Burger King has now opened for business at Applegreen Junction 17.
Conveniently located off Junction 17 on the main M7/M8 Motorway, just outside Portlaoise, Burger...
A Senior Environmental official from the HSE has found there is 'no case to answer' following the circulation of some disturbing images purporting to...
This would warm your heart.
For the last six weeks, a group of Transition Year students from St Mary's CBS Portlaoise have visited a nursing...
Laois GAA Congress delegates will vote for Carlow native Jim Bolger in the Presidential election this weekend.
There are five candidates in the hunt to...
Club secretary for Crettyard LGFA Eoin Delaney was awarded with Young Volunteer of the Year by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association recently.
Eoin was presented...
Laois delegates to the GAA's annual conrgess in Cavan this weekend will vote against the proposal that would see the Black Card sin bin...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Dermot Leahy
Ballyreilly House, Borris-in-Ossory, Laois
Dermot Leahy, Ballyreilly House, Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois, February...
The draws have been made for this year’s Laois football championships.
Portlaoise will begin their quest for four-in-a-row with a meeting with Ballylinan, who will...
Defending Laois SHC champions Rathdowney-Errill have been drawn with neighbours Clough-Ballacolla, Abbeyleix and Castletown in the 2020 Laois SHC.
The draws were made tonight in...
More than 140 students from 1st Year exhibited forty four projects in SciFest@School in Portlaoise College recently.
This was the school’s first time hosting the...
Laois Offaly Garda Síochána posted to their facebook page yesterday about checkpoints carried out on school buses.
Laois Roads Policing Unit carried out a checkpoint...
A fundraising fun run will take place in Emo this weekend in aid of a young Laois nurse who was injured in Australia before...
The students and teachers at Holy Family Senior School are preparing to release a CD in aid of suicide prevention charity Teac Tom.
'Tomorrow's a...
Scoil Chríost Rí 53 Loreto Abbey 41
Schools U-19 ‘A’ Girls League Final
Just over a month since they last tasted All-Ireland basketball success, Scoil Chriost...
Local forecaster, Alan O'Reilly of Carlow Weather, predicts that another storm is on its way to Ireland.
The storm is predicted to hit this Saturday...
The Leinster Regional Final of the Irish Restaurant Awards took place in the Knightsbrook Hotel last night where the top restaurants in each county...
Supermac’s are seeking Full-Time Catering Assistants to join the team for their new Portlaoise Plaza which will open in May 2020.
This plaza will join...
The scenario.
It’s the week or so after Christmas or New Years.
You load up the wine, beer and mineral bottles in boxes in the boot...
Former Laois senior football manager Mick Lillis has been appointed as the new Ballylinan boss for the 2020 season.
Lillis, who was over the Laois...
To help improve respiratory hygiene in schools and crèches, the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has developed eye-catching new posters which have been...
The next generation of All Star hurlers and camogie players were put through their paces by a true camogie legend to mark the launch...
St Conleth's LGFC are running a 5k road race on Sunday March 1 at 11am.
This is the first of what they hope will be...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Rita Norton (née Malone)
Roseberry Court, Newbridge, Kildare / Portlaoise, Laois
Formerly of Clonkeen,...
St Colmans NS in Stradbally are hosting a Lip Sync battle as part of a series of fundraisers organised to develop the school’s pitch...
DB Promotions presents 'Songs For Charity' concert in aid of of the Cuisle Centre, Portlaoise.
The Charity concert will take place on Friday, March 13...
Heywood CS 1-16 Ballymahon VS (Longford) 1-11
Top Oil Schools Leinster ‘C’ Senior Football Championship Semi Final
Heywood are through to the Leinster 'C' Senior schools...
The Laois hurlers have forfeited home advantage for their final league game against Kilkenny on Sunday.
Eddie Brennan's charges had been due to face The...
One of the highlights of the local social calendar is set to return to The Heritage in Killenard this Friday night, February 28, for...
The Main Street in Portlaoise should be pedestrianised was the view expressed by both a retail expert and a landscape designer during Newstalk's Down...
The Coronavirus or COVID19 is starting to spread across the globe.
After originally breaking out in China, in Wuhan to be exact, it has now...
