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,...
Counting has concluded for the night in the Kildare South constituency - with a three-way battle taking place for the last seat.
Outgoing Fianna Fail...
Day 1 of General Election 2020 has come to an end - and what a roller-coaster it has been.
The story across the country was...
Counting in the Laois-Offaly constituency has been postponed until Monday morning with the elimination of Fianna Fail's Pauline Flanagan and no further elections.
The distribution...
Independent Carol Nolan - a former member of the Sinn Fein party - has strengthened her grip on the fifth seat in the Laois-Offaly...
The big day is finally here. After weeks (and years in some cases) of planning, campaigning, canvassing and finally voting - we can now...
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There have been big election results before - but this one is like never before.
The people...
Laois-Offaly Fianna Fail candidate Barry Cowen has labelled the huge surge in Sinn Fein support as a 'costly punt'.
Mr Cowen, who is well placed...
Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan is on course for election in the Kildare South constituency.
Voters from Portarlington, Killenard and Ballybrittas took part in this constituency...
Brian Stanley has become the first person from the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected to the 33rd Dail.
The Sinn Fein candidate has topped the...
Sinn Fein are also on course to top the poll in the Kildare South constituency with the Monasterevin candidate Patricia Ryan set to take...
Pippa Hackett recorded The Green Party's best ever vote in Laois-Offaly as first count results were published this evening - but it will not...
"You could go on holidays and still get elected for Sinn Féin," a shrewd political observer said to me during the week.
It turns out...
As in keeping with the huge increase in support for Sinn Féin nationally, Laois’s Brian Stanley is on course to top the poll in...
Sinn Fein's Brian Stanley is set to break 16,000 votes and have almost 5,000 of a surplus, according to the final tallies compiled by...
Brian Stanley to increase vote by almost double
Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy to lose out
Carol Nolan leads the way for fifth seat
Sean Fleming,...
Storm Ciara is raging across the country at the moment and is leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
A substantial amount of rain...
1 - Outrage as ‘tyres, nappies and stale pizza’ dumped outside Laois village
There was a disgusting incident of dumping in Laois last weekend.
2 -...
Today's meeting between the Laois and Cavan senior footballers in the Allianz Football League Division 2 has been called off due to a waterlogged...
This week for Property Watch we look at homes in Laois that are under €100,000.
If that sounds like your budget, then we recommend you look...
This Tuesday, February 11, is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and also World day of Prayer for the Sick.
Behind many hall-doors in...
The South Leinster Schools Cross Country Championships proved to be a mixed bag for Knockbeg Colleges athletes.
Held in Carlow Hurling Club, they didn't have...
Sinn Féin are on course for their greatest ever General Election performance - both in terms of percentage vote and overall seats won -...
There's an Orange weather warning across the entire country from 5am on Sunday morning - and that has had a considerable effect on a...
Gardai have seized over €250,000 worth of cannabis as well as a cocaine press in a raid on a house in Kildangan in Kildare...
