After two years of unprecedented disruption, schools have been told to resume normal routines and normal teaching and learning activities, since February 28.
Portlaoise...
Knockbeg College 2-5 Naas CBS 2-8
Schools South Leinster U-16 'A' Championship Final
A slow first half cost Knockbeg College dearly as Naas continued their remarkable...
For the first time ever, Mountmellick Macra na Feirme have won the national FBD Capers competition final.
On Saturday March 5, in Cappoquin Community Centre,...
Kean Kavanagh from Portlaoise is among the performers that will be on stage at this year's Electric Picnic.
The talented musician, who performed previously at...
The line-up for the 2022 Electric Picnic music and arts festival has been announced.
This is the first time that the three-day festival in Stradbally...
A Laois woman is the owner of a brand new car after she was named the winner of the Irish Guide Dogs Annual Draw.
Bernadette...
Two Laois sisters claimed Leinster Championship Irish Dancing glory over the weekend.
Rioghán and Laoise Delaney from The Rock are part of the Lynam School...
The Clonad hurlers have appointed Gary Moore from Borris-Kilcotton as their new manager for the 2022 season.
Moore replaces David O'Brien who had been in...
In our latest Talking Sport Podcast, we talk about the Laois footballers upcoming trip to Aughrim to play Wicklow in Division 3 of the...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
James (Jim) Moore
Bettystown, Meath / Laois
James (Jim) Moore, Fairways Lawns, Bettystown, Co. Meath and formerly...
After a three-year absence, Portlaoise Institute is proud to host our Open Night on Thursday 24th March from 5.30pm–7.30pm, where we will welcome prospective...
Louise Phelan from Rathdowney has risen to the top of the corporate world and she was the special guest at this week's Women in...
A Laois TD says that the planned cut in excise duty by the government will 'not go far enough' to help with rising fuel...
Laois minor football manager Conor Gorman has named his captain, vice-captain and 35-player panel ahead of the upcoming Leinster championship.
Emo's Davy Costello has been...
It will be a historic day for Heywood Community School on Saturday when their Senior footballers contest the All-Ireland 'C' football final.
It has been...
Motorists can expect so see petrol and diesel prices fall from midnight following a change in excise duty.
The government is set to announce a...
Fifty Seven Boutique and Gift Emporium, with shops located in Athy, Co Kildare, and Durrow, Co Laois, have a huge end of season sale...
A Laois mother of three is set to head off across the continent next week to join the humanitarian effort on the Ukrainian border...
Gardai are appealing for anyone with information to come forward following an incident at a house in Laois on Monday March 7.
The incident occurred...
Rathdowney-Errill have appointed former Laois player Jimmy Dunne as their new hurling manager where he'll be assisted by former club players Mark Dunne and...
With the Laois GAA club season beginning to get up and running again, we sat down with some of the men that make it...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Patricia (Patty) Holohan (née Cullen)
Liogard, Portlaoise, Laois
Holohan, Patty, Liogard, Portlaoise, March 8th 2022. Peacefully in...
New Ross 0 Portlaoise 15
Leinster Rugby Women's League Division 3
Portlaoise women travelled to New Ross on Sunday and defeated the home side to move...
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, has said that Government must now move to immediately re-examine a series of decisions that it took in...
€96,000 has been allocated to Laois County Council for 12 projects under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme 2022.
Tenakill House in Raheen received the highest...
Portlaoise vigil
Laois Integration Network are hosting a vigil outside County Hall, in Portlaoise at 6pm this evening, Tuesday, March 8.
Laois people are invited to...
A record number of students from every county in Ireland and 29 countries overseas have been awarded Entrance Exhibition Awards from Trinity College Dublin.
Among...
Former Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea and former Waterford manager Derek McGrath are among the six high-profile hurling names to be presenting at a hurling...
A Laois solicitor took in almost €250,000 in Legal Aid fees in 2021, according to figures released in recent days by the Department of...
While being manager of the Laois senior hurlers now, Seamas 'Cheddar' Plunkett is a person who also cares deeply about the sport itself.
And following...
