The Portlaoise Rugby team will entertain Dundalk in Togher in Round 2 of the Towns Cup following a facile 53-0 win away to Enniscorthy last Sunday.
Enniscorthy won the Towns Cup last May but having also been promoted to the...
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The Leinster U-20 football championship final between Laois and Dublin will be shown live on TV.
The game, which takes place on Friday evening at 7.30pm in Netwatch Cullen Park in Carlow,...
Mountrath Community School’s first ever musical is taking place this week on March 5, 6 and 7.
Rehearsals began in September and this week will see the culmination of all the hard work and dedication of the Transition Year students...
Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board invites applications that may arise for:
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Portarlington FET Centre – 19.5 hours
Banagher FET Centre – 19.5 hours
Mountmellick FET Centre – 19.5 hours
Midland Skills Centre – 19.5 hours
Abbeyleix FET...
Well-known Laois singer Martina Cahill was diagnosed with Lyme Disease back in January.
Martina had been experiencing serious health difficulties and was diagnosed with many different illnesses before getting to the root of her problem.
Martina was tested for Lyme Disease...
A five-hour hostage situation in the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise recently that was ended after a weapon was exchanged for a bar of chocolate - was actually a ruse in a bid to take a female officer hostage.
The Irish...
Cahir Healy and the Laois, and indeed Portlaoise, footballers have received some good news this morning as the knee injury he sustained against Clare is not as bad as first feared.
The 33-year-old defender was carried off in agony two...
An official trip to the United States by a small Laois delegation on the occasion of the St Patrick’s Day festivities is going ahead, despite ongoing criticism from detractors.
Traditionally, Laois has been represented at the ceremonies Stateside by the...
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The Laois U-20 footballers are back in a Leinster final this Friday night when they face Dublin in Netwatch Cullen Park in Carlow.
The side are captained by Portarlington's Ronan Coffey this...
This week’s Car of the Week from Joe Mallon Motors is a 192 Dacia Duster.
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Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Sarah Chambers (née Dempsey)
Congress Tcel, Portarlington, Laois
Formerly Ballymorris Road Portarlington. Peacefully in the loving and wonderful care of the staff of Oakdale Nursing Home Portarlington. Loving wife...
The first of the annual Laois GAA County Board €130 ticket draws has been postponed by a week because of a clash with the Leinster U-20 football final.
The draw, which is a huge fundraiser for all the clubs in...
What a success this was.
The community of Stradbally came together in the Midlands Park Hotel on Saturday night for a Lip Sync Battle that raised a fortune.
Before the night began, a staggering total of €95,000 had been raised with...
Mustangs Nightclub is the new addition to O'Loughlin's Hotel on Main Street Portlaoise.
It replaces Club 23 which closed down a number of years ago.
Mustangs had their official launch night last Saturday February 29.
The night was a great success.
The night...
After another busy weekend of action, Steven Miller and Alan Hartnett look back on defeats for the Laois senior hurlers, senior footballers and U-20 footballers.
In a continuation of the positional change from last week, Alan presents the show.
After Storm...
The death has occurred of Denzil Mills from Portlaoise, a man who was very well-known through his involvement with Portlaoise Rugby Club and who worked in Shaw's in Portlaoise for many years.
Denzil was a member of the first Portlaoise...
Local teenagers from across Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Laois are adding the finishing touches to their haute couture recycled designs.
They'll be strutting their stuff at this year’s Regional Final of Junk Kouture in the hopes of bagging themselves...
St Conleth’s LGFC held a 5k road race last Sunday March 1 at 11am.
This was the first of what they hope will be a successful annual event for the club.
And they had a great turnout!
The run started from McCann...
Clonaslee parade have announced a very special guest for their St Patrick's Day parade.
Jamie Lee Collins from Raised by the Village will be the Grand Marshall.
Pat Carroll, explained to LaoisToday that the parade will take place on Sunday March...
LaoisToday recently teamed up with Q & R Sublime as the Portlaoise hairdressers celebrated a year in business.
To mark the occasion, Q & R Sublime had a €100 voucher to give away to one of our lucky readers.
There was...
A Laois man has opened up about his 14-year battle with anxiety.
Noel John Tuohy, a 36-year-old civil servant from Portlaoise, has written a deeply personal and brave account of what it is like to live with chronic anxiety.
He shares...
Laois senior football manager Mike Quirke says that his side were firmly second best as they went down to Kildare in MW Hire O'Moore Park yesterday afternoon.
The Kerry native was extremely disappointed with his side's display and said that...
The availability of senior players to the Laois U-20 football panel was raised at the recent Laois GAA County Board meeting.
Laois are currently preparing for the Leinster final for the second year running, but controversy arose ahead of the...
The Creative Ireland programme in Laois for 2020 is brimming with ideas on how to engage with communities.
The aim is to continue to invite communities to participate in wide and varied creative processes to foster an environment conducive to...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Bridget Hetherington (née BYRNE)
Dysartbeigh, Mountrath, Laois
Bridget Hetherington (neé Byrne), Dysartbeigh, Mountrath, Co. Laois. Died 1st March 2020 (peacefully) in her 91st year, at the Ballard Lodge Nursing...
A fundraiser has been launched for a Laois mother who is fighting for her life following a serious illness.
Andrea Broughan, from Arlington Estate in Portarlington, is a mother of two who is experiencing a very tough time at the...
Storm Jorge meant all games in the CCFL were called off on Saturday.
And with three storms in the last four weekends chucking a lot of water around the place, only a handful of soccer games were played anywhere today.
We...
The Laois footballers were beaten 0-15 to 0-10 by Kildare in MW Hire O'Moore Park on Sunday afternoon in Round 5 of the Allianz Football League Division 2.
Here we go through some of the game's main talking points.
1 -...
Laois 1-19 Kilkenny 3-22
Allianz Hurling League Division 1B Round 5
There was little to play for in Nowlan Park this afternoon as the Laois hurlers took on Kilkenny with the fate of both sides already determined.
Laois could not reach a...
Kildare 0-15 Laois 0-10
Allianz Football League Division 2
Laois's poor recent record against Kildare continued in MW Hire O'Moore Park this afternoon as the visitors claimed a vital win in their battle to avoid relegation.
And such is the tightness of...
