T&S United juvenile soccer club held their annual awards evening in Timahoe Hall at the weekend.
Last season, the club fielded seven teams in the Midlands Schoolboys League from U-9 to U-14.
Girls and boys are catered for together while they...
Revenue officers at Portlaoise Mails Centre seized drugs worth €27,000 yesterday.
Following routine profiling, 54kgs of khat was seized by officers from a number of parcels originating from Ethiopia and Kenya.
The parcels, some of which were declared as ‘clothing’, were...
The 7th Annual running of 'Make Kaelem's Day green Charity Golf day' takes place in Portarlington Golf club on Friday September 27, 2019.
Kaelem Hainsworth passed away on November 22 from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
Since Kaelem's sad and unexpected passing,...
The Harps 7-3 St Brigids 5-2
Laois Camoige U-14 A Championship Final
The Harps and St Brigids provided spectators with a nail-biting final in Mountrath on Sunday evening last.
St Brigids led for the first twenty minutes, but it was The...
The Heritage Spa at The Heritage in Laois has scooped the award for “Best in Body Care” at the Irish Tatler Spa Awards 2019, which took place earlier this week, on Monday 23rd September.
The Heritage Spa won the award...
Director Michael Creagh and his cast of 35 children will present their brand new show this Saturday September 28 in Donaghmore Museum Rooms at 5pm.
There is some confusion around the date and time of the pageant after last minute...
Laois Chamber of Commerce have met with an international agri company with the view of bringing jobs to Laois in the near future.
The new Chamber of Commerce president Martin Crowley, who set up his meat distribution business Wilbay Ltd...
Laois 2-9 Leitrim/Longford 1-16
All-Ireland Masters Shield Final
The Laois Masters lads came up short on Saturday in the Shield final against Longford/Leitrim in Roscommon.
It brings to an end a very memorable first year for this Over-40s competing in this competition.
Organised...
This week’s Car of the Week in Downey’s Autostop is a 161 Ford Focus which is available to buy for €14,500.
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Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Kathleen Wall (née Lalor)
Boley, Abbeyleix, Laois
Peacefully, at the Regional Hospital Portlaoise. Wife of the late Donal. Deeply regretted by her loving daughters Pauline and Anna, sons-in-law Mick...
The CCFL season is now well and truly in motion as entered week 4.
Here is all of the latest results and fixtures that are coming up.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Senior Division
Derry Rovers A 5 Walsh Island Shamrocks 1
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Senior Division
Tullamore...
As part of the National Climate Action Plan ESB Networks will replace 2.4 million electricity meters with next generation smart meters in every home, farm and business across Ireland by the end of 2024.
The introduction of this new technology...
Park-Ratheniska-Timahoe claimed their first ever adult title on Saturday evening when they defeated The Harps in the Junior decider.
Park-Ratheniska and Timahoe had soldiered for years separately as hurling clubs in a part of the county where football is Number...
What a massive achievement!
Portlaoise Ladies traveled to an extremely wet Navan on Sunday evening last to face Torro United in the Martin Byrne Women's Shield Semi Final.
Portlaoise had to travel with quite a depleted squad due to numerous commitments...
If the official launch of the Laois Chamber of Commerce is anything to go by - when there was standing room only and a crowd of close to 300 people - then the new organisation is in for a...
Cignal, the country’s newest provider of telecommunications infrastructure, is completing an investment in excess of €2m building new telecoms towers in Laois as part of a €25m nationwide investment programme.
The investment was announced at the Laois Chamber of Commerce’s...
The hurling really cranked up a few notches at the weekend with ten games taking place.
We had four county finals down for decision on Saturday and Camross won three of them.
They claimed a remarkable camogie success by winning both...
In recent times, family structures in Ireland have changed beyond what would have been considered the ‘traditional’ family unit; that of a man and a woman who are both in their first marriage.
Two of the biggest influencers have been constitutional...
The Laois Camogie championships came to an end at the weekend with Camross coming out on top in both finals.
First up was the Junior final between Camross and Portlaoise. Both sides played out of their skin with eight goals...
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The launch of Calendar Girls took place on Saturday night last in Eddie Kirwans pub, Mountrath.
The atmosphere from early evening was electric, everyone was buzzing with an anticipation to the build up of the 'Big Reveal'.
The Special guest of...
Clonaslee-St Manman's have been stripped of the Junior 'C' hurling title after it emerged that they fielded two ineligible players.
They defeated neighbours Rosenallis in the decider back in August by 2-11 to 2-7 but they did so with two...
This week’s Car of the Week from Joe Mallon Motors is a 192 Renault Kadjar.
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We're getting down to the nitty gritty in the football championships now.
Saturday will see the conclusion on the Junior and Intermediate competitions while Sunday sees the senior semi finals.
Check out all of the games below:
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
Midlands Park Hotel...
All roads will lead to Emo GAA Field next Wednesday, September 25th, for the annual Downeys Suzuki Laois Athletics Primary Schools Cross Country races.
This event is aimed at primary school children in the senior half of their schools and...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Anne Hughes (née McEnanay)
Oaklawn, Portlaoise, Laois / Shercock, Cavan
Hughes (nee McEnanay) OakLawn, Portlaoise and late of Shercock, Co. Cavan, 19th September. Peacefully, surrounded by her loving family....
This was a brilliant night with a huge crowd in attendance across the county.
The 2019 edition of Culture Night took place last Friday all over Laois.
There was a wide variety of free arts and culture events for people of...
The almost biblical-style rain on Sunday failed to dampen the spirits of the hardy sorts that turned out in Oughaval Woods in Stradbally for the fund-raising walk for a well-known local charity.
The Teac Tom charity supports families who have...
There was a great buzz of excitement, anticipation and energy at the official opening of a new exhibition in the Laois Arthouse Gallery in Stradbally.
This latest body of work by ceramic artist Cathy Whelan caused quite a stir and...
