Tributes have been paid following the sad death of popular Laois man Jack Bergin, late of Gash Court, Castletown, Portlaoise.

Jack Bergin, Gash Court, Castletown passed away peacefully on Sunday 16 surrounded by his loving family. Jack was predeceased ...

CLG Thuar Mhic Éadaigh gathered in huge numbers recently to mark the 60th anniversary since the formation of the Gaeltacht club. The Castlecourt Hotel in Westport was the venue for the gathering and ...

Antrim hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald has told BBC Sport NI that their Division 1B game with Laois will go ahead on Sunday as planned. An outbreak of sickness in the Saffron squad saw a number of ...

Allianz FL Division 4: Wexford 2-17, Waterford 0-11. Very NCL Division 1B: Wexford 2-11, Limerick 0-10. Lidl LFL Division 3: Wexford 1-7, Down 1-7. Electric Ireland All-Ireland Minor ‘A’ camogie ...

Laois are back in the hunt for promotion to Division 2 after victory over a 14-man Antrim this evening. Justin McNulty's charges were six points down at one stage in the second half but battled ...

The hammering Storm Éowyn delivered to Castletown Geoghegan has left a permanent mark on the local landscape: it felled 11 trees and damaged a dozen more that had formed a dramatic walkway leading ...

A pedestrian in his 70s has died following a road traffic collision in Co Laois on Sunday night. The incident involving a pedestrian and a car occurred shortly before 11pm on the N80 at Crannagh ...

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A man in his 70s has died after being hit by a car in county Laois on Sunday. The collision happened on the N80 at Crannagh, Stradbally at about 22:45. The driver of the car, a woman in her 30s ...

Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene of the fatal collision in County Laois on Saturday The mother of a five-year-old boy who died after he was hit by a car in County Laois at the ...

TRIBUTES have poured in for a five-year-old boy who died in a crash in Co Laois on Saturday afternoon. Aaron Hussain, five, was hit by a car in the Kilminchy area of Portlaoise at about 4.20pm on ...