Tag: Portlaoise

Portlaoise have appointed Turlough O'Brien as their new senior football manager for the 2025 season. The former Carlow manager and Eire Og club man will...

"The people of Portlaoise felt abandoned" during the recent cold snap, Laois County Council has heard. Speaking at the first meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal...

A Laois support group has announced it will hold an open meeting at the end of the month to help spread awareness about the...

Portlaoise are set to appoint Cyril Duggan as the new manager of their senior hurling team. After two successful years, Tommy Fitzgerald departed to take...

A bizarre situation unfolded throughout Portlaoise recently as a man carried out several acts of destruction - on snowmen. An individual calling himself the 'Snowman...

Gardai in Laois are appealing for information following a robbery and assault which occurred on New Year's Day. Gardai say that the incident happened between...

Portlaoise experienced a "transformative morning" on Wednesday, as the usual hum of car engines gave way to the cheerful chatter of students walking to...

Two Laois students have been awarded scholarships as part of Johnson and Johnson’s Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Undergraduate Awards. The pair, who are both from...

Graiguecullen 3-13 Portlaoise 1-8  Laois U-20 Football Championship Semi Final  Graiguecullen are through to their first U-20 final since 2017 following a comprehensive win over Portlaoise...

Portlaoise 1-12 Crettyard-Spink 1-12 Laois U-20 FC 'A' Group A Round 5 Crettyard-Spink tonight advanced to the Laois Shopping Centre U-20 FC 'A' semi-finals as Group A...

Na Fianna Og 1-7 Portlaoise 2-9 Laois U-20 FC Group A Round 3 Portlaoise maintained their 100% start to the Laois U-20 football championship with a...

Sarsfields 3-11 Portlaoise 0-4 Laois Ladies MFC Sarsfields have claimed the final Laois LGFA trophy on offer this season. Their minor team were excellent in Annanough on...

Portlaoise 1-11 Mountmellick Parish Gaels 0-11 Laois U-20 Football Championship Group A Round 2  Portlaoise have made it two wins from two in the Laois U-20...

Laois County Council have approved a loan of €1.25 million to purchase land in Portlaoise and Mountmellick. The proposal came from Senior Council Engineer, Mr...

Parents and children in Laois are enduring a harrowing experience at the moment as they struggle to cope with the ongoing shortage of enrolment...

A house in Laois has recently become one of the most expensive residential properties in the county, selling for over half a million euro. The...

Portlaoise 4-12 Ballylinan 0-9  Laois U-20 Football Championship Group A Round 1  Portlaoise made a winning start to the Laois U-20 Football Championship away to Ballylinan...

Portlaoise 1-10 St Lazarian's 1-3 Laois Junior Camogie Championship Final Portlaoise have clinched Laois Junior Camogie Championship glory with a comprehensive victory over St Lazarian's in...

A meeting has been called with the officials of Bord na Mona to discuss the possibility of opening the proposed O'Moore Way in Portlaoise. The...

Halloween season is here but there will be fancy dress of a different kind this month as well, with the sparkle, shimmer and shine...

There were jubilant scenes as Portlaoise ended a minor football championship drought that stretched back 12 years. Hard and all as it is to believe,...

Portarlington 3-13 Portlaoise 0-13 Laois SFC Final Portarlington are the Laois Shopping Centre Senior football champions once again following victory over Portlaoise this afternoon. Pat Roe's charges...

Portlaoise 4-7 Portarlington 0-11 Laois MFC Final Portlaoise have won their first minor football title in 12 years after they got the better of Portarlington in...

Laois SFC Final - Portarlington v Portlaoise In O'Moore Park at 4pm It may not have much in the way of novelty, but a Portarlington-Portlaoise final...

It's the Laois club football rivalry of this generation. Portarlington v Portlaoise, the two biggest towns in the county and the clubs that have...

Portlaoise 2-11 Ballyroan-Abbey 1-9 Laois IFC Relegation Final Portlaoise's second-string football team will play at the intermediate grade once again in 2025 after they got the...

First of all, it's not a 'famine', it's not a 'drought'. Not in the traditional sense anyway. But for Portlaoise, with 35 title successes in...

There have been a number of industrial planning applications submitted to Laois County Council recently, the most high-profile of which are in Portlaoise and...

Portlaoise 7-9 Sarsfields 3-5 Laois Ladies U-14 Final Molly Jane Dempsey capped off a professional team performance as Portlaoise bettered Sarsfields in the U-14 ‘A’ final. Dempsey...

Portlaoise 2-12 O'Dempsey's 1-11 Laois SFC Semi Final Goals in either half proved the difference as Portlaoise defeated O'Dempsey's to return to the Laois Shopping Centre...