoil Bhríde, Mountrath were in celebratory mode recently as they received their Active School Flag.
This was a huge achievement for all involved and a testament to the work and commitment of the Active Flag Coordinator in...
A Laois County Councillor has called for bollards to be erected on cycling lanes near two Laois secondary schools to prevent cars from parking on them.
Fianna Fail's Catherine Fitzgerald put down a motion calling for bollards, similar to those...
Laois TD Brian Stanley says that the wait for flood relief works in Mountrath cannot continue any longer.
The Sinn Fein TD was speaking as Met Eireann released a yellow rainfall warning for Laois for localised flooding from 5am today...
Park-Ratheniska 1-13 Barrowhouse 0-8
2006 Laois JFC 'A' Final
The Park-Ratheniska footballers go in search of intermediate championship glory this Friday night in O'Moore Park when they take on Mountmellick in this year's county final.
If they win it will round off...
Last Saturday, October 23, the U-15 footballers of Ballylinan headed for Croke Park to represent Laois at the John West Féile Experience.
The event took as part of the competition’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
On arrival at Croke Park, the players and...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Seamus Fleming
Urcher, Stranooden, Monaghan / Laois
formerly The Swan, Wolfhill, Co. Laois. Sadly missed by his wife Margaret, sons Anthony and Timothy, daughters Bonnie and Tessa, grandchild Ollie, brothers, sisters, nephews,...
The final Laois Hurlers Golf Society Outing of the year took place on Saturday last at the very elegant and challenging Heath Golf Club.
Despite less-than-ideal weather conditions, there was a great turnout on the day including two new recruits,...
Clonad GAA and CRG camogie hosted the second Laois Pumpkin Patch event over the Sunday and Monday of the October Bank Holiday weekend.
It once again proved to be a great success as people came from all over Leinster and...
The Laois U-16 Ladies Football finals took place as a triple header in Annanough on Bank Holiday Monday.
The 'A', 'B' and 'C' finals were down for decision as Ballyroan, Park-Ratheniska and The Heath claimed glory.
The day began with the...
The fifth week of the Laois hurling championships has come to an end and another Team of the Week is here.
We had significant games in the SHC, Premier IHC, IHC and JHC over the weekend.
We are now down to...
The kindness of a Laois teenager has become an inspiration for a campaign that is trying to bring a hospice to the midlands.
Ruth Talbot, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl from Laois, wished to use some of her Confirmation money for a...
Music Generation Laois’s annual Tionól for harp and pipes, the only harp and pipe festival in the world, takes place in Laois over the 29, 30 and 31 of October.
This year’s event includes a range of workshops with well-known...
The pandemic has taken so much away – but it has brought out the very best in some young Laois people.
Our series ‘Up and Coming’ is designed to highlight the great entrepreneurial spirit and creativity we’ve seen from Laois...
Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley raised the need for a local bus service for Portlaoise Town in the Dáil recently.
The improvement of local bus services is included in the programme for Government - and Deputy Stanley wants to see...
Mountmellick 1-12 Annanough 1-6
2006 Laois IFC Final
By the time Mountmellick reached the 2006 intermediate football final, there was a considerable burden on their shoulders.
Not only had the club no major silverware since they had won the intermediate title in...
Football goes centre stage again this weekend on the Laois GAA fixture list.
As well as the senior ladies final, we also have the men's intermediate final as well as the senior and junior semi-finals.
We also have the start of...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Br. Martin (Walter) Kearns
De La Salle Brothers, Castletown, Laois/Belfast, Antrim
Br Martin (Walter) Kearns, De La Salle Brothers, Castletown,Portlaoise, Co. Laois and late of Glanaulin, 141 Glen Road, Belfast. Predeceased by...
This piece was originally published on LaoisToday in March of this year.
It may be 30 years ago this month but the memories are still vivid.
On two Sundays in March of 1991, Portlaoise AFC played in the FAI Cup for...
Just over 20 years ago, Liam Ahearne took over as principal of The Rock NS between Mountmellick and Emo.
Then a two-teacher school, it has grown in the years since, but photographer Alf Harvey captured a selection of great images...
This piece was originally published in May of this year so references to bluebells will be out of date. But it's still a good walk at any time of year.
Last week, we focussed on a wooded area on one...
The club hurling season in Laois is really beginning to wrap up now though there are still two hugely significant games to be played in O'Moore Park on Sunday week.
For the second season running - though in the same...
On this week's Property Watch we take a look at some of the homes currently for sale around Laois for €400,000.
The homes featured include properties in Portlaoise, Killenard and Castletown and in each case you can click through to...
One of the annual staples of Mountrath life for many years was the wonderful musical put on by the girls in the Brigidine secondary school every autumn.
Colour, tradition, atmosphere - and always a couple of great nights entertainment.
For the...
With the Senior and Premier Intermediate hurling championship semi-finals down for decision over the weekend, as well as the finals of the Intermediate and Junior grades, we look back at some of the main talking points from the weekend.
Brilliant...
The Laois minor footballers will be managed by Conor Gorman from Clonaslee for the 2022 season.
Mark Bates had been in charge for the two Covid-disrupted seasons in 2020 and 2021 but stepped down after their Leinster quarter-final loss to...
