Little Treasures Pre-School in Portlaoise are running summer camps for children in July and August.
There are camps for children aged from 3 to 8 in their premises on the Borris Road in Portlaoise on the weeks of July 6-10...
The Laois ladies footballers will play Clare, Sligo and Kildare in the group stages of this year's All Ireland intermediate championship.
The draw for senior, intermediate and junior grades were made live on the LGFA Facebook page this evening.
With no...
This day 12 months ago, Laois fans were in the midst of joyous celebrations.
The Laois hurlers defeated Westmeath to claim the Joe McDonagh Cup and, in the process, secure a place in the Leinster hurling championship for 2020.
There was...
1,736 people have now died from Coronavirus in Ireland – with one new death reported today.
While there has been a total of 11 new cases of Coronavirus have been diagnosed in Ireland today.
That means there is now a total...
The draws for the revised Leinster U-20 hurling, minor football and hurling championships have been made this evening.
Both of the minor teams could have been getting ready for Leinster finals in the coming weeks but Coronavirus put an end...
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...
In our latest Talking Sport podcast, we catch up with Portlaoise brothers Eoghan and Sean Masterson, who are now full-time professional rugby players with Connacht.
In a wide-ranging discussion, we chat about their early memories playing with Portlaoise, how Eoghan...
A Laois County Councillor has suggested that a commercial airport should be constructed in Laois.
Fine Gael Councillor Aisling Moran says that Laois is ideally located for a commercial airport.
Ms Moran made her call following a discussion on on a...
Experienced childminder required in Portlaoise area to mind three children aged 7, 6 & 2 preferably in children’s home.
Must have own car for school runs.
Tuesday to Friday 8.15am to 5.15pm.
Start date end of August
To Apply
Email CV to maryborough_village@hotmail.com or...
Planning permission has been sought for the development of a doctor's surgery at the old Miller's Hardware off Bull Lane in the centre of Portlaoise.
The premises, which is now owned by the Mulhall family who run the nearby Supervalu,...
The vice-captain of the Laois Ladies minor football team has called for the Leinster championship to be reinstated.
Timahoe Ladies footballer Sarah Larkin says that she and her teammates have been left 'disappointed' and 'belittled' by Leinster LGFA's decision to...
A Laois primary school teacher has set up an Instagram page to help students with their career paths.
Laura Phelan, from Castletown, who recently qualified from University of Limerick with a degree in primary teaching and psychology, is hoping to...
It’s one of the busiest delis around and Mulhall’s SuperValu in Portlaoise are currently recruiting to fill a full-time vacancy.
Positions Available
Deli Assistant
Experience
3 years experience is essential.
Full time position.
Part-time or weekend work need not apply.
Homemade cooking experience...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Brendan O'Byrne
Canterbury, England and late of Timahoe, Co. Laois
Peacefully on Saturday 27th June 2020, the beloved husband of Suzanne, and dear brother of Richard and Desmond. Sadly,...
Who would have thought that a wet Monday in late June would be such a momentous day for so many businesses?
But after well over three months with the doors closed following the Coronavirus restrictions, many businesseses opened their doors...
1,730 people have now died from Coronavirus in Ireland – with no new deaths reported today.
While there has been a total of 24 new cases of Coronavirus have been diagnosed in Ireland today.
That means there is now a total...
Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley says “the new Government led by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil does not represent the change that people voted for in February and is not representative of Rural Ireland".
“Led by two right wing...
Catherine Fitzgerald has been elected as the new Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council.
The Fianna Fáil councillor was elected at today’s monthly meeting of the council which took place in the Dunamaise Arts Centre as it was not possible to...
Laois County Council have confirmed that Portlaoise Leisure Centre will not be privatised.
Chief Executive John Mulholland told this morning’s monthly meeting of elected members that the centre will not be closed permanently either - although he couldn’t provide a...
Daisy Thomas from Abbeyleix has been crowned Microsoft Specialist Word 2016 Champion of UK and Ireland.
Daisy is a Transition Year student in Heywood Community School. As part of the TY Programme in the school, all students under the expert...
Sinn Féin's rise at a national level has been mirrored somewhat in Laois.
The party won their first Dáil seat in the 1997 General Election and two years later Brian Stanley had a breakthrough success by winning a seat on...
Rachael Taylor-Fawsitt is the Laois lady behind the Lovely To Meet Me travel and lifestyle blog.
She also works for Independent News and Media as a native content writer and manager of a growing community of content creators simply and...
Over the long history of the GAA, there have been few All Ireland hurling glories for Laois teams.
Fewer still have been in Croke Park. But the Portlaoise CBS senior hurling team of 1998 achieved just that when they went...
While plenty of the local attention has been on the return of the club GAA fixtures, there is still a significant season for our county teams to look forward to in the autumn.
In a much-shortened season, the Laois hurlers...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Christina Ryan (née O'Brien)
Knockanore, Thomastown, Kilkenny/Errill, Laois
The death has taken place of Christina (Ina/Chris) Ryan (nee O'Brien), Knockanore, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and formerly of Clonmore, Errill, Co....
Funding has been sought to purchase a pump in a Laois town that has been badly hit by flooding in the past.
Mountmellick was left devastated by floods in 2017 and there have been a couple of incidents in the...
The ‘Do It For Dan’ committee has today confirmed the difficult news that unfortunately little Dan Donoher will not be making the trip to the US to receive the planned infusion of the drug Zolgensma.
Do It For Dan, a...
This weekend would normally have been a huge occasion at the Curragh racecourse but given the times we are in the fact that racing is able to go ahead at all is a small mercy.
And a Laois trainer enjoyed...
Following Liverpool's Premier League title success this week, we asked two local long-suffering Liverpool supporters to write a piece on what it meant to them.
Shane Maher from Ballacolla and Niall Miller from Courtwood have been following the club for...
One further person has died from Coronavirus and there have been a further three confirmed cases, according to figures released by the Department of Health this evening.
It means there has now been a total of 1,735 COVID-19 related deaths...
