Beechfield Healthcare based in Portlaoise are looking for a creative, enthusiastic and hardworking Marketing assistant to join their growing team and provide marketing support to the Marketing Manager and Sales team.
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The Laois hurlers will begin their 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup campaign with a trip to neighbours Offaly.
The details of next year's competition were revealed yesterday and will see Laois take on an Offaly side competing outside the Liam MacCarthy...
Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday October 8 to Monday October 15, and we have been gathering tips and advice on ways to look after your mental health.
A qualified psychotherapist has shared her advice with us.
Daily exercise
Mary...
Mountrath CS 55 Kennedy College, New Ross 19
Leinster Junior Rugby Development League
There was a little bit of history created in Togher yesterday as Mountrath CS played their first ever competitive game of rugby.
Their captain and top scorer on the...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Iris Conlan (née Swayne)
23 Station Court, Portarlington, Laois / Monasterevin, Kildare
Formerly Oghill Monasterevin. Peacefully at her residence. Sadly missed by her loving husband Noel, family Josephine, Beverley,...
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A new Divisional football Competition in Laois gets underway tomorrow night.
The first game in the LOETB Centre of Excellence sees North/North West take on East Central at 6pm, followed...
As the senior football final descends on the county this weekend, Killenard is awash with seas of blue and yellow - flags, posters and even songs have been put out in encouragement of the first O'Dempsey's team to reach...
St. Mary's CBS Portlaoise are planning a sleep out this evening in a bid to raise money for the homeless.
The event is being ran by the school's TY and students council to raise money for Focus Ireland.
Students have have...
The Laois senior footballers have been drawn to face Westmeath in the quarter final of the Leinster championship for 2019.
It is a good draw for Laois as they are on the side of the draw that means they cannot...
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We are constantly amazed in Laois Tourism at the diversity of events that take place across the county. This weekend we have Jerry Fish, Red Hurley, Transmitter, Delorentos, Pink Floyd and David Bowie tribute...
Banríon Gaels Camogie Club rounded off their most successful year to date with an awards ceremony held in McCann Park, Portarlington earlier today.
The Club, set up in 2013, encompasses players from Portarlington, Emo, Killenard and surrounding areas has gone...
Portlaoise College 6-6 Colaiste Dhun Masc 2-4
Top Oil South Leinster ‘D’ U-14 Football Championship
There was history made in Portlaoise today as two secondary schools clashed in a competitive game for the first time - and indeed for one of...
In August, Laois Enterprise Office (LEO) was nominated for a European Enterprise Promotion Award for their programme which helps disadvantaged groups overcome barriers to employment.
The news has now come in that LEO has been shortlisted in the top three...
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What a weekend we have in store.
This week it’s all about football as we turn our attention to the Senior and Minor finals.
Joining host Brian Moss is LaoisToday’s Steven...
Portlaoise actor Robert Sheehan has opened up about drugs, his sex life and the effects of fame in a wide ranging interview with Hot Press.
The 30-year-old shot to fame for his roles in the E4 show Misfits and then...
Two Laois authors are set to officially launch their books at the upcoming Laois Leaves Festival of Writing and Music.
Helen Cullen and John Whelan will be in the Dunamaise Art Gallery on Saturday Novermber 10 at 3pm.
London based writer, Helen...
With O'Dempsey's in the Laois SFC final this Sunday for the first time in 35 years, well wishes are flooding in to the club from all corners.
The Killenard area is bedecked in their blue and gold colours - as...
The Laois Campaign for the re-election of Michael D Higgins was launched on Thursday, October 4 in O’Loughlins Hotel Portlaoise.
The non-party political event was attended by members of the public, Minister Charlie Flanagan and councillor Noel Tuohy. Green Party...
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In the run up to this weekend's senior county final, we decided to take a look at not only the players involved in the meeting of Portlaoise and O'Dempseys, but also...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Hannah (Siobhan) Molloy (née McDonald)
Leixlip, Kildare / Wolfhill, Laois
MOLLOY(née McDonald), Hannah (Siobhan) (Leixlip, Co. Kildare and formerly of Wolf Hill, Co. Laois) October 10th 2018 (peacefully) in...
This is an incredibly brave and deeply selfless thing to do.
A young Stradbally man has opened up about his own struggles with mental health in a bid to help others.
Dean Maher took to his own Facebook page this evening...
A Laois man gone missing in America has been found.
Ballacolla man Emmet Wall was missing in Washington DC since Saturday, and his friends and family put out appeals to find the young Laois man.
The Clough-Ballacolla club man is currently...
Bringing to a close the football season for Mothers & Others, Portlaoise GAA ladies participated once again this year in the All- Ireland blitz which was held in Portmarnock, Dublin, over the weekend.
Over 2500 participants from all over the...
Portlaoise airman Colonel James Fitzmaurice has been commemorated yet again for his legendary east to west crossing of the Atlantic.
The 90th Anniversary of the first-ever east to west Atlantic flight was commemorated with a wreath-laying ceremony at County Hall,...
Portlaoise Ladies’ Hockey Club played Our Ladys 4ths in Templeogue on Saturday, October 6. Portlaoise took the lead with a great goal by Claire Dwyer in the first half.
The lead was further extended in the second half with super...
The Midlands Park Hotel in Portlaoise are holding a recruitment evening next week as they look to fill a number of positions as they increase their team to meet the growing demand.
The recruitment evening takes place next Wednesday, October...
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We had serious craic in Killenard NS yesterday.
We ventured over to East Laois where the boys and girls sang us their County Final song.
Over 400 students packed into the school hall...
One Laois hotel has been named the second best hotel in Ireland, according to the Condé Nast Traveler's 2018 Readers' Choice Awards.
Ballyfin Demense was named second in the top ten hotels in Ireland, according to the illustrious awards.
Some 429,000 travellers...
Video footage has emerged of the incident in the Laois SHC final that saw Rathdowney-Errill's Ross King forced off the field with a bad facial injury in the 25th minute.
Slow-motion footage of the moment is doing the rounds on...
Met Éireann have officially issued Status Orange and Yellow weather warnings for the incoming Storm Callum.
In a statement, the national weather forecaster said: "Strong winds associated with Storm Callum, coinciding with high spring tides will affect Ireland on Thursday...
