Tag: 1973
County Final Memory: Looking back on Ballylinan’s last intermediate triumph in...
Ballylinan 4-9 Mountmellick 0-8
1973 Laois IFC Final
Fifty years is a long time to be without championship silverware - but that is exactly the situation...
County Final Memory: St Joseph’s come of age as they achieve...
Ahead of a 50-year reunion for the St Joseph's senior championship winning side of 1973 this weekend, we reproduce our County Final Memory piece...
Laois Football Memory: Momentous occasion in London as All Ireland junior...
Laois football teams have gone overseas on a handful of occasions in the county's history.
In 1938 a group went by ship and played a...
County Final Memory: St Joseph’s come of age as they achieve...
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...
Election Memories 1973 & 1977: A Minister for Laois, Hall’s Pictorial...
The two General Elections of the 1970s were the first to be really contested in the full glare of the then relatively new-fangled gadget,...
Sadness in Portlaoise and beyond at passing of well-known business man
One of Portlaoise's best-known businessmen Pat Miller has died.
Pat, who only turned 70 in recent days, was the owner of Miller's Hardware on Coliseum...