Portlaoise 1-8 Ballylinan 0-5
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 1
Portlaoise advanced to the winners section of Round 2 of the Laois senior football championship following a six-point win over Ballylinan in Stradbally this evening.
This was a repeat of last year's...
Park-Ratheniska 3-16 Castletown 1-4
Laois Shopping Centre JFC 'A' Round 1
Park-Ratheniska recorded a comfortable victory over Castletown this evening on the first night of GAA action since “LOKdown” was lifted on Friday evening in the opening round of the Laois...
O'Dempsey's 7-11 Courtwood 1-17
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 1
A scintillating display from O'Demspey's saw them claim a thoroughly deserved Laois SFC Round 1 victory over Courtwood in O'Moore Park on Monday night.
Running in an incredible seven goals, three of...
Ballyfin 3-10 Rosenallis 2-12
Laois Shopping Centre SFC Round 1
Ballyfin recovered from a sluggish first half to record a deserved win over neighbours Rosenallis in an entertaining Laois SFC opener in Portarlington this evening.
Played behind closed doors with no supporters...
The Laois GAA club action is back - though not like before!
Tonight there are six club football championship games taking place, all fully behind closed doors with no supporters in attendance.
The Government restriction in place to help limit the...
There have been no new Coronavirus deaths reported today – meaning 1,777 is the death toll in Ireland.
While there has been a total of 147 new cases of Coronavirus have been diagnosed in Ireland today.
73 of these cases are...
Three Laois athletes emerged with medals following the first session of the National Track and Field Championships in Santry at the weekend.
St Abban's scooped two of those while Emo-Rath gathered the other as a range of Laois athletes took...
The GAA have decided to cancel all Club+ Season Tickets in Laois and will issue refunds.
The Club+ Season Ticket costs €200 and entitles the holder to entry into all club championship games in their county in either hurling or...
A new Portarlington Business Association is to be set up, spearheaded by local Kildare South TD Cathal Berry who has an office in the town.
The inaugural meeting of the Portarlington Business Association will take place tomorrow evening, Tuesday, August...
It is still ONLY August.
Heavy rain and strong winds are set to sweep across the country tonight for the second time in five days.
Following closely from Storm Ellen, Storm Francis is expected to make landfall tonight at 9pm.
The storm,...
Declan Hanrahan, a suckler and beef farmer from Borris-in-Ossory, has been elected vice-chairman of the IFA livestock committee.
Hanrahan is the current livestock representative for Laois and was elected last week following a postal vote of the IFA livestock committee.
He...
A total of 60 sales of homes recorded in Laois in July, making it the busiest month of activity of 2020 since February.
Figures from the Property Price Register, which records the sale of houses in Ireland, show that July...
The Laois GAA club scene returns tonight with six adult championship football games across the county - all of them to be played behind close doors and without supporters for the first time ever.
It will certainly lead to an...
While all GAA activity has been halted because of the localised restrictions that had Laois, Offaly and Kildare in lockdown for the past two weeks, one of the standout results in any grade or code prior to it was...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Vera Carter (née Connor)
Timogue House, Stradbally, Laois
Peacefully at home, in her 102nd year. Dearly loved wife of the late William and devoted mother of Richard, Hazel, David...
The Department of Health have announced a total of 61 confirmed Coronavirus cases but no new deaths.
It means that there are now 27,969 confirmed cases in the country but the death figure remains unchanged at 1,777.
Of today's 61 cases,...
In our last blog we looked at some reasons why Public Sector workers might make AVCs. In a follow up to this, today we look at two specific case studies.
CASE STUDY (A)
What level of AVC can John make for...
A popular Portlaoise bar and restaurant has used the recent lockdown to carry out significant changes as they prepare to re-open again this week.
Jeremiah Grant Bar and Eatery on Main Street in Portlaoise had re-opened on June 29 having...
On this week's Property Watch, we take a look at what you can buy for €250,000 in Portlaoise - and what a similar amount would get you in some of the main towns in neighbouring counties.
We take a look...
Laois author Helen Cullen has just published her second novel The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually.
The Portlaoise woman previously penned the much-acclaimed award-winning Lost Letters of William Woolf.
The Truth must Dazzle Gradually is set on an island off the west coast of...
As a county, we're obviously not Kerry or Kilkenny or Dublin. We don't have countless All Irelands to our name.
But we have had some great days in Croke Park.
From a Leinster U-21 hurling final in 1983, to the famous...
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 last two weeks. In each instance you can click through to the...
Arles-Killeen 2-6 Arles 0-10
1997 Laois IFC Final
The split in Arles in the early 1990s is one of the biggest ever internal stories in Laois GAA and it's one that is still relevant almost 30 years later.
It is a saga...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Christina (Chrissie) McCreevey (née Tyrrell)
Ballyfermot, Dublin/Walkinstown, Dublin/Camross, Laois
Peacefully in her sleep at her daughter's residence. Dearly loved mother of Liam, David, Christy, Christine, Patrick, Joseph and the...
There have been two more deaths from Coronavirus and 156 new cases recorded today according to figures released by the Department of Health.
Of the cases notified today 55 are in Dublin, 36 in Kildare, 12 in Tipperary, 9 in...
Third level students in Laois and Offaly will benefit from a new fund to help them access laptops and other devices, according to Laois/Offaly TD Charlie Flanagan.
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD...
Steph is a Laois mammy of 3 small kids. She has started a blog to document her life as a mammy muddling through parenthood and searching for her identity in a world wider than her own four walls.
As the pandemic...
1 - Laois golf club closes due to Coronavirus case
Abbeyleix Golf club ceased all activity earlier this week after one of its members tested positive for Coronavirus.
Thankfully, the club has now reopened.
2 - End of an era as two...
Whether you get through one book a year or several a month, reading is a brilliant hobby.
Proven to be beneficial to our development and wellbeing, the benefits include strengthening the brain, reducing stress and increasing our vocabulary.
However, it can...
A Laois student has written a letter to Minister for Education Normal Foley and called on her to address a number of concerns that students have ahead of the proposed reopening of schools in the coming weeks.
Reuban Murray, who...
