Tag: Best of 2017

For the third year in a row, the Dublin footballers will make a rare trip out of the city for a championship match. They did...

Ok, we'll admit that we might be a little bit over the top with this one! But when the Ploughing Championships got flooded in Offaly...

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...

Back in October, the county braced itself to deal with Hurricane Ophelia.  It was Ireland's first hurricane in a long time and in the end,...

This story in August was a terrifying one for the shop worker - with the culprit then proceeding to crash not one but two...

Scoil Chriost Ri in Portlaoise was one of the first schools to kick off the debs season this year, and boy did they kick...

In August, Motive TV were looking for people to film for their three-part documentary series following the lives of people living and working in...

After the success of the article honouring the toughest men to play football in Laois, we had to do a hurling equivalent. And while there...

David Power reported on this story for us in September.  A Stradbally woman has left almost €18m in her estate, it has emerged this week. Elizabeth Annette...

The Leaving Cert results arrived in the middle of August and all of the Laois schools recorded good results. But the points achieved by those...

We at LaoisToday do not condone the use of drugs in anyway. But this video of a Laois mammy trying weed for the first time...

In September we published this story on some of the real hard men of Laois football over the last 20 years.  We limited it to...

This was a really tragic event which happened in a flash at the end of November. Large parts of Mountmellick were completely flooded following freak...

Drama and excitement ensued in Stradbally this November as a Garda helicopter was seen circling around the area.  The Garda helicopter was dispatched after a...

This utterly bizarre story took place at the end of May. The fall-out from it saw the resignation of the chairperson of Laois Cumann na...

November was a terrible month for weather in Laois. We had rain, floods and even snow. But punters braved the rain on one particular day...

Another of our school stories which proved very popular. Although some people consider it to be in Carlow, Knockbeg College was home to thousands of...

The Laois senior footballers endured a hugely disappointing season in 2017 - being relegated to Division 4 for the first time in 50 years...

Dublin and Carlow did battle in O'Moore Park in June this year in the Leinster football quarter-final.  Dublin came out victors on the day on...

We all love a hero, and this story from April is all about one. An Egan's Off Licence employee foiled an armed robbery back in...

Electric Picnic weekend always throws up some brilliant stories and it was no different this year.  On the Friday night, local band Pogueology played at...

This Hen Party from Mountmellick went viral after dressing up as the set of the Navitity scene this August.  Mary Rose Melia and her friends...

We're a nostalgic sort in Ireland and that is no different in Laois. And most of us love to look back at our school days. We...

These lists proved to be extremely popular when we launched LaoisToday. This one is about memories from Heywood Community School in Ballinakill. Be sure to let...

This was just brilliant. In July, two Laois teenagers could find nowhere better for a kiss than outside the Courthouse on Main Street in...

Back in February, a popular Portlaoise couple packed up their lives and headed off to South Africa. Jim and Esther McCormack are now living happily...

Laois legend Pat Critchley called time on his 32-year teaching career this summer. Over the past 32 years, he worked successfully as a PE...

In July we brought you news of a dramatic fire at a house in Portlaoise.  Readers contacted us with video footage of the blaze at...

We all love a good news story and this certainly falls into that category. A woman from Portlaoise shed an incredible amount of weight and...

The infinitely wise Two Broke Divas imparted their knowledge of tanning over the summer.  And as silly season is approaching, this advice is essential to...