An emotional half-time team talk and thunderous reception standout moments from Ballyroan’s 2006 championship...
There are some moments that will stay with players forever.
For the Ballyroan Gaels team of 2006 that won the Laois senior football championship, having...
Bonfires, TV appearance and trailer parades – unforgettable times from Ballyroan’s last county final...
How the years roll by.
The Ballyroan Gaels Laois SFC triumph is 14 years ago this year but the celebrations will be remembered forever.
Their first...
County Final Memory: Portlaoise hurlers end famine in 1981
Portlaoise 2-13 Camross 4-5
1981 Laois SHC Final
No matter what happened in the 1981 Laois senior hurling final, history was going to be made.
Camross, having...
Death stares, Thomas Gravesen, young footballers and Roy Keane – A Laois man’s encounters...
In November 2005, Roy Keane's Manchester United career ended when he contract was cancelled by mutual consent.
The then 33-year-old signed for Celtic a couple...
Results of fourth and final Laois GAA €130 ticket draw
A total of 26 clubs had winners in the fourth and final monthly Laois GAA €130 county board ticket draw held in the LOETB...
BREAKING: GAA, Camogie Association and LGFA announce roadmap for return of club and county...
The GAA, Camogie Association and LGFA have published their roadmap for a return to club and county action in Laois and across the country.
The...
REVEALED: Laois’s sporting Mount Rushmore selection sure to cause debate
It is a topic that has gripped social media discussion in recent days and today Newstalk's Off the Ball radio programme selected Laois's sporting Mount Rushmore...
Laois club chairman pens open letter to GAA and County Board pleading for the...
A Laois club chairman has penned an open letter to the GAA and the County Board pleading for the reopening of club facilities.
On March...
Advice to aspiring young soccer players from a Laois man exposed to the professional...
Portlaoise’s Paul Cahillane has offered some advice to young Laois soccer players who may be offered the opportunity of a professional career abroad.
The former...
Laois’s Mount Rushmore – Off the Ball’s unenviable task of picking our four greatest...
How? Just how could you pick this?
Pick Laois's best four sports people of all time. Well that's what Off the Ball, Newstalk's hugely popular...
The story of a Laois man, a future Man United flop and a wet...
Portlaoise's Paul Cahillane has revealed his toughest ever soccer opponent.
The former Celtic, UCD and Wexford Youths midfielder was the guest on this week's addition...
In Pictures: Laois camogie side swaps hurls for wooden spoons for club and community...
Banríon Gaels Camogie Club conducted a virtual bake off competition last week which saw members swap their hurls for wooden spoons to give back...
Laois Football Memory: Laois shock Monaghan in 2012 to set off on Qualifier run
Laois 2-12 Monaghan 0-12
All-Ireland Qualifiers Round 2 2012
Laois and Monaghan have only met twice in championship football - with the win over the Farney...
Laois participants sought as Ireland’s Fittest Family open for applications again
Laois families have a great track record on the hugely popular Ireland's Fittest Family TV programme - and the producers of the show are...
Laois Football Memory: A beautiful day in Navan – remembering Laois’s win over mighty...
At the time Meath were the bluebloods of Gaelic football; they were revered, feared and respected and had not only scaled the peak once...
Rathdowney student honoured by GAA in Future Leaders competition
St Fergal's College Rathdowney Transition Year Student Ella Hayes was among the winners in the recent GAA Future Leaders National Competition for second level...
Culleton, Keenan, Kelly, Lalor and Cuddy – Laois’s top five hurling goalscorers of all...
A recent LaoisToday feature on PJ Cuddy referenced a stat that the Camross man was Laois’s highest goalscorer of all time.
The Laois GAA Bible account...
County Final Memory: Portarlington end their famine in 1988
Portarlington 0-6 Timahoe 0-5
1988 Laois SFC Final
Portlaoise's dominance of the Laois club football scene in the 1980s saw them win six titles in seven...
Laois secondary school student scoops national sports journalism award
A Portlaoise CBS Transition Year student has won a national award for journalism.
David 'Dee' O'Brien, from The Heath, has won the GAA Future Leaders...
Laois GAA club turn the sod on €180,000 new development
GAA pitches remain closed due to the Coronavirus but one club has turned the sod on a massive upgrade to theirs.
Ballyroan-Abbey GAA have two...
GAA set to open walking tracks but not pitches on June 8 – if...
The GAA will open their walking tracks on June 8 if the Government proceed to Phase 2 of their plan to re-open the the...
Willie Dunphy recalls ‘greatest memory’ when Laois defeated Dublin in Portlaoise
Laois senior hurler Willie Dunphy says that his greatest ever memory in a Laois jersey was when the O'Moore's defeated Dublin last July.
The Clough-Ballacolla...
GAA still ‘hopeful’ of running Cul Camps this summer despite Coronavirus
The GAA are still 'hopeful' of staging Cul Camps in Laois and throughout the country this summer - despite the Coronavirus pandemic.
GAA Ard Stiurthoir...
How a Carlow footballer has had a big influence on a young Laois hurler
Carlow football and Laois hurling are not two things that you would expect to come together - but that is exactly what happened on...
Laois Football Memory: The incredibly dramatic Laois-Offaly football clash in 2003
Laois 1-12 Offaly 1-12
2003 Leinster SFC Quarter-final
The 2003 inter-county football season will never be forgotten in Laois.
A first Leinster title in 57 years, a...
Athletics hopeful of autumn return as big events in the pipeline
With the country in lockdown, it has been an age since there has been any athletics action.
But the athletics community at all levels are...
Moment in Time: Brilliant Cumann na mBunscol football images from 2000
There was plenty of stars of the future on the display in the Laois Cumann na mBunscol football finals 20 years ago in the...
In Pictures: The Heath Golf Club members thrilled to be back in action
The Heath Golf Club opened up on Monday last, May 18, much to the delight of many of the members who are eligible to...
Laois hurling and camogie clubs raise more than €10,000 for three charities with weekend...
Members of Clough-Ballacolla GAA and camogie clubs ran, walked, cycled and shaved their heads in a series of novel challenges over the weekend to...
High praise for three of Laois football’s greatest servants
There was high praise from Laois's current longest serving footballer for three of his former teammates in this week's Talking Sport Podcast.
Aidan Fennnelly, Noel...
