Gaelic Football
Previewed and Profiled: Portlaoise still the team to beat as Senior football championship begins
The senior football championship gets underway this evening with champions Portlaoise still the team to beat.
16 teams line up to take part as the...
Late Dwyer point sees Spink and Slieve Bloom share spoils in Junior ‘B’ opener
Spink 1-9 Slieve Bloom 1-9
Laois Shopping Centre Junior 'B' Football Championship Round 1
Slieve Bloom had to settle for a share of the spoils in...
14 young players to watch out for in the Intermediate and Junior football championships
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A few months ago – it didn’t look likely that we would see any championship action in 2020.
However,...
Previewed and Profiled: Runners and riders line up for Intermediate football championship
The Intermediate football championship gets underway on Thursday with plenty at stake once again.
Eight teams line up with six 'first' teams and the second...
Remembering the career of Bobby Miller – who made a huge contribrition to Laois...
This piece originally appeared on LaoisToday in March 2019, ahead of a decisive National Football League game between Laois and Carlow
The Laois and Carlow...
County Final Memory: Ballyroan end 42-year wait in 1992 before reaching Leinster club final
Ballyroan 0-8 St Joseph’s 0-6
1992 Laois SFC Final
Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, few Laois football clubs suffered as much heartache as...
Former Laois manager takes the reins at football club ahead of championship
Sean Dempsey is set to be a very busy man over the next few months as he has taken charge of a second football...
Killeshin withdraw from Kelly Cup following contact with positive Coronavirus case
Killeshin have informed Laois GAA that they have decided to withdraw from the Kelly Cup.
The decision means that they have fore-fitted their semi final...
Leinster Final Memory: Greatest day of all in 2003
If only all the days in Croke Park could be like this one.
Sunday, July 20, 2003 is a day that will live long in...
Goals key as St Brigid’s get the better of St Paul’s
St Brigid's 2-12 St Paul's 0-9
Laois Ladies SFC Round 1
St Brigid’s got their 2020 championship campaign off to the perfect start as they defeated...
County Final Memory: The Heath get the better of Emo in 1974
The Heath 0-8 Emo 0-7
1974 Laois SFC Final
"Pure grit is hard to beat," read the opening line of the Nationalist match report in 1974 after...
Looking back at Laois’s All Ireland minor final loss to a star-studded Tyrone team...
This piece originally featured on LaoisToday on All Ireland final Sunday in 2018, as Tyrone faced up to Dublin in Croke Park, 20 years...
Commending one of Portlaoise GAA’s finest club men – the great Sonny Keogh
This piece originally appeared on LaoisToday in November 2018
In the run up to this weekend’s Leinster SFC quarter-final meeting, we decided to take a...
Second Laois GAA club suspends activity amid Coronavirus fears
Arles-Kilcruise have become the second Laois GAA club to suspend activities until further notice after players from their club came in contact with a...
Laois GAA club pause all activities for ten days following close contact with positive...
Killeshin GAA club have paused all activities for ten days, until Monday, July 27, following a close contact with a confirmed Coronavirus case.
Killeshin's junior...
Two Laois GAA clubs caught up in Coronavirus situation after Carlow player tests positive
Two Laois GAA clubs have found themselves in the middle of a Covid-19 situation after playing practice matches against a team who have had...
Tommy ‘The Boy Wonder’ Murphy: ‘Even better to watch than Mick O’Connell’
A couple of weeks ago the team in Newstalk’s Off the Ball picked Laois’s ‘Sporting Mount Rushmore’ - the county’s four greatest sports people...
Former Laois footballer transfers to Munster club ahead of championship
Former Laois footballer Billy Sheehan has transferred to Clare football side Cratloe ahead of the upcoming club championships.
The former Emo and Laois attacker has...
Laois football boss could add to his panel after club championships
Laois senior football boss Mike Quirke says that it may be possible for him to add to his current Laois senior football panel if...
WATCH: Class footage of one of Laois’s greatest ever defenders
This is class.
After previously producing videos on Ross Munnelly and Beano McDonald - the very talented Kilkenny-based sports photographer Maurice Walsh is back with...
Revised draws made for Leinster U-20 hurling, minor football and minor hurling championships
The draws for the revised Leinster U-20 hurling, minor football and hurling championships have been made this evening.
Both of the minor teams could have...
County Final Memory: St Joseph’s come of age as they achieve big breakthrough in...
St Joseph's 1-7 Timahoe 0-7
1973 Laois SFC Final
If ever there was a success waiting to happen it was the St Joseph's footballers in 1973.
Having...
Laois GAA set out fixture schedule with competitive action set to get underway on...
Laois GAA have outlined in detail the schedule of adult club games in the county, which will get underway on Saturday, July 18.
In a...
Laois man linked to vacant Carlow football manager post
Three men are believed to be in the running for the vacant Carlow senior football manager's job - and one of them is a...
CONFIRMED: Laois GAA finalise fixtures and structure of football and hurling championships
Laois GAA have finalised the fixtures dates and the structures of the upcoming football and hurling club championships.
A couple of ideas were outlined two...
Laois GAA to host football workshop on returning to action
The Laois senior football management will host a Football Workshop on Monday June 29 in LOETB Centre of Excellence, adjacent to MW Hire O'Moore...
County Final Memory: Emo’s greatest day in 1972
Emo 2-11 Graiguecullen 3-4
1972 Laois SFC Final
Emo GAA club have a proud tradition but despite coming close over the years their 1972 Laois senior...
Laois Football Memory: One that got away in 1999
Dublin 1-11 Laois 0-14
1999 Leinster SFC Semi-final
The phrases “one that got away” and “left it behind them” were coined with games like this in...
Sporting Memories: Padraig Clancy on 2003, how Gaelic football has changed and hopes for...
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Timahoe footballer Padraig Clancy is next up in our Sporting Memories series.
Clancy made his first championship...
From primary school coaching to All Ireland minor finals – Oliver Phelan on his...
This interview with Ollie Phelan by Siun Lennon was published last October ahead of the club's first ever Laois senior football semi-final.
A surge of...
