As part of our now well-established running series, we bring you this week’s ‘Good Week/Bad Week’.
To see who has had a good or bad week, we look at different news stories happening in Laois and involving Laois people. Most importantly, it’s all a bit of fun.
GOOD WEEK FOR…
Claire Melia
The Portlaoise Panthers star is heading to St Joseph’s University in Philadelphia on a basketball scholarship
Michael Nevin
Portlaoise man Michael Nevin has taken on some seriously big guns in the world of middleweight boxing and won to earn a coveted place in the last 16 at the European Games in Minsk
Ava O’Connor
Tullamore Harriers Ava O’Connor is one of the talented young athletes chosen to represent Ireland in the ‘Baku 2019’ XV Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).
Laois U20 footballers
A super second half saw the Laois U-20s dump All-Ireland champions Kildare out of the Leinster championship
BAD WEEK FOR…
Mountmellick
It is estimated that more than 1,000 fish have died along the stretch of five miles on the Owenass and Blackwater rivers in Mountmellick.
First-time buyers
The average house price in Laois is now 75 percent higher than its lowest point.
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