Outgoing Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan says that the 'vicious personal' attacks that he was subjected to over the last number of weeks did...
Park-Ratheniska/Timahoe celebrated their 2019 success last Saturday night in the Midland's Park Hotel, Portlaoise.
The hurlers of Park-Ratheniska/Timahoe won the Laois JHC ‘A’ title in...
Independent Cathal Berry made history yesterday evening as he became the first Portarlington-based TD to be elected to the Dail since 1927.
Berry, who is...
Two thousand people have booked to attend this Wednesday’s (February 12) inaugural Laois Jobs Fair.
The event, an initiative of Laois Chamber of Commerce, has...
Portlaoise 5 Our Lady’s Templeogue 0
Ladies Leinster Hockey League Division 9
Even the arrival of Storm Ciara didn’t dampen the spirits of Portlaoise Ladies Hockey...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Brenda Dunican (née Casey)
Killamuck, Abbeyleix, Laois
Wife of the late Peter and mother...
Fifteen candidates, five seats, 11 counts.
That's what it took to elect five TDs for the Laois-Offaly constituency who will now return to Dail Eireann.
After...
General Election 2020 has come to an end.
Laois-Offaly has returned five of the TDs and all of them were sitting when the Dail dissolved...
That Seán Fleming had to wait until the 11th and final count in Laois-Offaly to secure his seat in the 33rd Dáil is testament...
Independent candidate Carol Nolan has been re-elected to Dail Eireann on the 11th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
The Cadamstown woman, who was initially elected...
We're back for Day 2 of the General Election Count in Laois-Offaly.
The story across the country yesterday was one of the same - an...
Charlie Flanagan has been elected on the 10th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency having been put over the quota by his running mate Marcella...
There have been many shock results in the 2020 General Election but one of the bigger ones has been the defeat of Fianna Fail's...
Fine Gael's Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy has officially lost her seat following the 9th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
The distribution of Barry Cowen's surplus of 591...
The town of Portarlington has a TD for the first time in over 90 years following the election of independent candidate Dr Cathal Berry...
Fianna Fail's Barry Cowen has been re-elected to the Dail on the 8th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency following the distribution of the votes...
Kildare South is playing out as a bit of a nightmare for Fianna Fáil.
Instead of securing a gain which they had targeted they are...
He was tipped by many to win a seat before the election - but Peter Ormand is out of the race in Laois-Offaly.
The Fianna...
Brian Stanley, who topped the poll on the first count, is still the only person in the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected after six...
Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan has been elected on the sixth count in the Kildare South constituency.
She topped the poll last night but had to...
Portlaoise-based Labour candidate Noel Tuohy has been eliminated after the 5th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency with the elimination of Stephen Tynan's votes.
Cllr Tuohy,...
Outgoing Fianna Fail TD is back in third place in Kildare South following the elimination of her running mate Suzanne Doyle in the 5th...
There are certain words that are only used when there's an election on - quotas, tallies, surplus and counts.
As Day 2 of 2020 General...
Fianna Fail candidates benefited from over 1,300 of Pauline Flanagan's transfers on the fourth count in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
But there still has been nobody...
A Sinn Fein surge, they say. Scratch that. This was a tsunami. A tsunami of support that swept away everything in its political path.
Laois,...
Every so often an election throws up a result that history will remember in simple terms.
Jack Lynch’s landslide success with Fianna Fáil in 1977;...
After the wind and rain from Storm Ciara - it is now going to get very, very cold.
Met Eireann has issued a yellow snow/ice...
The Laois senior footballers Division 2 Round 3 clash against Cavan was postponed on Sunday as Storm Ciara left the MW Hire O'Moore Park...
This February the Irish Heart Foundation is calling on the people of Laois to go Red in support of the women of Laois
The Irish...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Dr Hugh (Hugo) Gath
Elm Lawn, Portlaoise, Laois/Kilcormac, Offaly
Hugo, Portlaoise, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly,...
