The Killeshin Hotel are hosting a Winter Wedding Showcase this Saturday, December 4.
The event takes place from 12pm to 4pm and the Wedding Team will be available to meet you and guide you through everything they can offer for...
Abbeyleix 0-21 The Harps 1-8
Laois U-20 'A' HC Final
A powerful second-half performance ensured Abbeyleix were crowned Laois U-20 'A' hurling champions this afternoon in the Laois GAA Centre of Excellence in Portlaoise.
They were level 0-7 apiece at half time...
The Portlaoise Musical Society have always gone way above and beyond in terms of their production values - and they've been duly honoured at national level on occasion.
2012 was one such year when they pulled out all the stops...
The Laois senior footballers will play Wicklow in the opening round of the 2022 Leinster championship while the hurlers now also know their schedule for what will be their first time in the round robin competition.
Billy Sheehan's first championship...
Laois U-20 'A' HC Final - Abbeyleix v The Harps
In the Laois GAA Centre of Excellence at 1.30pm
One of the last Laois hurling finals of 2021 will be decided in the Centre of Excellence in Portlaoise this afternoon when The...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Paddy Carter
St. Fintan's Terrace, Mountrath, Laois
Paddy Carter, St. Fintan's Terrace, Mountrath, Co. Laois. Died 27th November 2021, (peacefully) at the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise, surrounded by his loving family.
Deeply regretted...
Ballyfin 2-12 Tinahely 1-5 (AET)
Leinster Ladies Club JFC Quarter-final
Ballyfin Ladies kept their remarkable 2021 season going as they came through extra time to see off Tinahely in Wicklow today.
Ken Farrell's charges pulled off a remarkable comeback in the second...
Clough-Ballacolla 1-17 Rapparees 0-12
Leinster Club SHC Quarter-final
The back-to-back Laois Senior hurling champions are through to the Leinster semi finals for the first time in their history.
After failing on three previous attempts, Clough-Ballacolla finally have a win under their belts...
The Saturday GAA action continues in O'Moore Park at 5.30pm this evening.
Declan Laffan’s Clough-Ballacolla host Rapparees of Wexford in the Leinster quarter final.
While Clough-Ballacolla claimed glory three weeks ago, it is more than two months since their opponents did...
Ballinakill 1-12 Glenmore 2-17
Leinster Club IHC Quarter-final
Ballinakill's Leinster campaign is over after they were beaten by eight points by Glenmore in Abbeyleix this afternoon.
Seamus Dowling's charges, who were without the injured Cha Dwyer, mounted a fine challenge but just...
Events which are bigger than us, that we have no way of controlling, are responsible for a great deal of anxiety.
Whether bad news stories, and there are plenty of those, things which are happening to loved ones over which...
1 - Mountmellick community stunned at tragic death of young Daragh Lee
There was a deep sadness in Mountmellick following the tragic death of Daragh Lee last Saturday morning.
The 19-year-old was the pedestrian killed in a traffic accident on the...
Christmas festivities get off to cheerful start in Mountmellick when trucks and tractors from around Leinster converge in the town on Saturday December 18 in a major fund-raising drive-in aid of the Cuisle Cancer Support Centre.
A ‘Light Up Truck...
Christmas seems to arrive now by the start of November and ends on Christmas day.
In a secular culture the season of Advent, a time of waiting is certainly counter-cultural. This week we begin Advent.
This is the period when we...
The Cork football final will take place in Pairc ui Chaoimh on Sunday afternoon when Clonakilty face off against St Finbarr's from Cork city.
And there will be a local if interests of sorts - with Ben Ridgeway from Cloneygowan...
It is another extremely busy Saturday of GAA ahead with five games down for decision involving Laois teams.
It is all about provincial games now with hurling, camogie and ladies football matches ahead.
The first Laois team in action are Ballinakill...
Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has called for ICU capacity in Portlaoise and Tullamore Hospitals to be increased permanently.
The Laois TD made the call to Minister Stephen Donnelly while speaking in the Dáil during a debate on measures...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Martin Lalor
Erkindale Drive, Durrow, Laois
Peacefully, at Brookhaven Nursing Hom, Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny.
Predeceased by his parents William & Mary, twin brother Tony, brother Patrick (Abbeyleix), sisters Ethel Browne (Ashbourne), Philomena Jacob...
Na Fianna Og 2-11 The Heath 2-10
Laois U-20 'B' Football Championship Final
Colin Dunne's point in injury time was the difference as Na Fianna Og defeated The Heath in the U-20 'B' championship final.
In baltic conditions in Stradbally, the two...
The GAA award winners for the 2020 and 2021 seasons in Laois have been announced.
As Covid-19 cancelled last year's event, 2020 and 2021 were combined on this occasion.
It had been planned that these would take place in the Midlands...
Each year in Portlaoise College, Awareness Week is marked by a week long timetable of events.
Past pupils are invited to the school to give a taste of different careers, and how they went about fulfilling their dreams.
There are also...
There is sadness in Mountmellick this week following the death of Ollie Payne, a man who contributing hugely to the town and community over a long number of years.
Ollie served as Fine Gael town councillor up until the abolishment...
Mountrath Community School Transition Year student Courtney Chambers has been elected as the Laois-Offaly Regional Officer for the Irish Second Level Students Union.
The Irish Second Level Students Union is the representative body for second-level students in the Republic of...
Last weekend, 125 girls aged between 15 and 21 auditioned in front of music mogul Louis Walsh in Vicar Street.
Among them was 20-year-old Portarlington singer Aoife Coady who was one of the final ones to audition on the day.
Exactly...
SOLAS is moving into full Christmas mode this week as host a series of Christmas Craft market and workshops over the coming 4 weeks.
Each Christmas market will feature 30 separate stall holders and feature everything from Christmas decorations, Jewellery,...
Back-to-back Laois SHC champions Clough-Ballacolla begin their Leinster championship adventure against Raparees in O'Moore Park this weekend.
On Saturday, the Laois side will be hoping to do something that they haven't managed before - win a game in the provincial...
Na Fianna Og v The Heath
Laois U-20 'B' Football Championship Final in Stradbally at 7.30pm
The first U-20 final of 2021 is down for decision tonight as Na Fianna Og and The Heath will meet in Stradbally at 7.30pm.
The 'B'...
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Oliver (Ollie) Payne
Mountmellick, Laois
Regretted by his wife Olive, daughters Barbara and Suzanne, sons Mark, Keith and Jeffrey, daughters-in-law Sarah, Orla, Catherine, son-in-law Aidan, granddaughters Sadhbh, Faye, Aileen, Aisling, Connie and...
Graiguecullen 2-12 Portarlington 0-5
Laois U-20 'A' FC Quarter-final
Graiguecullen are through to this year's Laois U-20 FC semi-final thanks to a comfortable win over Portarlington this evening.
Senior player Conor Kelly helped himself to ten points while second half goals from...
The students of Mountrath Community School have been extremely busty lately as they have taken part in a range of different activities.
Last week, the three Transition Year classes participated in an intensive young drivers education programme.
The course was taught...
