The top choices were: Aidan Byrnes in Mountrath, Bracken's Gala in Portlaoise, Slevins' in Portarlington, Simpsons' in ...

RESIDENTS of a Laois town might as well be living in the Congo as they lack the most basic infrastructure, a local councillor ...

A new era officially dawns in Stradbally with the grand opening of a new branch of the big Laois Kildare People First Credit ...

Maureen Hanley, The Cottages, Muiríosa Foundation, Stradbally and Tuam, Galway passed away peacefully in the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise on Saturday 22 March. Maureen will be dearly missed ...

Ellen Deegan was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 15. Before undergoing treatment, she attended a fertility clinic to have her eggs frozen, a children's service funded by the Irish Cancer Society ...

The large cordoned-off area piled high with black bags of clothes in the Jack & Jill Foundation charity shop in Portlaoise is hard to ignore. Housed in an industrial unit on the edge of the ...

A son of steakhouse murder victim Jason Hennessy Snr has gone on hunger strike in Portlaoise Prison, the Sunday World can reveal. Devon Hennessy is one of five people on remand in jail after being ...

Dublin senior football star Lee Gannon paid €300 to a court poor box in exchange for having a charge of possessing MDMA at Electric Picnic struck out. Gannon (25) was one of dozens of attendees ...

Carlow’s faint promotion hopes are still alive while Laois will fall outside the top two tiers of the National Hurling League for the first time since 2013 after this afternoon’s contest in ...

Discussions are being held to try to secure a ceasefire from the largest dissident republican group, the New IRA, it has emerged. The Irish Examiner has been told by several sources that ...

A food wholesaler and distributor in Co Laois has been served a closure order by the HSE after numerous mouse carcasses along with a “large number” of rodent droppings were discovered in the ...