A Glanbia information evening recently took place in Portlaoise.
Last July Glanbia announced their plans to build a €130m mozarella cheese factory in Portlaoise.
The new plant will employ 78 people when it is completed.
The site is at the Togher National...
A Laois TD has said that a meeting between the county's three elected Dáil representatives, Laois County Council and Martin Shanahan, CEO of the IDA was "positive" and that there is "marked improvement on previous years".
Deputy Sean Fleming chaired...
Darren McEvoy has long been a stalwart for Rosenallis AFC and comes from a huge supporting family emersed in different sport throughout Rosenallis.
Here, Darren tells us all about his fondest soccer memories - from Italia '90 to winning the...
All roads are heading to Kilkenny this weekend for the first ever Midland Ladies Masters basketball team who will be participating in the opening tournament of the Masters basketball circuit on Saturday.
Most of the team will have reached their...
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Leinster league Div 1
Portlaoise RFC U-15s travelled to Mullingar at the weekend for their Leinster League game and returned with nothing when they were beaten by a strong and well organized Mullingar side.
From the start, the...
Portlaoise CBS 1-4 Colasite Choilm Tullamore 2-16
Top Oil School's Senior 'B' South Leinster Football Championship Final
Portlaoise CBS' South Leinster campaign is over after they were well beaten by Tullamore in O'Moore Park this afternoon.
The Laois school really struggled offensively...
The sound you hear in the background is the sweet music of success that is the Laois School of Music and its partner project, Music Generation.
A progress report on the county’s School of Music since it was first established...
Opening a new business is an exciting venture at any time but when it's a mother-and-daughter team it brings it to a different level again.
That's what Meghan Quinlan and her mother Bernadette Rigney have done recently, opening their own...
Minister of State for Equality, Immigration and Integration David Stanton TD today joined Gaisce and Coca-Cola Ireland to launch Wavelength, Gaisce’s new nationwide integration project.
Gaisce – The President’s Award is calling on young people in Laois who are seeking...
Over 870 people in Laois are waiting over a year for occupational therapy. There are 1140 people are awaiting Speech and Language Therapy while 292 people not been accessed to date.
This is according to Laois TD Brian Stanley.
Deputy Stanley...
Emily and Jack were the most common baby names in Laois for 2018.
This is according to the Central Statistics Office, which released the list of most common names for newborns on Tuesday, February 26.
Laois is keeping with the national...
Election season is well and truly underway and the political stories are coming thick and fast here on LaoisToday.
So we bring you the second of our Election Diary segments which will run right up until the big day in...
One of Laois's previously forgotten soccer clubs has made a comeback.
Round Tower Rovers FC, who in September of 2018, were reignited by Brian Oxley and Damian McArdle and the help of John Quigley along with the former members of...
A Laois family art group are looking forward to having their exhibition displayed in Mountmellick Library this April.
Yustina, Sofia and their mother Tatiana have been living in Ireland since 2002.
For a long time they lived in Monaghan near the...
A Laois GAA club are hosting a darts exhibition with five-time World Champion Raymond Van Barneveld on March 10.
Barney will be in Graiguecullen GAA clubhouse for an evening of entertainment where he will take on 20 local players with...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Christopher (Chris) Cuddy
Formerly of St. Patrick's Terrace, Castletown, Laois
Christopher (Chris) Cuddy, Levenshulme, Manchester and formerly of St. Patrick's Tce., Castletown, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. February 8th. 2019 (unexpectedly)...
After five years of dreaming and planning, David and Lisa Walsh-Kemmis got an early Christmas present last year when their new brewery started production on their family farm at Ballykilcavan, near Stradbally.
The brewery is set in a 230-year-old stone grain store...
Brought to you in association with Ballykilcavan Brewery
Laois senior football manager John Sugrue has named his team to face Longford in Round 5 of Division 3 of the National Football League on Saturday.
Following on from the loss against Westmeath...
From its beginnings in 1898, the Ossory Show is one of the most prestigious and long-running agricultural shows in the country.
The Ossory Agricultural hosts over 280 categories ranging from cattle, sheep, horses, ponies, poultry, crafts, eggs, baking, vegetables and...
Timahoe was the home of avant grande fashion last night in a spectacular fundraiser for Mary-Claire Knowles.
A charity fashion show was held in aid of Mary Claire and the Timahoe Community Hall.
Little Mary Claire suffers from an extremely rare...
The Downeys Nissan Laois Athletics Novice Road Race Championships took place in Ballyfin on Sunday.
In ideal conditions, slightly cool and no rain or wind, there was a great crowd of athletes and spectators in attendance who enjoyed the morning's...
Dominating throughout Monaghan’s Josh Moffett (Ford Fiesta WRC) and his Wexford co-driver Andy Hayes took a start to finish victory in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel Rally, the opening round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship on Sunday.
At the...
Rathdowney is set to fall under a magical spell as its 33rd annual pantomime, “The Royals, The Witch and The Woodcutter” takes place in Rathdowney Community Centre.
Over the course of four days in March, witches, wolves, a royal family, a...
It was a packed house in Crean's in Vicarstown on Tuesday night as the community celebrated the 90th birthday party of one of the area's much-loved local characters.
Martin Scully is somewhat of a legend in the Courtwood-Vicarstown area.
Born in...
A long-standing Portlaoise institution is today celebrating the 50th anniversary of the day they first opened for business.
People First Credit Union in Portlaoise - which now also has branches in Stradbally, Athy and Abbeyleix and are due to open...
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You know its spring when you see lots of runs and walks being organised and it’s a great excuse to get out and about this weekend.
The Kinnitty Knight Run takes place Friday night...
A convicted paedophile was the victim of a vicious attack in the Midlands Prison Portlaoise, according to the Irish Daily Star.
Gardai have launched an investigation after the inmate was set on fire and attacked - which left him in...
Scoil Chriost Ri are through to their first ever Senior A Basketball Final having come through the Quarter and Semi-Final on Wednesday February 27 in the National Arena.
The Senior A title is the only one to have so far...
A simple typing error robbed a Fianna Fail member of the chance of being selected to run for his party in the Local Elections this summer.
Timahoe native Willie Ramsbottom had hoped to contest the Fianna Fail selection convention for...
Calls have been made for stricter laws, such as mandatory sentences in an effort to curb knife crime.
The appeal was made to Justice Minister, Charlie Flanagan at this week’s Laois County Council by Cllr Noel Tuohy.
He received widespread support...
