From the Archives – Major milestone as Anvil Inn celebrates 40...
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Portarlington's iconic Anvil Inn celebrated 40 years in business in September...
2025 Remembered – Weekend Read: JP bows out after 40 brilliant years with Portlaoise...
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What a contribution JP Cahillane has made to the Portlaoise Pantomime...
2025 remembered – World Champion once again – Laois Irish dancer named best in...
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A two-time world champion is some achievement for young Irish dancer...
2025 Remembered – Another unholy row as Laois councillors call for changes to nomination...
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The drama of the presidential election campaign even made it into...
2025 Remembered – Two Laois farmers among award winners at Tirlán Co-op’s Dairy and...
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A big achievement for these two Laois farmers.
Two Laois farmers were...
2025 Remembered – Portlaoise restaurant shuts its doors just over a year after opening...
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This premises has been through plenty of change across the past...
2025 Remembered – Weekend Read: Laois farm upbringing instilled strong work ethic in trailblazing...
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Growing up in a busy household on the family beef farm...
2025 Remembered – Laois winners of Irish Restaurant Awards announced
A total of 18 Laois winners were crowned out at the Leinster section of the Irish Restaurant Awards held in Naas last night.
Over 1,000...
2025 Remembered – Heather Humphreys: ‘I really feel that the job of the President...
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Heather Humphreys also visited Portlaoise as part of this year's presidential...
2025 Remembered – Laois growers among winners at Tirlán Quality Grain award winners 2024
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This presentation was made in February.
A Laois family are among the...
The Week That Was: The Top 10 stories of the past seven days
1 - ‘Do It For Dan’ organisers believe they have almost reached €2.1 million goal
49 days after the Do It For Dan campaign was...
Best of 2017 – REVEALED: We’ve selected Laois’s Top 25 Snapchatters
Back in June, we launched ourselves on Snapchat.
Since then, our own audience has grown to in excess of 3,000 followers.
We also decided to pick...
LoveLaois Podcast: Beniamin Petre, Electric Picnic, Paschal’s path and building a museum in Laois
For the first time in almost two months, the LoveLaois Podcast returns to its original format.
The Friday Panel is here to look back at...
New to the Area: A young Polish man establishing himself in Irish politics
Julian Nagi is a 20 year old Portlaoise man, originally from Poland.
He is involved heavily in the political scene in Laois as the current...
Moment in Time: Portlaoise Rugby Club Dinner Dance in 2000
It seems a long time since any of us have been able to dress up and go to an event - but thankfully that...
Moment in Time: Ballylinan NS production of Robin Hood in 2009
For this week's Moment in Time, we look back to Ballylinan NS's production of Robin Hood in 2009.
It took place in St Anne's Hall,...
2021 Remembered – Laois Gardai issues fines and turn around cars for breaches of...
Back in January, Gardai were on force to ensure that the public were following the restrictions that were put in place at the time.
Gardai...
Retired Laois couple who moved to South Africa are loving their new life
A little over a year ago retired Portlaoise couple Jim and Esther McCormack bade farewell to the lives they knew in Ireland.
They sold their...
The Week That Was: The Top 10 stories of the past seven days
1 - Laois woman set to appear on new series of RTE’s Winning Streak
And she took home €30,000!
2 - BREAKING: Laois GAA announce new stadium...
Laois bride-to-be pulls out all the stops on Hen weekend
Well this is some get-up!
A Laois bride-to-be was pictured wearing a very interesting outfit at her hen party.
Roisin Behan and her army of merry...