Tag: Breaking Ball

On Sunday evening last as the draw was being made for the second round of the Laois senior football championship, Laois GAA chairman Peter...

For Portarlington, Clough-Ballacolla and The Harps, last weekend brought the best of times. After a year-and-a-half of our lives being turned upside down due to...

The Laois ladies footballers are on course to be the feel-good story of the year on the local sporting scene. They may not win the...

The Laois hurlers are operating at an elite level and so it was no surprise to hear Seamas 'Cheddar' Plunkett saying after Saturday's heartbreaking...

This Saturday the Laois hurlers will make the short trip to Nowlan Park in Kilkenny for their All Ireland Qualifier game against last year’s...

The GAA championships kicked off last weekend and to quote a line from Fr Ted, which we are very fond of doing, "it would...

"Is it as far away as Killadooley?" When I think back on my very happy primary school days in Rath National School, invariably the first...

The return of the inter-county GAA scene was signalled as a reason to rejoice back in May and while it was great to see...

There can be a perception that going away to an Ulster venue is a daunting task and with the Laois footballers set to take...

On the weekend after next the Laois footballers will make the trip to Newry to take on Down in the National Football League Division...

After Laois's 2-12 to 0-10 loss to Cork in O'Moore Park last Saturday evening there was a common consensus that it was a much-improved...

On the most recent LaoisToday Talking Sport Podcast, former Laois footballer Chris Conway joked that he had trained three times with his club Arles-Kilcruise...

Breaking Ball is a new column that will appear on LaoisToday every Wednesday throughout the sports season.  Ahead of the start of the resumption of...