Laois County Enterprise Board held the annual Student Enterprise Awards in the Kyle Centre Portlaoise on March 5 2009.
Secondary school students competed to represent Laois in the National Student Enterprise Finals.
The three schools that reached the Laois County Finals...
John F Headen from Timahoe is well-versed in local history and times gone by. In the first of his columns for LaoisToday, he writes about some of the rituals from the 1950s and beyond, on the back of an...
Storm Jorge has come and (almost) gone, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake across the country.
The sporting fixtures have unsurprisingly been hit with both of Laois's National League fixtures affected.
The Laois hurlers make the short trip to...
This week for Property Watch we look at commercial properties for sale in Laois at the minute.
If you’re looking for a commercial space and are curious to see what is available have a look at the five properties below.
Market Square,...
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...
Crettyard GFC was recently selected to become involved in the Healthy Club Project 2020 along with two other clubs from Laois and 142 clubs nationwide.
The aim is to achieve official recognition as a Healthy Club by the GAA and...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Matthew (Matt) Kelly
Ashbourne, Meath/Ratoath, Meath/Dublin 15, Dublin/Errill, Laois
Kelly Matthew (Matt), (Ashbourne, Co. Meath and formerly of Glenville Drive, Dublin 15 and Errill, Co. Laois) February 29th. 2020,...
Inland Fisheries Ireland invite women to ‘Try Fishing’ pilot programme.
Fisheries Ireland will be running a number of events to give women in Laois and nationwide the opportunity to try fishing in 2020.
Well renowned angler and one of the world’s...
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will deliver the third annual Fr Peter Garvey Memorial Lecture in Cistercian College Roscrea next Wednesday, March 4.
The lecture takes place in the college at 6pm.
Archbishop Martin is the most influential Catholic prelate
in Ireland and is...
The Laois v Kildare Allianz Football League Division 2 game scheduled for MW Hire O'Moore Park this evening has been postponed due to the poor weather conditions.
The game had been due to take place in Portlaoise at 7pm but...
Laois dressing rooms after games with Kilkenny haven't been the most joyous of places over the years, but the tide changed as Laois recorded a famous victory over the Cats, who were reigning league champions, in the 1996 National...
1 - Four Laois Gardai among 201 new recruits to the force
Emo brothers Shane and Nigel Murphy, Rachel Murphy and Shauna Redmond were conferred at the ceremony.
2 - Laois County Council release ‘Severe Weather’ warning ahead of overnight rainfall
Laois...
Laois 1-14 Kildare 1-9
2003 Division 1 Football League
Tonight in O'Moore Park will be cold and dark and probably wet and windy, in keeping with fixtures in February.
It'll be a world of difference from when the sides met in the...
Patrick Harding is from The Rock but is currently living the high life in London.
Patrick has a very impressive CV from being a physio for Team GB’s Canoeing squad for the Rio Olympics to taking a break from travel...
Six days after the Laois senior footballers defeated Cavan in Ennis, they are back at home this evening against neighbours Kildare.
Mike Quirke’s men are heading back to MW Hire O'Moore Park at 7pm on Saturday evening February 29 to...
Child Abuse Material has been blocked from internet sites by An Garda Síochána and Irish Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Interpol "Worst Of" List (IWOL) contains domains that provide the most severe child sexual abuse material available on the open web....
The Cube The Battle of The Clubs was held recently, in The Castle Arms Hotel, Durrow, Laois.
The Charity partner for this year was The Deenview Centre Castlecomer.
The night started off with a warm welcome from “The Cube The Battle...
Following on from the news that Clough-Ballacolla have announced their new junior camogie team another club had done the same.
It will be the first year for St Lazerian's Abbeyleix to play adult level as they have announced their new...
Last Wednesday we began Lent, the season of reflection that leads us towards the three days of the Triduum, with Easter Sunday falling on April 12th.
It is a time to ask questions, pause time on a journey, a time...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Patricia Conroy
3 Garryard East, Silvermines, Nenagh, Tipperary/Mountmellick, Laois
Patricia Conroy, 3 Garryard East, Silvermines, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary and formerly of 52 O'Moore St., Mountmellick, Co. Laois, died 27th...
The Laois hurling team to play Kilkenny shows three changes from the side that beat Carlow to preserve their Division 1 status last weekend.
After a couple of sub appearances, Ronan Broderick from Clough-Ballacolla comes in for his first league...
Two Laois students have been elected as 'Regional Officers' for the Irish Second-level Students Union.
The region consists of three areas: Laois, Offaly and North Tipperary.
There are 37 secondary schools across these three areas with a total of around 17,000...
The Laois football team to take on Kildare in Round 5 of the Allianz Football League has been named and shows one change from the side that beat Clare in Ennis last week.
Laois are in action for the third...
A Status Orange wind warning is in place for Laois from 6am on Saturday until 3am on Sunday.
The warning is in place for the entire country with a red wind warning in place for Galway and Clare ahead of...
The TY group from Mountrath CS went on an enjoyable and educational trip to Dublin recently, where they visited Croke Park and Butlers Chocolate Factory.
The students took a guided tour of Croke Park where they learned about the history...
Pharmacies across the county have run out of hand sanitisers and face masks as the coronavirus spreads and so does the panic.
The first case of the Covid-19 virus on the island of Ireland has been confirmed with a woman...
There was disappointment on the double for Laois schools today as both Heywood CS and Portlaoise CBS U-16 footballers were knocked out of their respective championships.
Heywood CS were beaten by Rathangan in the South Leinster 'C' final while Portlaoise...
They're a hardy breed in Wolfhill and Jim Leech showed that this week when he played a game of hurling in his bare feet for his college this week.
The Ballypickas hurler was representing TU Dublin (formerly DIT) in the...
St Mary's CBS are delighted to present 'The Addams Family Musical.'
Following on from the success of ‘Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat’, St Mary's CBS are ready once again ready to delight audiences.
The cast and crew have been...
Gardaí are investigating an incident that saw an unconscious man found on the side of the road near Vicarstown this morning.
Four men were arrested and the unconscious man was brought to hospital by ambulance after being discovered early on...
