The Laois GAA Divisional football competition continued this evening with games in Mountmellick and Stradbally.
The two sides wwho lost their opening round games - West Northwest and North East - clashed in Mountmellick and Siun Lennon reports on that...
Today history was made by one Laois teenager.
Thirteen year old Jordan Percy became the first ever visually impaired person to win a silver medal at the Irish open wrestling championship.
The Portlaoise teenager only began the sport six months ago,...
The death has occured of Tom Peters, one of the Gardai who suffered horrific injuries in the infamous IRA bombing in Garryhinch in 1976.
Garda Peters was blinded during the explosion at the derelict cottage outside Portarlington and also suffered...
The Laois Divisional football competition kicked off last weekend with a double header in the LOETB Centre of Excellence.
Round 2 sees the games being brought to club venues with Mountmellick and Stradbally chosen as hosts this evening.
The first game...
There were mixed fortunes for two Laois teams who were action at opposite sides of the country.
The hurlers from Slieve Bloom travelled to the capital for Round 1 of the Leinster JHC but suffered defeat.
However, there was better luck...
Sarsfields 4-12 Miltown (Westmeath) 1-10
Leinster LGFA senior club championship Semi Final
Sarsfields are through to their first Leinster final since 2015 following an inspired victory in Mountmellick this afternoon.
Laois scoring ace Clare Conlon scored two goals in the second half...
This week we saw tweets featuring everything from a brief history of Portlaoise, positive mantras for life and the only person in Ireland (probably) who hasn't heard Maniac 2000.
We're back with our top tweets of the week.
The reason behind...
The Sarsfields Ladies will be hoping to reach the Leinster final today when they host Westmeath champions Milltown in Mountmellick.
Gerry O'Flatherty's side won their sixth Laois title in a row last month and followed that up a few weeks...
As part of a running series, we bring you this week’s ‘Good Week/Bad Week’.
To see who has had a good or bad week, we look at different news stories happening in Laois and involving Laois people. Most importantly, it’s...
One local councillor has claimed that people, 'are living in fear of their lives' towards an accident blackspot in Mountmellick.
The issue was raised by cllr Paddy Bracken at the latest Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick municipal district meeting.
The area in question is at...
Stradbally Parish Gaels 4-10 O'Dempsey's 1-2
2004 Laois U-14 'A' Football Final
A powerful Stradbally Parish Gaels team dispatched O'Dempseys on a huge scoreline to claim the under 14 A title 14 years ago.
The Parish got the better of their opponents...
Huge crowds turned out on Main Street Portlaoise to see the official launch of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s new Portlaoise resource centre.
Officially opening the centre was CEO of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Pat McLoughlin.
Officials attending the event included Laois...
Did we say the GAA season was slowing down? Far from it if this weekend is anything to go by.
We have four big games taking place on Saturday with more to come on Sunday.
In this preview, we take a...
Laois Martial arts were in action again on Sunday 7th of October in Citywest.
The team, consisting of 8 members, took to the mats to compete in Pointfighting and Light Contact.
The team, who range in age from 6 to 13...
Auctioneer Matt Dunne was a busy man last week as he put six properties up for public auction over a two-day period.
Among the items he was selling was an area of farmland in Carbury.
All of the auctions were held...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Sandra Byrne (née O'Reilly)
Rathgilbert House, Athy, Kildare / Kells, Meath / Laois
BYRNE née O'Reilly, Sandra, Rathgilbert House, Athy, Co. Kildare (and late of Kilbeg House, Kells, Co....
Rosenallis 2-10 Camross 2-7
Laois Shopping Centre ACFL Division 4 Final Replay
The last adult league GAA title of 2018 was decided this evening in the LOETB Laois GAA Centre of Excellence as Rosenallis put in a good second-half performance to...
A hugely talented Laois painter had the chance to meet one of his footballing idols and give him two works of art.
Rick Kelly has been painting since 2015, starting from scratch at the age of 37.
Last night he got...
Today a national competition was launched with help from the students at Scoil Chriost Rí, Portlaoise.
Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan visited the secondary school to launch the 'Politics Needs Women' competition this morning.
The competition involves creating...
Two key appointments have been made for Eddie Brennan's Laois hurling backroom team for the coming year.
Niall Corcoran of Dublin and Limerick's Dave Moriarty bring in a wealth of experience to both of their roles in the Laois hurling...
A new Traineeship Programmes - in Personal Fitness/Pool Lifeguard - will begin in Portlaoise in November and is being run by Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB) in conjunction with the highly-regarded Maltings Training.
This is a really good...
A call to make Lyster Lane safer after daylight hours has been issued during the latest Portlaoise municipal district meeting.
Councillor Catherine Fitzgerald raised the issue to install public lights in Lyster Lane.
"I don't think there's any lights there at...
The toilet talk in Portlaoise municipal district meeting continued as the most recent meeting on Wednesday, October 17.
The saga re-open public toilets in Portlaoise wages on as councillor Pauline Madigan asked for an update on the tender process.
Cllr Willie Aird...
Sitting in the front room of her home in Portlaoise, Geneviève Finane-Fagan tearfully describes the heartbreak herself and every other parent, teacher and staff member feels about the appalling conditions of the Kolbe Special School site.
Geneviève and her husband John...
A new Traineeship Programme in Hospitality will begin in November and is being run by Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB) in conjunction with the highly-regarded Maltings Training.
This is a really good opportunity to gain recognised certification through...
A number of issues surrounding road repairs and safety issues in the Portlaoise municipal district area came up at this month's meeting.
Councillor Mary Sweeney raised the issues, which included a notice of motion to repair the road at Ballyruin,...
A Laois TD has said, "It is now absolutely essential that the company establish alternatives not only to keep jobs but to create new jobs in Laois, Offaly and the Midlands."
Brian Stanley TD was speaking on the matter after...
A blustery night descends on Acragar as the current Juggernauts of Laois ladies club football commence their Leinster semi-final preparations.
This week marks a historic occasion for both the Sarsfields ladies and O'Moores camogie clubs - as the sides, who...
The staff of Portlaoise College gave a formal farewell last Friday October 12 to a wonderful teacher and friend, PJ McEvoy.
Despite announcing his intention to retire last May, the staff and students of the school are still finding it...
Auctioneer Matt Dunne was a busy man last week as he put six properties up for public auction over a two-day period.
Among the properties he was selling was a 76-acre farm with a house in Geashill in Offaly, a...
