TUESDAY JULY 28
Laois Shopping Centre Intermediate Hurling Championship Group B Round 1
Ballypickas V Trumera in Ballypickas 7.30pm
Midlands Park Hotel U15 "B" Football Competition Group B Round 1
Killeshin V Stradbally Parish Gaels 7pm
WEDNESDAY JULY 29
All Games 7.45pm unless stated
Ladies Senior...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Catherine (Kaye) Kane (née Duffy)
Heather Lane, Esker Hills, Portlaoise, Laois / Kilmeague, Kildare
Formerly of the Liberties, Dublin. Peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. Sadly missed...
Laois GAA have announced that they will be live streaming all the opening round games in this year's senior hurling and football championships.
In an email this evening, Laois GAA secretary Niall Handy informed the clubs that agreement had been...
There has been no new Coronavirus death reported today – meaning 1,763 is the death toll in Ireland still.
While there has been a total of 11 new cases of Coronavirus have been diagnosed in Ireland today.
That means there is...
The government has announced details on how they plan to reopen schools in August.
The plan, which will cost €370 million, was announced by Taoiseach Micheal Martin and Minister for Education Norma Foley.
It will see 4,000 schools reopened to serve...
The Laois camogie championships got underway at the weekend with games in both grades.
The top grade in Laois is called intermediate because it reflects the level the inter-county team play at and defending champions Camross got off to a...
Week two of the resumption of CCFL is completed and there were mixed fortunes for the Laois clubs involved.
Mountmellick United bowed out of the Combined Counties Cup as they were beaten by Derry Rovers while Clonaslee fell to Birr...
Two Laois men have been appointed to key roles in some of Ireland's leading organisations in recent weeks.
Eoin Lowry, from Ratheniska, who was previously Agri Business editor of the Irish Farmers Journal, has been appointed as the head of...
The patient at Portlaoise Hospital who was diagnosed with Covid-19 a week ago, remains in ICU.
The patient has now spent seven consecutive days in Portlaoise Hospital's ICU battling the virus.
That patient remains the only confirmed cases of the virus...
The Portlaoise Plaza at Junction 17 on the M7 motorway at Togher is set to open this Friday, July 31, with 120 new jobs created.
The jobs will be announced at the site this morning by Laois TD Sean Fleming...
There will be no floodlit club championship matches this year in MW Hire O'Moore Park as the floodlights are set to undergo an upgrade as part of the 'Green Stadium' initiative.
Laois GAA chairman Peter O'Neill has driven this project...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Marie Conroy (née Barnett)
Shraduff, Clonaslee, Laois
Marie Conroy, (nee Barnett) Shraduff, Clonaslee, Co. Laois. Passed away peacefully at her residence surrounded by her loving family on the 24th...
A Portlaoise business has announced they are closing for three weeks after a staff member tested positive for Coronavirus.
Iris Hand and Foot Spa, which is located in Hynds Square in Portlaoise, have announced that they will be closed from...
There have been no new Coronavirus deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today - and a further 12 new cases have been confirmed.
There has now been a total of 1,764 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland and 25,881...
Gardaí have seized €161,000 worth of cocaine (pending analysis) and arrested a man following a discovery in Portarlington.
The man, aged in his early 20s, was arrested following a search of a house in the Patrick Street area of Portarlington...
Rathdowney-Errill and Portlaoise have been installed as favourites for this year's Laois senior hurling and football championships respectively ahead of the action getting underway this week.
The hurling competitions begin this week and Rathdowney-Errill are 7/4 favourites with Paddy Power...
This week for Property Watch we look at five houses for sale in Laois for around €350,000.
In each instance you can click through to the Daft.ie profile to read more.
22 Colliers Way, Kilminchy
For sale with Hume Auctioneers, this five-bedroom detached...
Michael Scully, the new owner of the Square Bar in Portlaoise, says he is hoping to be open by the end of August as pubs prepare to adjust to life in the new Coronavirus world.
The Ballyroan man purchased the...
We return with our Sporting Memories interview series this week where we catch up with Leo Turley, the O'Dempsey's man who played for Laois from the mid 1980s up until 1997.
He was first involved with the Laois senior team...
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...
Clonad 0-16 Portlaoise 2-7
1992 Laois SHC Final
From 1976 to 1991 only two clubs won the Laois senior hurling championship: Camross and Portlaoise.
In 1992, however, Clonad broke that all up, when the club steeped in history won their first title...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Marie Conroy (née Barnett)
Shraduff, Clonaslee, Laois
Marie Conroy, (nee Barnett) Shraduff, Clonaslee, Co. Laois. Passed away peacefully at her residence surrounded by her loving family on the 24th...
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There was a huge crowd at the Ballylinan Cul Camp last week as more than 100 boys and girls came together to hone their skills.
This camp was coordinated by Donie Brennan,...
Health officials have confirmed that a one further person has died from Covid-19 in Ireland while they have announced 24 new confirmed cases.
There has now been a total of 1,764 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland - there are 25,869...
Laois TD Brian Stanley may not have been appointed as a Sinn Féin front bench spokesperson but he has been appointed as the chairman of the high-profile Public Accounts Committee, where he will replace constituency colleague Sean Fleming.
Announcing the...
Fr Liam Lawton is set to perform at this week's Rathdowney Parish online concert.
Fr Lawton, who hails from Edenderry, will become the latest person to entertain online on Tuesday July 28 at 1pm.
Back in March, Fr Martin Delaney launched...
1 - Gardai recover body from apartment in Laois
Gardai recovered a body from an apartment in Portlaoise on Tuesday. The sad discovery was made in Laois’s main town.
2 - Sadness following the passing of young Laois boy
There is deep...
Leas Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council, Cllr Conor Bergin has urged local micro and small businesses in Laois to apply for the Restart Grant from Laois County Council, to assist with reopening costs and re-employing workers after the COVID-19...
The Cul Camps got underway in Laois this week as hundreds of children from across the county came together in groups - many doing so for the first time since March.
On March 12, with the Coronavirus beginning to grip...
"Even just one person in our community caught it, it would be one too many" - that is how the decision makers in one Laois GAA club felt when they were faced with a possible Covid-19 exposure and made...
