Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Julia (Ciss) Horan (née Carroll)
1 Church View, Portarlington, Laois/Portlaoise, Laois
Formerly The New Road, Portlaoise. Peacefully at the Regional Hospital Portlaoise. Loving wife of the late Joe. Deeply...
Rathdowney Errill 1-19 Portlaoise 2-15
2008 Laois SHC Final
The Rathdowney and Errill GAA clubs came together to form a new club in 2005 and had success almost straight away.
They won the Laois senior hurling title for the first time in...
Portlaoise student, Frank Flanagan received a prestigious prize this week after being announced as one of the best Maths student in Ireland.
Frank received an award known as the ‘Hamilton’ award in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin this week.
Every...
Calls have been made for more lights to be erected in Attanagh Village at the recent Municipal District meeting of the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick district.
Indpendent Cllr Ollie Clooney called for the lights after describing Attanagh as 'Ireland's darkest village' with just...
Anyone who works, lives or drives through Portlaoise on a daily basis knows that you avoid the Stradbally Road into the town at all costs between 8.20am and after 9am.
However, for those who have children attending any of the...
If you have children and you haven't yet checked out Castleview Open Farm in Cullohill, which opened during the summer, you're missing out big time.
The Saunders family opened the Open Farm, set on 14 acres with an additional two...
Funeral details have been announced for the late Kevin Culleton from Portlaoise, who died suddenly in Lanzarote last week.
Mr Culleton, who was only in his early 60s, passed away while on a family holiday.
A retired prison officer, he was...
Due to the growth in student numbers at Dunamase College planning has commenced to make the Further Education and Training Centre across the road at Tower Hill part of the school facilities from September 2020 to meet the demand...
There are extra Garda on duty across Laois, there is a greater Garda visibility and there will be additional Garda deployed in the county over the coming months.
That was the generally positive assessment and outlook delivered by the top...
Could Portlaoise have the best public transport in Ireland? Could Portlaoise be a cycling town?
The future of commuting, the role of electric bikes and tax breaks on public transport are just some of the topics up for discussion with...
The Labour Party in Laois-Offaly held its constituency meeting in Kavanagh’s in Portlaoise this week.
At the meeting JP O’Mahony was re-elected for another term as constituency Chairperson and Eoin Barry was re-elected as Secretary and Area Representative for the Graiguecullen-Portarlington...
The Laois senior hurling final takes place this Sunday at 4pm in O'Moore Park.
Borris-Kilcotton are up against Rathdowney-Errill and ahead of the game, we caught up with the man who will be between the sticks - Eoin Fleming.
The Borris-Kilcotton...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Kevin Culleton
Dublin Rd, Portlaoise, Laois
Culleton, ‘Brittas Lodge’, Dublin Rd, Portlaoise and late of Winsdor, Camross and Brittas, Clonaslee, 10th October 2019. Suddenly, in Lanzarote. Kevin, dearly loved...
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common but often unidentified condition.
Children with DLD can struggle to understand what is said to them and to be understood. DLD is often mistaken for poor behaviour and complicated by co-occurring attention, motor...
Laois Marlins where made a big splash at the Leinster Development Gala last Sunday October 6 in the National Aquatic Center.
A squad of 39 swimmers took part from Laois Marlins.
This is the largest number from the club to ever...
The Laois Ladies have a brand new manager as former Laois footballer Donie Brennan will take charge of the team in 2020.
The Arles-Killeen native, who works as a Games Development Administrator for Laois GAA, will succeed David Gibson who...
This is a significant development.
Borris-in-Ossory based Fine Gael County Councillor Conor Bergin has welcomed the approval in principle of €2,111,032 funding to Laois County Council for the provision of eleven new social homes at Main Street in the village.
Reacting...
The Rosenallis hurlers are looking to complete another memorable season for the club when they take on The Harps this Sunday in the Laois SHC 'A' final in O'Moore Park.
It's only three years since the club did the intermediate...
The Laois domestic football season came to a close on Sunday as we had two finals to conclude things.
Up first, we had the minor final between Ballyroan-Abbey and Emo-Courtwood which was an absolute thriller.
Emo-Courtwood were crowned Laois minor football...
This years annual 80's night in Stradbally will take place this weekend in Rams Bar.
The 80's themed night will be held on Saturday night in aid of Teac Tom.
This is a community based suicide prevention mental health awareness &...
A public meeting to discuss plans by Bord na Móna to construct an anaerobic digester waste facility at its Cúil na Móna site at Togher, just outside Portlaoise will be held on Thursday 17 October at 8pm in the...
The full squad lists of players that will take part in this year's football Divisional Competition have been announced.
A total of 126 players have been split into four different districts in the county.
North, South, East and West will play...
Planning permission has been submitted for 21 new housing units on the Station Road in Portarlington beside the Odlum's Factory where a development was previously started but never completed.
Milennial Homes Ltd, which is owned by father-and-son duo Pat and...
This looks so good.
Join Julie of Wild Food Kildare and Jennifer from Ballintubbert Gardens for this exclusive one-off event in the beautiful Ballintubbert House on Sunday, October 20, from 2pm to 5.30pm.
Dating back to the late 18th century, Ballintubbert...
Paralympic swimmer Nicole Turner has her sights set on Tokyo as she is ramping up preparations for the 2020 Paralympics in Japan in August of next year.
The 17-year-old from Portarlington and a student in Colaiste Iosagain has decided to...
Laois were to the fore in the Lancashire football championship at the weekend as O'Dempsey's man Thomas 'Clue' Finlay captained Oisin of Manchester to the three in a row.
The O'Dempsey's man was in fine form as his side ended...
This week’s Car of the Week in Downey’s Autostop is a 161 Ford Fiesta which is available to buy for €12,500.
This 1.5 litre diesel car has 55,612 miles/89,496 km.
The annual road tax is €180.
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Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
JP (John Patrick) O’Mara
Sampsonscourt, Ballinakill, Laois
JP died peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family. Deeply regretted by his loving wife Margaret, son Brendan, daughters Kay,...
CCFL Division 3A Result
Abbeyleix AFC 1 - 0 Killeigh
A fantastic game played out by both teams in Fr Breen Park this morning in perfect weather conditions, this game was an early season top of the table clash as second...
Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has called for the introduction of a Living Wage of €12.30 an hour.
The Laois-Offaly TD was speaking in the Dáil last evening in favour of a Sinn Féin motion which called on all parties...
