The Laois GAA club championships are continuing at full speed - with the senior football now down to the quarter-final stage, the senior hurling down to the last round of group games and four of the junior trophies handed...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Patrick (Paddy) Dowling
Ballyfin Road, Mountrath, Laois/Camross, Laois
Patrick (Paddy) Dowling, Ballyfin Road, Mountrath (Eircode R32 Y620) and formerly of Camross, Co. Laois. Aug. 27. 2019. Peacefully at the...
With the Laois junior football championship quarter-finals down for decision this evening, we look ahead to the three games taking place.
The other quarter-final between Spink and Castletown will take place next week.
O'Dempsey's v Kilcavan
In Mountmellick at 7pm*
* Note change...
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Spink 2-12 Killeshin 1-11
Laois Shopping Centre JFC Round 3
Goals from Daniel Bergin and Paul Simms helped Spink to a Round 3 Laois JFC replay win over Killeshin in Crettyard this evening.
The sides...
Relatively speaking, Mountrath is a big town.
But their hurling club has been starved of success while their neighbouring clubs on so many occasions and in a number of different grades have tasted silverware.
Camross are non-stop winning championships of some...
Anyone who has ever driven from Portlaoise to Carlow will know all about the winding roads around Arles - so it'll come as good news that Laois County Council have signed the contract for the N80 Maidenhead Realignment scheme.
The...
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Panda has pledged that this year’s Electric Picnic will see zero waste going to landfill and 100% of waste collected will be recovered through recycling or energy generation after agreeing a new...
Vigils to mark World Suicide Prevention Day will be held throughout the Midlands at the locations of the ‘Trees of Hope’ which were planted last year.
World Suicide Prevention Day is an opportunity for all of us to play our...
CJ Sheeran is Ireland’s largest manufacturer and recycler of timber packaging and pallets, providing a premium quality, sustainable and accredited packaging solution to Ireland and the UK’s diverse network of pallet consumers.
The company also manufactures garden, farm and equine...
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And here we have it – our second list!
After hundreds and hundreds of nominations and days of deliberations, our judging panel bring you the list of the ten hottest Golden...
Beef farmers are continuing to protest outside Dawn Meats in Rathdowney despite an injunction from the High Court, taken by two of the meat factories, to prevent action at the plants.
Up to 40 farmers have been protesting individually in...
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The Electric Picnic is just TWO sleeps away and we can barely contain our excitement as 57,000 music enthusiasts get ready to descend upon Stradbally.
But yesterday, two of LaoisToday’s finest, Alan and...
Gardai in Laois have launched an appeal for information after a parochial house in Laois was ransacked.
The incident took place in Rath, Ballybrittas on Tuesday at sometime between 12.45pm and 3.10pm.
Gardai say: "The Parochial house in Rath, Ballybrittas, County...
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It is Electric Picnic week and we are now just two days away from the big festival.
And this news this morning has only revved our excitement levels up further.
On Monday morning, The...
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These throwback pictures from Alf Harvey's locker of Electric Picnics gone by have proved incredibly popular.
And so we are back with another installment - this time from 2010.
This was the seventh edition of...
This week's Car of the Week in Downey's Autostop is a 181 Kia Picanto which is available to buy for €15,900.
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The Laois hurlers winning the Joe McDonagh Cup final in Croke Park in June was a treasured moment in a magical season.
But there was one disappointing element, which was raised by Laois Cumann na mBunscol chairman and Clough-Ballacolla clubman...
Laois senior football captain Stephen Attride’s second Summer Camp took place last week and it was huge success once more.
SA Summer Camp was a multi-activity summer camp that was held in Killeshin.
The camp ran each day from 10am –...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
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Harry Allen
Sydney, Australia and formerly Doone, Kilbricken, Mountrath
Harry Allen died in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday last at the age of 90. He is survived by his wife...
Laois Sawmills are now recruiting for Loader Driver and General Operatives for night shift work.
Laois Sawmills Limited is based on the outskirts of Portlaoise and is a state of the art sawmill processing 100,000 tonnes of log material annually.
These...
Mountmellick 4-10 Trumera 2-12
Laois Shopping Centre IHC Quarter-final replay
The Mountmellick hurlers have continued their great championship run as they booked a place in the intermediate championship semi-final against Borris-Kilcotton on the weekend after next.
Having won the Junior 'B' title...
Camross 0-12 Mountrath 0-19
Laois Shopping Centre JHC 'B' Final
Mountrath are the 2019 Laois Shopping Centre Junior 'B' champions after a well-earned victory in O'Moore Park this evening over their close neighbours and rivals Camross.
The result completes a league and...
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Electric Picnic organiser Melvin Benn has explained the decision to move the popular Salty Dog area of the festival to inside the arena at today's press launch on the site in Stradbally.
Local...
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And here we have it - our first list!
After hundreds and hundreds of nominations and days of deliberations, our judging panel bring you the list of the ten hottest red...
Are you thinking of repeating your Leaving Cert? If you are you should consider the repeat Leaving Cert programme in Portlaoise College.
We offer an intensive one year programme to repeat Leaving Certificate students.
Our one-year repeat Leaving Certificate programme offers...
A Laois man has been honoured by the St Vincent de Paul of England and Wales for his great contribution as a member of the organisation for 50 years.
Since joining the St Vincent de Paul in Ruislip, London...
September 2004 marked Stradbally's first ever Electric Picnic festival.
Headlining the music festival in the Cosby Estate were 2 Many DJs. Other acts included Groove Armada, Arrested Development, Jurassic5, Grand Master Flash, Super Furry Animals, Plump DJ's, David Kitt, Soulwax...
Theres great excitement this week Retail giant JYSK (pronounced “yoosk”) is set to open at Laois Shopping Centre at 9am on Friday August 30th
The store fit-out is almost complete with local staff now working on filling the shelves with stock...
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It is Electric Picnic week and we are now just three days away from the big festival.
And this news this morning has only revved our excitement levels up further.
Yesterday morning, The Irish...
