Tag: Weekend Read

Cutting deals in both good and bad economic times, Portlaoise born financier Seán (John) Conroy has been at the heart of the action in...

This piece was originally published on LaoisToday in the lead up the referendum that year on the 8th Amendment.  In less than a month, the...

It may be 30 years ago this month but the memories are still vivid. On two Sundays in March of 1991, Portlaoise AFC played in...

Laois man Peter Farrell was last week announced as the winner of the Macra na Feirme short story competition. A member of the East Laois...

This evening in Galway, Connacht will play Munster in the Pro12 a week on from their first win over Leinster in 19 years. Connacht sit...

Sunday in Croke Park will be another unusual day for Laois football. It's a Leinster championship semi-final double header with Meath v Kildare as the...

A focus on quality and service should be the priority of entrepreneurs at all times, according to a Laois-based businessman who sold his multi-million...

Kieran Cotter's rise in the horse racing game in the last 18 months has been nothing short of meteoric. The flat racing trainer - who...

Following Liverpool's Premier League title success this week, we asked two local long-suffering Liverpool supporters to write a piece on what it meant to...

There's not too many Laois footballers with as many hard-luck stories as Chris Conway. The Arles-Kilcruise man made a huge contribution to the Laois jersey...

Any future development, housing or investment in a popular Laois village is at a standstill due to a bizarre problem over the status of...

In this age of social media - and the constant negativity that goes with it - it would be easy to think that the...

Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Add in to that mix Verona Murphy, Eoghan Murphy and Dara Murphy and...

Brought to you in association with People First Union At 10.30pm on Monday evening last in a warehouse in Kea Lew Business Park in Portlaoise...