Portlaoise 21 Newbridge 18
Leinster League Division 2A
Portlaoise RFC opened their league campaign with a hard-fought three point win over Newbridge this afternoon.
Portlaoise dropped down to Division 2A this year after flirting with relegation from Division 1B for the last...
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Camross 1-17 Borris-Kilcotton 1-12
Laois Shopping Centre SHC Semi Final
Camross are one step away from becoming the first team in 16 years to defend the Bob O'Keeffe Cup as they triumphed over...
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Ballinakill 0-10 Rathdowney-Errill 1-15
Laois Shopping Centre SHC Semi Final
Rathdowney-Errill are through to the LAois SHC final for the first time since they lost a replay in 2016.
This game was nip and...
We are well into the Autumn now, and this is clear with the arrival of Storm Ali and the Ploughing Championships.
The Town documentary came to a close this week and Laois County Council heard from 3 presidential hopefuls.
It's all...
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The big day has finally arrived for the last four teams left standing in the SHC for 2018.
The Bob O'Keeffe Cup is within touching distance now and after today's games have...
It's been nine years since Durrow's green was transformed into a children's wonderland by the Make Believers charity.
They held a family fun day in the village to help fund the 'Winter Wonderland' event that would take place that December.
The...
There is a number of job vacancies being advertised in Laois 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...
This is definitely in contender for game of the year.
The match looked to be in Camross hands up until the 53rd minute.
However, relentless hard work and battling from John Lowry, Ciaran Conroy and Gavin Conroy – to name a...
Keanan Crutchley has lived in three continents in his 20 years.
He and his family moved from South Africa to Dubai at an early age and when he was 14 years old they moved again, this time to settle down in...
Detections of drink driving are down from last summer to July and August this year, according to the latest crime figures.
At the recent Joint Policing Meeting it Dwas revealed that drink driving is down 12 percent, while being drunk in...
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We're back in O'Moore Park this afternoon for the final two games of an extremely busy weekend of hurling.
After the drama of yesterday's finals and semi finals in the lower grades,...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Margaret (Peg) Cleary
Garryduff, Errill, Laois
Cleary, Garryduff, Errill, Co. Laois. 21st September 2018. Peacefully at Patterson's nursing home, Roscrea. Margaret (Peg) sadly mourned by her sisters Mary, Liz...
Last month, Portlaoise boxer TJ Doheny became a World Champion following a fight in Japan.
It was a simply staggering achievement as he became just the second Irish boxer in history to win a title without fighting once on Irish...
Portlaoise Panthers 80 FR Mathews 91
Mens Divison 1 National League Basketball
Portlaoise Panthers suffered their first loss of the season in their third National League game in Cork on Saturday evening where they took on Fr Mathews, their second away...
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The Harps 1-20 Rosenallis 1-11
Laois Shopping Centre SHC 'A' Semi Final
The Harps are through to the SHC 'A' final following a nine point win over 14-man Rosenallis in Mountrath this evening.
Fintan...
Mountmellick hurlers have continued on their rising tide, after claiming back-to-back championships in the junior B in 2017 and this year in the junior ‘A’ division.
Mountmellick blazed a trail in the Junior B last year and have carried that...
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Slieve Bloom 3-11 Camross 1-12
Laois Shopping Centre IHC Final
This is definitely in contender for game of the year. The match looked to be in Camross hands up until the 53rd minute,...
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Clonaslee St Manman's 1-10 Portlaoise 1-17
Laois Shopping Centre SHC 'A' Semi Final
Portlaoise have qualified for the SHC 'A' final following a relatively comfortable seven point win over Clonaslee in Mountrath this...
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Mountmellick 1-15 Castletown 0-10
Laois Shopping Centre JHC Final
Mountmellick hurlers have continued on their rising tide, after claiming back-to-back championships in the junior B in 2017 and this year in the junior...
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A big double header in O'Moore Park this afternoon with silverware on the line.
The JHC and IHC championship titles will be handed out after two big games take place.
First up is...
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There are two big games in O'Moore Park but there are equally important ones in Mountrath today.
The semi finals of the Senior A hurling championship are up for decision.
Up first at...
Every week we select a handful of the best tweets in and about Laois.
This week we saw people preparing for winter nights out, ACTUALLY talking to their families and of course, complaining about the weather.
It's our tweets of the...
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Camross 4-10 Clough-Ballacolla 2-3
Midlands Park Hotel U-13 Hurling Championship Final
A Camross v Clough-Ballacolla fixture is always enough to get the blood racing, and these two sides certainly lived up to the...
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...
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St Paul's Portarlington 3-2 Ballinakill 1-5
Under 13 Hurling B Championship Final
What a thriller this was. Last year's winning U12 St Paul's Portarlington side did it again for their club, bringing the...
Eighteen years ago. Where does the time go at all?
Our Remember the Game this week looks back on a novel football pairing - the clash of Stradbally and Rathdowney in the Laois JFC 'B' final.
In the days before there...
This Saturday, Slieve Bloom will look to complete a football and hurling championship double.
They face Camross in the IHC final at 7pm in O'Moore Park where they will be looking to win again after triumphing in the Junior C...
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What a day of hurling this promises to be.
We have semi finals in the Senior A hurling championship in Mountrath.
While silverware will be up for grabs in O'Moore Park as the...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Cynthia (June) Dickinson
Mountmellick, Laois
Dickinson, Cynthia (June) – September 20, 2018, peacefully at home in Mountmellick, aged 93. Sadly missed by sisters Hazel and Lila, brother Robin, brother-in-law...
Intolerance and harsh judgments always create a sense of division, separation and exclusiveness. Those who cannot conform to the confines of acceptability often find what it is to experience exclusion. The addict, prisoner, foreign-national, homeless, and many more know...
