To celebrate their 40th year in business, Finline Furniture have joined creative forces with fellow Irish interiors brand, Foxford Woollen Mills, for their latest furniture range.
Under the artistic direction of award-winning Irish fashion designer, Helen McAlinden, the collaboration marries...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Eddie (The Bunman) Clare
Ballaghmore, Borris-in-Ossory, Laois / Roscrea, Tipperary / Borris, Carlow
Eddie Clare, Ballaghmore, Borris in Ossory, Co. Laois. (R32 HX96) and formerly of Dunroe, Borris, Co....
Portlaoise CBS U-19 basketball team came away from the National Stadium in Tallaght as All-Ireland U-19 'A' League bronze medalists yesterday.
The side, coached by Mr Peter Duignan and Sixth Year student Liam Kinsella, began the day in the All-Ireland...
It was a cold winter Sunday morning around Laois but it was dry as huge crowds attended The Great Heath at the weekend.
Hundreds gathered to take part in the annual run, which once again had 10km and 5km options,...
A promising young goalkeeper from Laois will play in the League of Ireland this year having signed for Wexford Youths in recent days.
21-year-old Joseph Walshe, from The Heath, has put pen to paper with the South East club who...
Dundalk IT was the venue for the final cross country event of the 2018/2019 season.
All Laois, Leinster and National Cross country championships are now complete, all that remains are the Leinster and National Secondary Schools competitions.
Sunday's programme featured the...
You can take the man out of Laois but you can’t take the Laois out of the man, and if Waterford bound Kieran Kehoe doesn’t head shortly to take up his new post the signs are he won’t be...
Laois could go green and other counties could be green with envy if Laois County Council embrace a proposal put forward by Cllr Mary Sweeney.
The Ballyroan councillor has mooted the idea that Laois should replicate the Tourism Ireland Global...
A table quiz and a sponsored run have raised €3,505 for the Special Care Baby Unit in Portlaoise Hospital.
Sinead Kiely ran the table quiz at the end of last year while Paul Twomey did the “Raw Ultra Wicklow Way 100 mile...
It may be only the start of February, but this news has got us dreaming of those lovely Electric Picnic days at the start of September.
The Electric Picnic has announced the date that they will make their first line-up...
Nurses and midwives from the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, have joined in with the 37,000 others on day two of 24-hour strike action.
This comes after talks between the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (IMNO) and Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and...
On Wednesday evening at 9pm on Virgin Media One, a documentary called Inside Ireland’s Biggest Prison: True Lives will be shown on your TV screens.
For just over a year, film-makers were allowed behind the walls of the Midlands Prison Portlaoise to...
The success story of the Payroll Shared Services Centre at Laois County Council continues with 12 additional staff to be added immediately to cater for an expansion of their operations. There are already 85 employees at the Centre, based...
Sunday was a tough debut for Laois Ladies football manager David Gibson and his young side as they came up against a dominant Armagh team.
However Gibson believes there are positives to take out of the day.
"It was a tough...
A Castletown man is set to manage the relatively recently formed hurling club of Park-Ratheniska/Timahoe.
David Cuddy has been appointed manager of the newest hurling club in the county.
Former Laois hurler and seven-time county champion Cuddy was involved with his...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Philomena (Phil) Byrne (née O'Connell)
Sandycove, Dublin / Rathdowney, Laois
BYRNE (née O’Connell) (late of Sandycove, Co. Dublin and Rathdowney, Co Laois) February 3, 2019, (peacefully) in the kind...
The Heritage Hotel in Killenard was the place to be on Saturday night as Courtwood GAA celebrated a historic 2018 season.
The Dinner Dance drew a huge crowd from the Laois club as players, family members and supporters gathered to...
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum was awarded the Best Entrepreneurial Tourism Innovation Award at 2019 Irish Tourism Industry Awards.
The Awards, organised by the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC), Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland, gathered the ‘crème de la crème’...
General Practitioners in Laois are set to join their colleagues from around the country on Wednesday February 6 in a mass protest.
Hundreds of GPs from every part of Ireland will be holding a mass protest outside Dáil Éireann.
This will...
Portlaoise 1 (0) Three Rock Rovers 1 (2)
Leinster Division 9-10 Cup Quarter Final
Portlaoise Ladies Hockey Club narrowly missed out on progressing to the Semi-Finals of the Leinster Division 9-10 Cup after an enthralling battle against Three Rock Rovers 3rd...
And with that they were gone. The controversial ‘Gaels’ teams that were allowed to operate in Laois for the last three years - and prior to that in the late 90s/early 00s - were ruled out of order last...
Laois TD Brian Stanley spoke about Sinn Féin's 'No Consent No Sale' Bill in the Dáil last night.
Speaking on the Bill, Deputy Stanley said: “The aim of this bill from Sinn Féin is simple. It means that a mortgage...
The man who was Ireland's first black mayor is set to run in this year's Local Elections in Portlaoise.
LaoisToday understands that the Nigerian-born Rotimi Adebari, who was elected as the Mayor of Portlaoise in 2007, will once again throw...
The Laois footballers lost their first league game since 2017 on Saturday in Croke Park against Louth.
This should have been a home game for Laois but a breach of training rules last season saw the GAA punish them by...
One of the worst ever illegal dumping cases in the county has been highlighted at the monthly council meeting with the Chief Executive, John Mulholland himself publically pledging that it will be tackled.
The matter was raised by Cllr Caroline...
Laois hurling manager Eddie Brennan says his side must get 'cuter' and more 'streetwise' - but he was pleased with the attitude shown against Waterford in O'Moore Park on Sunday.
Coming seven days after a decent showing against Galway, he...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Baby Tom Sheppard Plenderleith
D15, Castleknock, Dublin / Durrow, Laois
Baby Tom 29/05/2018 - 02/02/2019. Forever Remembered by Mam Stephanie, Dad Stephen family & friends. Mass at 12 noon...
Mountmellick Utd 28 Raharney Utd 4
CCFL Futsal Cup
Mountmellick Utd have won the first ever CCFL Futsal Cup after a 24-goal victory over Westmeath's Raharney Utd.
The side, overseen by Tommy Christie and player-manager Mark Grennan, topped Group A after comprehenisve...
After a longer than normal winter break this season, the Combined Counties Football League got back to action this weekend.
As the League introduced their new Futsal Cup competition over the winter break, Laois were represented by Mountmellick Utd against Westmeath's Raharney...
It was always likely that the Laois hurlers were going to struggle against Waterford in their Allianz Hurling League Division 1B game on Sunday in O'Moore Park - the Deise in an All Ireland final as recently as 2017...