It's Income Tax time again: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms and sharpen up the pencil.
Paying more tax than is absolutely necessary is absolute robbery. Over the next two weeks, I would suggest to all who...
October has been designated Laois TASTE Month with a range of events organised to showcase what the county has to offer.
There is something for everyone, whether you have your own food/drink business, are thinking of setting up a new business or...
Every Sunday, we look back on the top stories of the previous week on LaoisToday.
And as always, it was another wide and varied week. Among the top stories of the past seven days were the Electric Picnic, two Laois...
The game itself was very disappointing - but the finish couldn't have been any more dramatic.
As the Laois SHC semi-final ticked into injury time, Camross led Rathdowney-Errill by 0-17 to 0-15 and looked to be on their to a...
Rathdowney-Errill 1-15 Camross 0-17
Laois Shopping Centre SHC Semi-final
You couldn't make it up. What drama.
Exactly a year after suffering serious dental damage in the 2018 county final loss to Camross, Ross King popped up with an injury time goal to...
Borris-Kilcotton 0-25 Clough-Ballacolla 1-15
Laois Shopping Centre SHC semi-final
Borris-Kilcotton are through to the Laois SHC final following a hard-earned win over Clough-Ballacolla in O'Moore Park this afternoon.
PJ Scully helped himself to 18 points as Borris-Kilcotton booked their final place for the...
At the start of the championship if you'd been offered this double header as the semi-final pairings of the Laois SHC you'd certainly have taken it.
The four big clubs of Laois hurling have never all qualified for the semi-finals...
The Back to School photos never fail to disappoint.
And Alf Harvey's archives have once again thrown up some absolute gems.
We dipped into his September 2004 files this week and the photos from the first week of that months provided...
There are a number of jobs in Laois being advertised on LaoisToday at the moment.
Below we have listed all of the roles advertised on LaoisToday in the last two weeks. In each instance you can click through to the full job...
Laois SHC Semi-final - Borris-Kilcotton v Clough-Ballacolla
In O'Moore Park at 2.30pm
Neighbours Clough-Ballacolla and Borris-Kilcotton meet in the first game in O'Moore Park today with both sides looking to book a final place following decent championship form to date.
Clough-Ballacolla topped...
There has been a warm welcome at the County Council for the adoption of the Laois Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.
However, there were shades of Saint Augustine’s ‘save me Lord, but not just yet’, in the nature of the discourse...
On this week's property watch, we go in the other direction to Mountrath. The area boasts some beautiful house and sites and below we have listed five of our favourites that are currently on the market.
82 Rush Hall
Property Partners...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Mary Keenan (née O'Rourke)
Gash Gardens, Castletown, Laois
Mary Keenan (nee O'Rourke), Gash Gardens, Castletown, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. October 4. 2019. Peacefully surrounded by her loving family in the...
It was a very busy and wet Saturday on the GAA front.
We had two county finals down for decision, a host of semi finals and some U-20 football games.
Check out the results below:
RESULTS
Laois SHC ‘A’ Semi-final
Colt 0-9 Rosenallis 3-15...
Rosenallis 3-15 Colt 0-9
Laois Shopping Centre SHC 'A' Semi Final
Rosenallis's bid for a football and hurling championship double remains on track as they dismantled Colt in O'Moore Park this evening.
Right from the start, Rosenallis were on top and when...
Abbeyleix Gaels 1-11 The Harps 3-13
Midlands Park Hotel Minor 'A' Hurling Championship Final
The Harps have avenged their county final loss from 12 months ago as the excellent Conor Delaney turned in a man of the match display to see...
We're only got three more weekends of matches left in O'Moore Park and we have two big games to bring you this evening.
The action gets underway in Laois GAA HQ at 5.15pm as Abbeyleix Gaels face The Harps in...
The Harps 3-9 Rathdowney-Errill 1-0
Midlands Park Hotel U-13 'A' Hurling Championship Final
Justin Duggan and Eoin Murphy were the stars of the show as The Harps defeated Rathdowney-Errill to claim the U-13 'A' hurling title in the LOETB Centre of...
This week is the celebration of St Francis of Assissi who is the patron saint of animals and they've come up with a novel idea to mark that in Abbeyleix this Sunday.
At 2pm on the grounds of the Abbeyleix...
Colt 0-16 Borris-in-Ossory 2-6
2008 Laois IHC Final
The Colt hurlers lost more than fair share of intermediate finals in the 2000s so when they finally got over the line in 2008 it was understandable that there was a considerable outpouring...
A meeting of Laois County Council has heard that the local authority had to plough almost €200k of its own funds into road works to facilitate preparations for this year’s Ploughing Championships, which were held in Carlow.
The local authority...
A young Laois man has opening up about his struggles with gambling and how betting led him to trying to take his own life.
Portarlington's Jason 'Chilly' Ward, a talented young Gaelic footballer, has penned a very moving piece about...
Laois SHC 'A' Semi-final - Rosenallis v Colt
In O'Moore Park at 7pm
The second tier hurling competition in Laois is proving a difficult one to get a read on this year.
There’s been a series of surprise results - Mountrath beating...
Murphy set to top the scoring charts
Portarlington will be disappointed not to have reached this year's Laois SFC final but their full-forward Colm Murphy is almost certain to finish the season as the championship's top scorer.
Murphy finished with 3-36...
Pope Francis made a phone call to a leading theologian and priest who was suspended from active ministry in part over his LGBTQ-affirming work, and gave the theologian “the power of the keys,” a phrase indicating his restoration to...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Una Finney (née Williams)
Oakdale Nursing Home, Portarlington, Laois / Portarlington, Offaly / Kildare
Peacefully in the loving care of the nurses and staff of Oakdale Nursing Home Portarlington....
Rosenallis 4-7 The Heath 3-9
Midlands Park Hotel MFC ‘B’ Final
Rosenallis are the Laois U-17 ‘B’ football championship winners as a dramatic injury-time winner from Charlie Friel sealed their win over The Heath on Friday night.
Friel’s score in the 61st...
Last Friday Portlaoise Institute held their annual graduation ceremony.
There was a great turnout with over 220 students receiving certification awards from Portlaoise Institute last year.
These students received QQI level 5 & 6 qualifications in a range of areas such...
A nurse with a sledgehammer knee-capping a captive man; an angry farmer obsessed with his field and a town claiming a lottery prize for a dead man are all the buzz right now around Mountrath!
Excitement is mounting as the...
It was a big day for Scoil Mhuire Fatima in Timahoe as they officially opened their new Early Intervention preschool on Friday morning, Máscoil Kantara.
The development has seen Scoil Mhuire Fatima incorporate two new mainstream classes which cater for...
