A Laois shop was presented with a Bronze Retail Standard Award at the recent prestigious XL Retailing Standard Awards.
Coco's Portlaoise won at the event which attracted retailers from all over Ireland to the Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Dublin, for...
Trenchtown, a well-established area of Electric Picnic, has announced 50 acts for Ireland's hottest music and arts festival, taking place in our very own county Laois.
Multi award-winning DYNAMITE MC is one of the biggest names in the global MC...
This doesn't seem to make much sense.
The State spends less on meals for members of the Defence Forces than it does for the prisoners that they guard.
According to the Irish Daily Mirror, just €4.20 per day is spent on...
One of Laois's oldest festivals will not take place this summer after organisers announced they were taking the decision to cancel it.
The Festival of the Mountain, which has taken place in Rosenallis every summer since 1962, will not go...
This girl could be the next big thing.
A young singer from Portlaoise has been signed by a management company and is set to make her first official music video in the town this Friday, June 14.
Seorsia Jack, who goes...
With each passing week, we are getting increasingly closer to the start of the Laois championships.
Right now, the majority of the leagues are getting down to the closing stages.
Four of the six divisions have semi finals this year and...
This week’s Car of the Week from Joe Mallon Motors is a 182 Renault Kangoo.
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Scholarships to secondary school may be relatively unheard of in Laois, but Portlaoise College are changing that.
They have offered a scholarship or bursary worth €1,000 each to two lucky students, which covers the cost of their school uniform, books...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Thomas(Tom) Butler
Cork Road, Durrow, Laois
Peacefully, surrounded by his family, in the loving care of the nurses and staff of Blackrock Clinic, Dublin. Husband of the late Phyllis,...
The group stages of the Kennedy Cup concluded in University of Limerick today with all four of the teams that have Laois players involved now heading into different sections.
Carlow, who have four players from Killeshin FC and Crettyard United,...
A lucky punter has donated his earnings of €500 to the Laois Hospice Foundation.
Frank Kieran donated his winnings following his success in a Charity Tipping competition in the weekly Greyhound publication, The Sporting Press.
Frank, an Armagh native who now...
A week on from the ever-popular Gordon Bennett Vintage Run, the Gordon Bennett Classic Cars event took place.
The Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club/International Gordon Bennett Rally 2019 began their journey on Sunday June 9.
They travelled in convoy from...
The National finals of the 2019 edition of the Best Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards will take place later this year and for just the second ever time, a Laois person will be there.
Up against winners from Kildare,...
The Savoy Cinema in Portarlington has undergone a remarkable transformation ahead of a screening of a well loved film this weekend.
Two screenings of 'Into the West' will be shown this Saturday in the Church of Ireland Hall in the...
This is not nice to see.
Just days after Portlaoise rose to fourth place in the Anti-Litter League, Portlaoise Tidy Towns has reported incidences of vandalism and littering.
Bridge Street, the Memorial Park and An Pairc Phobail were hit.
Portlaoise Tidy Towns...
Beet Ireland, an orgainsation who sought to bring back to production of beet in the country, has abandoned plans to do so.
It had been mooted in January that the organisation were a step closer to confirming plans to revive...
Two eateries have closed on Main Street Portlaoise in the past few weeks.
La Lola Tapas and Chipmongers takeaway have both closed on Main Street.
La Lola Tapas, located on the prime location of 37 Main Street, has gone up for...
With each passing week, we are getting increasingly closer to the start of the Laois championships.
Right now, the majority of the leagues are getting down to the final round or two.
All six divisions have semi finals this year and...
Laois Paralympian Nicole Turner has brought home a haul of three medals back to Portarlington with her after the final leg of the Para Swimming World Series in Berlin.
Nicole started off this competition getting to the 100m Breaststroke final,...
Foróige’s 'Big Brother Big Sister' Mentoring Programme is calling for volunteers from Portlaoise and Portarlington to get involved in making a real difference to the lives of young people.
The internationally renowned programme forms supportive friendships between a young person...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Fintan Doran
Clontarf, Dublin / Killeshin, Laois
DORAN Fintan, (Clontarf, Dublin and Keelogue, Killeshin, Co. Laois), (Eircom-Retired), peacefully on June 10th 2019, surrounded by his family. A Beloved husband...
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Kellys are a family run business established in 1957, and have been serving the Irish market for over 60 years.
We are one of Ireland's largest stockists of new and used agricultural machinery, farm machinery and plant equipment.
We are a...
Co-operation among co-operatives is one of the operating principles of credit unions. This principle was put into practice with the visit of Seán Dunne, CEO, People First Credit Union to Sierra Leone recently.
Seán participated in a tightly packed five-day...
Saturday night saw different groups of people come together to present two cheques for Dillon Payne, a Mountmellick teenager who is battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
€13,950 was raised for Dillon. €500 was raised by Bank of Ireland Mountmellick, while €850 was...
Ireland's premier soccer competition got underway in University of Limerick this afternoon with Laois representation on four of the 32 teams taking part.
The Midlands, Kilkenny, Carlow and North Tipperary sides all have players from Laois on their squads as...
Saturday last saw the Laois senior hurlers reach the Joe McDonagh Cup final with a game to spare, and clasp a chance to play in Croke Park since 2005.
Speaking pitchside at the Austin Stack Tralee grounds, Laois manager Eddie...
Three Laois men are among the 12 players who will make up the first ever international wheelchair hurling squad.
Croke Park was the venue for today's panel announcement, with President of the GAA John Horan in attendance.
Three Laois men -...
The GAA have confirmed details of three upcoming games involving Laois football teams.
The senior, U-20 and minor footballers will all contest potentially season defining games in the coming weeks.
The Laois senior footballers were drawn against Derry in Round 2...
The future of Renua looks uncertain as party leader John Leahy has announced that he has stepped down and resigned from the party with immediate effect.
Renua fielded 27 candidates in the Local Election in May but only Leahy himself...
