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Deaths in Laois – Thursday, December 28, 2023
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Jim (James) Bonham
Raheenabrogue, Ballyroan, Laois
Peacefully in the care of the staff of St. Pauls Ward...
Deaths in Laois – Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Michael (Mick) O’Neill
Emmet Terrace, Mountmellick, Laois
Michael (better known as Mick) Emmet Terrace, Mountmellick, died as...
Deaths in Laois – Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Michael (Mick) O'Neill
Emmet Terrace, Mountmellick, Laois
Michael (better known as Mick) Emmet Terrace, Mountmellick, died as...
Deaths in Laois – Monday, December 25, 2023
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Nancy Connolly (née Loughnane)
Ashgrove, Mountmellick, Laois/Birr, Offaly/Roscrea, Tipperary
The death has occurred of Nancy Connolly (nee...
Deaths in Laois – Sunday, December 24, 2023
Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Ellen Costigan (née Doyle)
Clonad, Portlaoise, Laois, R32PC90/Roscrea, Tipperary
Ellen Costigan (née Doyle) Clonad, Portlaoise and formerly...
Laois SFC Final: Latest meeting of the two great Laois tribes – but St...
Laois SFC Final - Portlaoise v St Joseph’s
In O’Moore Park at 3.30pm
The latest chapter in a great old rivalry in Laois club football will...
Laois author Helen Cullen pens touching tribute to Sinead O’Connor
"Sinéad O’Connor was a lighthouse in Ireland’s sea of dark madness, and her light will never go out."
There is a widespread sense of sadness...
In Pictures: Tributes paid to retiring Laois school principal following 25 years at the...
The principal of Ballyfin National School, Michael Moloney, retired after 25 years at the helm, at the end of this school year.
A native of...
In Pictures: Sightless Cinema Network provides ‘reel’ benefits
Laois County Council’s arts office, along with South Dublin and Meath arts offices, have formed a partnership to establish the Sightless Cinema Network.
This is...
Slowly and surely the 2024 Local Elections are coming into focus
Is it too soon? Too early to be looking ahead to the 2024 Local Elections?
Last week when it was confirmed that Marie Tuohy is...
Fr Paddy: Pope Benedict XVI … A humble servant of the Lord
In the annals of papal history, Joseph Ratzinger, who has died aged 95, will be remembered principally as the first pope in 600 years...
Remembering some of the great Laois people who sadly left us in 2022
As one year ends and the next one begins, we often find ourselves looking back on the people we have lost.
Laois lost a number...
Two girls with strong Laois contacts appear at Rose of Tralee
After a three-year gap the Rose of Tralee returned to our screens this week, with Westmeath girl Rachel Duffy crowned the overall winner.
While there...
Inside story of life as a prison officer in Portlaoise makes for riveting read
For the vast majority of people who lived in Portlaoise over recent decades, little was known about the goings on in the town’s maximum-security...
Now settled at senior, Courtwood look to kick on
Courtwood went further in the senior championship last season than they did in any year since 1990, their quarter-final appearance coming after a famous...
Killeshin seeking to capture the magic of 2019 though the odds seem stacked against...
Early in the second half of the 2019 Laois SFC final, Evan Lowry received a pass from Mark McDermott, took on the Portlaoise defence...
Laois Rose not to be held until 2023 as new format in place
Like everything the Rose of Tralee event had to be postponed for two years running because of the Coronavirus.
And though it is returning to...
Laois Hurling Memory: Limerick, Tipp and Galway all beaten – looking back on Laois’s...
With the Laois hurlers beginning their Leinster championship campaign this Saturday - with the first of five games in six weeks - we look...
Remembering Jim Murphy – the Laois and Leinster hurler and first scorer ever in...
It’s not everyone who can be first. As superlatives go, it tends to be up there with the greatest superlatives of them all.
“Highest,...
Six Talking Points as new Laois football season begins with big O’Byrne Cup loss
A 15-point loss was not the ideal way for the Laois footballers to begin the 2022 season but that's the start they got in...
Average asking price of Laois house now €218,000, 13% up on a year ago
The latest Daft.ie sales report shows that the average asking price of a house in Laois is now €218,000, 13% higher than what it...
Remembering some of the great Laois people who sadly left us in 2021
As one year ends and the next one begins, we often find ourselves looking back on the people we have lost.
Laois lost a number...
End of an era in Emo as community give great send off to the...
The Emo community paid farewell to Eddie Mulhall this week, a highly-regarded man who was one of the founding members of the local GAA...
Park-Ratheniska dominate 2021 LaoisToday intermediate club football Team of the Year
Park-Ratheniska's stunning success in the 2021 Laois intermediate football championship sees them rewarded with nine positions on this year's Team of the Year selection.
Having...
In Pictures: Incredible day for Ballyroan-Abbey as they triumph on the double
What a day for Ballyroan!
Sunday will be remembered fondly in Ballyroan for years to come, a day when they won two championships in the...
Seven Talking Points from a dramatic hurling finals day following wins for Ballinakill and...
It was a fantastic feast of hurling in O'Moore Park on Sunday as the domestic calendar at adult level came to an end.
We had...
The week that was: Our most read stories of the past seven days
1 - Laois mam crowned Woman’s Way and Beko Mum of the Year for 2021
A Laois mammy has been crowned the Woman’s Way and...
Sadness at death of former Laois football and St Joseph’s great Seamus Fleming
The death has occurred of Seamus Fleming, a native of The Swan, suddenly, at the age of 72.
Mr Fleming was stationed as a Garda...
The week that was: Our most read stories of the past seven days
1 - New chapter for popular Polish lady as she takes ownership of Mountmellick shop
When Ela Oczachowska arrived in Ireland as a 19-year-old, she...
In Pictures: Emotional scenes as championship title dedicated to the late Tom Delaney
There were emotional scenes in the Centre of Excellence last night as Slieve Bloom's Junior B championship win was dedicated to one of their...
