Rainbow Castle Creche located in Portlaoise are looking to fill a key role in their business from November.
The team at Rainbow Castle are looking for the perfect candidate to fill in on Maternity cover for six months.
Position Available:
Maternity...
What a weekend of ladies club football that was.
Over 120 players, six teams and three matches took to O'Moore Park to play off the junior, intermediate and senior finals.
St Paul's defeated Ballyfin in the junior showdown, while Shanahoe ended...
Last week, 185 gardai passed out from Templemore College in Tipperary.
There were four Laois gardai among them and one of those graduated with a high honour.
Mountmellick's Gavin Conroy was awarded the International Police Association Scholarship upon passing out.
Gavin was...
This story of community spirit and helping total strangers will warm your heart.
The Electric Picnic Festival finished two weeks ago but we have just learned of this tale involving three Limerick natives and the village of Timahoe.
Clare Murphy, Jane...
Portlaoise hospital has appointed a new director of nursing.
Sandra McCarthy from Kildare is a registered general nurse and a registered general nurse tutor with extensive clinical, educational and managerial experience.
She trained in Meath Hospital in Dublin and transferred to...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Henry (Harry) Sythes
Ballytarsna, Abbeyleix, Laois
Peacefully in the loving care of his family. Deeply regretted by his loving wife Ailish, sons David, Tony and Adrian, daughter Marguerite, brothers...
The news that Eddie Brennan was appointed as Laois senior hurling manager broke in August and has been getting huge reaction ever since.
With the recent ratification of the eight time All-Ireland winner on Monday, LaoisToday took to the airwaves...
Brought to you in association with Mulhall Meats Portlaoise
The cries, cheers and hugs summed up just what winning this JFC 'C' football title meant to the people of Slieve Bloom last night.
They nearly let their grasp on cup slip,...
Brought to you in association with Mulhall Meats Portlaoise
Slieve Bloom 1-11 Colt 1-7
Laois Shopping Centre JFC 'C' Final
This JFC ‘C’ final was full of twists, turns and comebacks akin to Hollywood stage screens. It didn't always look as though...
Tonight marks a final clash which is very significant for both sides for two very different reasons.
For Slieve Bloom, they will be hoping to win their first title with a big ball in their own name.
Under the Castletown-Slieve Bloom...
Mountmellick is set represent its county as the only Laois town town in a national competition to find the best enterprise town in Ireland.
Mountmellick could be in for winning part of the €157,000 prize fund in many categories including...
This is definitely not a sale you'd see every day.
An extensive plot of farmland, including four cottages, has come up for sale in Moyne and Coolnabehy, Durrow.
The 180 acres is advertised as being close to Durrow, Abbeyleix, Rathdowney and...
Portlaoise 3-05 St Conleths 1-06
U12 'A' championship final
The girls of Portlaoise finished off the year in style with a fantastic victory against St Conleths in the “A” championship final.
On Thursday evening in Annanough both teams served up a very entertaining...
Oh no, this is NOT what we want to hear.
We've had a reasonably good run of things weather wise over the last couple of months.
It was incredibly warm through June and July and while we may have endured a...
There were joyous celebrations across Laois today as Transition Year and fifth year students received their Junior Cert results.
There has been a small increase of 1.5 percent in numbers sitting the exam this year compared to last.
The new English...
There was deep sadness in The Heath recently as one of their most popular members passed away.
Mick Kavanagh, who won four senior championship medals for the club, passed away on Saturday.
A post on The Heath GAA's Facebook page said:...
Here are all of this week’s golf results from the weekend.
We also have a selection of pictures from Portlaoise Golf club and The Heath Golf Club:
RATHDOWNEY GOLF CLUB
SCRAMBLE TO THE SUN COMPETITION
1st John McCormack (13), Gerry McCormack (13)9Thurles G...
The fastest broadband in Ireland is now available in Portlaoise. Digiweb Electric Broadband powered by SIRO is a 100% Fibre to the Home connection.
Homes and businesses in Portlaoise can now avail of speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second (that’s...
There is €750,000 worth of funding up for grabs for start-ups in Enterprise Ireland’s final Competitive Start Fund of 2018.
The fund will provide up to €50,000 in equity funding for up to 15 successful applicants and is open to...
Did you know that the unemployment rate for people living with a disability is more than double that of able-bodied people?
The majority of people with disabilities want to join the workforce and make a valuable contribution to society but...
Three Laois men and one woman were among the 185 Gardai who passed out at Templemore College on Friday.
Gavin Conroy from Mountmellick, Eoghan Mahony from Portarlington, Mark Bartley-Fitzgerald from Portlaoise and Killeshin native Aoife Mannion graduated with their peers...
It was all smiles and laughter as our LaoisToday photographer Julie-Anne Miller popped in to two Laois primary schools recently.
Arles NS and Newtown NS both welcomed us to their schools near the Carlow border, where we go a chance...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Brigid (Bridie) Kinahan (née Campion)
Clareen, Birr, Offaly / Portlaoise, Laois
Brigid (Bridie) Kinahan, Nee Campion late of Clareen, Birr, Co Offaly and formerly Cannonswood, Cullohill, Portlaoise, Co. Laois....
Tonight marks a final clash which is very significant for both sides for two very different reasons.
For Slieve Bloom, they will be hoping to win their first title with a big ball in their own name.
Under the Castletown-Slieve Bloom...
Portlaoise GAA Club were recipients of SuperValu's #Behindtheball GAA footballs in Laois this week.
Store manager at SuperValu Parkside Portlaoise, Gordon O'Connor, presented children from Portlaoise GAA Club with footballs.
These footballs are part of SuperValu’s #Behindtheball Initiative which aims to...
The GAA All-Star football nomination lists has been announced - and one Laois man has made the cut.
Portlaoise and Laois keeper Graham Brody has received a nomination for the Number 1 spot on the 2018 team.
The Laois vice-captain put...
Laois Down Syndrome Association received a hugely generous donation of €500 by one Portlaoise supermarket this week.
Laois Down Syndrome Association one of the hundreds of charities to benefit from Aldi’s 2018 Community Grants Programme.
The supermarket chain awarded the charity...
A local Cllr is calling for two roundabouts to be installed in Stradbally.
Fine Gael Cllr Tom Mulhall says that traffic calming measures are needed in the town to combat speeding.
He said: "There is a huge problem in Stradbally with...
'The Town' received huge praise and acclaim yet again for the second of the three-part documentary series, which aired on Virgin Media One, formerly TV3 last night.
Tweets poured in about the programme, and #thetown began trending nationally on Twitter.
The series,...
Portlaoise man, Darren Farrell, gained recognition at The Irish Hair and Beauty Awards in Dublin's Crowne Plaza Hotel over the weekend with his salon The Hair House which is situated in Rathdowney.
Over 650 people attended the awards, from all...
