Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
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Anita BRENNAN (née Kealy)
Arles, Ballickmoyler, Carlow / Laois
Anita Brennan (née Kealy), Arles, Ballickmoyler, Co. Laois, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on December 5th, 2019, at...
Mountmellick Credit Union Ltd hosted a delegation from the Kenyan Credit Union movement recently.
The Irish credit union movement is one of the most popular credit union movements in the world, and other countries look to Ireland as they develop...
Laois Sports Partnership will be hosting a Rathdowney-Errill Activity Hub Workshop on Monday, December 16.
The workshop will take place in Rathdowney Community Centre at 8pm.
The event will give locals the chance to have their say in what they want...
Courtwood-Emo 1-15 Portarlington 0-16 (AET)
Laois Shopping Centre U-20 'A' Football Championship
Courtwood-Emo are the final winners of a championship in Laois for 2020 as they had to dig extremely deep to defeat Portarlington in the U-20 final in Stradbally tonight.
Michael...
Portarlington take on Courtwood-Emo in the U-20 Championship final in Stradbally tonight at 7:45pm.
Following on from strong performances from both sides in their semi-finals, it can only be assumed there is a very entertaining game in store.
After snow forced...
Athy Rugby Club - who have had countless Laois players and members over their long history - have secured public liability insurance after a long struggle - and fears surrounding their future have been averted for now.
The club wrote...
Gardaí wish to seek the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 16 year-old, Gearóid Morrissey, who is missing from Mountmellick.
Gearóid was last seen on Sunday last, December 1, in Mountmellick.
Gearóid is described as being 5’7’’ in height and...
This is outrageous!
Can anyone help find the statue's head?
Gardaí in Thurles are renewing their appeal for any information in relation to the criminal damage of a 100-year old statue at the Cathedral of Assumption in Thurles earlier this year.
It...
Mountrath CS 2-15 Naas CBS 2-13
Leinster B Senior Hurling quarter-final
Mountrath CS shook off Naas CBS this afternoon in an entertaining yet heated game.
Both sides were fired up from the get-go and made it clear they weren't walking away from...
Laois teenager Carly Fagan, 14, took to the stage at the Printworks, Dublin Castle on World Children’s Day recently to take part in Child Talks, a series of inspiring stories from children and young people.
Child Talks was hosted by...
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This week's addition to our Women in Sports segment is golf ace Mary Doyle.
Mary has been part of Leinster U-18 and Women's teams, U-18 and Women's Irish team for the...
Laois players are being encouraged to go along to the Women's National League trials tonight and if you think you have what it takes then now is your chance!
Below are the trial dates for all the Academy SSE Airtricity...
It took a divisive vote to clear the way for six new houses planned for Mountmellick.
While the vote itself was divisive it was also decisive at 12 to 7 in favour of the six new maisonettes to be provided...
Portarlington take on Courtwood-Emo in the U-20 Championship final in Stradbally tonight at 7:45pm.
Following on from strong performances from both sides in their semi-finals, it can only be assumed there is a very entertaining game in store.
After snow forced...
Ross Munnelly, Mark Timmons and Colm Begley will don the Laois jersey for the footballers in 2020 once again.
New Laois manager Mike Quirke confirmed that the trio had returned to the panel for the coming season which will begin...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Elizabeth (Lil) Buggie (née O'Keeffe)
Garrons, Stradbally, Laois
Peacefully surrounded by her loving family at Clover Lodge Nursing Home Athy. Loving wife of the late Martin and dear mother...
A young man Laois is holding a fundraising table quiz tonight ahead of a trip to Zambia in the summer of 2020.
The quiz will take place tonight at 8.30pm in Pedigree Corner. The cost for a team of four...
Keith Barry, the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist and brain hacker, is set to bring his brand new show 'INSANITY', to Laois early next year.
Keith will be in the Heritage Hotel in Killenard on Saturday January 11.
The internationally acclaimed...
New Laois football manager Mike Quirke has named five debutants in the Laois team to face Offaly in the opening round of the O'Byrne Cup on Saturday.
Laois take on their neighbours at 2pm in Portarlington - and there will...
Over the past months 5th/6th students from Portlaoise and surrounding areas have taken part in the town league.
The competition which is in its third year now is for the children who do not represent their school in Cumman Na...
The Laois U-20 ‘A’ football championship final is on this Friday night at 7.45pm in Stradbally.
Portarlington will take on Courtwood-Emo in the final and ahead of the game, we caught up with the versatile Colin Slevin.
After winning underage competitions...
The deaths have taken place of one of the county’s most senior citizens in his 102nd year and also of a former Mountmellick Town Commissioner.
Both of their funerals take place tomorrow, Friday, December 6.
Neville James (80) from Mountmellick served...
Minister for Education Joe McHugh visited Kolbe Special School in Portlaoise yesterday.
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan, Minister of Education Joe McHugh, Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley, Orla Mahon Principal of Kolbe and representatives from the Board of Management were...
Laois GAA County Secretary Niall Handy has hit out at the amount of abuse - physical, verbal and online - in his end of year report.
Writing in his secretary's report, Mr Handy said that incidence of abuse directed and...
Pat Shortt, one of Ireland's most loved comedians, will perform his new live show 'Hey' in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel this coming Saturday, December 7.
Following the sell-out successes of ‘The Hall’, ‘Selfie’ and ‘How’s Tings?’ and fresh from starring...
Laois farmers are out in force today as part of a major IFA protest outside Aldi's beef distribution centre in Naas.
Farmers are protesting over the price they are receiving for beef and Laois IFA chairman Francis Gorman described the...
IT company Nostra – who have clients in Ireland, UK, Benelux, South Africa and America and whose CEO is Kevin O’Loughlin from Rosenallis – are seeking to hire a number of suitable candidates for new roles to be based in Mountmellick.
IT...
Christmas is coming – and the team in Napper Tandy's in Stradbally are certainly getting into the spirit of things.
They’ll be hosting their Christmas Craft Fair for the second year running this Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8,...
A local rugby club that serves hundreds of underage and adult players say they will have to close the club and grounds from next week if they can't get insurance.
Athy Rugby Club, who have had countless Laois players and...
The Laois senior footballers will begin life under Mike Quirke on Saturday with Round 1 of the O'Byrne Cup against Offaly - but two of their main forwards for the last number years will not be present.
Arles-Killeen brothers Donie...
