The Week that Was: Our most read stories of the past seven days
1 - Search on for lucky EuroMillions winner after ticket sold in Laois
A person in Laois could be waking up a whole lot richer...
Covid-19 and no Electric Picnic a ‘double blow’ to businesses in Stradbally
Today, Friday September 4th, should've been the first day of Electric Picnic 2020.
However, due to Coronavirus, Stradbally, which has been a hive of activity...
A bumper weekend of soccer ahead as CCFL publish latest figures
The local soccer season is almost 12 months old now as efforts to bring the 2019-2020 campaign to an end continue.
The CCFL have published...
Laois TD calls for ‘crisis in autism services’ to be addressed
A Laois TD has called for the 'crisis in autism services' to be immediately addressed.
Sinn Fein Deputy Brian Stanley says that 1,940 children in...
End of an era as two Portlaoise stalwarts call time on football career
If the Laois football championship does get the go-ahead to resume next week, champions Portlaoise will continue their quest for dominance as they seek...
Towns Cup winner and former AIL player takes charge of Portlaoise ahead of new...
Donal Rigney has been appointed as the head coach of Portlaoise Rugby Club ahead of the 2020-21 season.
Rigney, a former Towns Cup winner with...
Weekend Read: The story of the Portarlington to Mountmellick Tramway
National Heritage Week began yesterday and runs until August 23.
Unfortunately due to the current Covid Crisis, Laois County Library Service is not in a...
County Final Memory: Mountrath beat neighbours Trumera to claim intermediate hurling honours in 2001
Mountrath 1-12 Trumera 1-9
2001 Laois IHC Final
All across Laois there are different rivalries that come to the fore at different times.
In 2001, Mountrath and...
County Final Memory: Clonad claim famous success in 1992
Clonad 0-16 Portlaoise 2-7
1992 Laois SHC Final
From 1976 to 1991 only two clubs won the Laois senior hurling championship: Camross and Portlaoise.
In 1992, however,...
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...
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...
My Life in Politics: Caroline Dwane-Stanley on visiting Long Kesh, local government issues and...
Sinn Féin's rise at a national level has been mirrored somewhat in Laois.
The party won their first Dáil seat in the 1997 General Election...
Weekend Read: From catastrophe to a crowning glory and all the drama in between...
Following Liverpool's Premier League title success this week, we asked two local long-suffering Liverpool supporters to write a piece on what it meant to...
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...
Burnt out cars, boy-racers, rubbish and anti-social behaviour – chaos on the Slieve Bloom...
Burnt-out cars, disgusting littering and despicable anti-social behaviour have blighted part of the Slieve Bloom Mountains recently.
So says Independent Cllr James Kelly who outlined...
Laois man appointed principal of high-profile Limerick secondary school
Portlaoise native Diarmuid Mullins has been appointed as principal of the highly-regarded Crescent College in Limerick.
Mullins has taught English and History in the co-ed...
Moment in Time: Electric Picnic celebrating its 10th Birthday in 2013
2013 saw the Electric Picnic celebrate ten magical years of music and memories at Stradbally Hall.
It was an occasion not be missed, as all...
Sporting Memories: Padraig Clancy on 2003, how Gaelic football has changed and hopes for...
Brought to you in association with Laois Library Service
Timahoe footballer Padraig Clancy is next up in our Sporting Memories series.
Clancy made his first championship...
Laois Hurling Memory: 43 years of hurt ended with brilliant win over Offaly in...
Laois 0-29 Offaly 0-21
2015 Leinster SHC Quarter-final
More than any other county, the Laois hurlers have suffered disproportionately over the years at the hands of...
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...
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...
Moment in Time: Huge turnout for the Festival of the Mountain in 2005
Following the announcement that one of Laois's oldest festivals, the Festival of the Mountain, has been cancelled for this year, this week's Moment in Time...
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...
My Life in Politics: Seamus McDonald on early memories, busy life as a councillor...
Seamus McDonald is Fianna Fáil’s longest-serving county councillor in Laois, the Rosenallis man first having been elected in 1985.
Indeed only current Cathaoirleach Willie Aird of Fine...
Remember the Game: Clough-Ballacolla win Laois U-21 hurling final in 2005
Clough-Ballacolla 2-9 Ballinakill 0-6
2004 Laois U-21 HC Final
Not for the first time, an U-21 championship went overtime and into the following year.
On St Patrick's...
New faces, departures and a crazy count – reflections on the 2019 Local Elections
A year on, we look back at the drama of last year's Local Elections in Laois. This piece originally appeared on LaoisToday on the...
Women on maternity leave ‘being penalised’ says local senator
Senator Fiona O’Loughlin has said there is an urgent need for legislation to alter the new temporary wage support scheme from Revenue.
According to the...
Laois Hurling Memory: The battle of Birr, a last-minute winner and relegating Offaly
Laois 2-13 Offaly 2-12
2004 National Hurling League
Big Laois hurling wins over Offaly have unfortunately been few and far between over the years.
But there have...
