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Pictured: Bernie and Eamonn Bracken outside their shopfront
Picture Credit: Google maps
Death Notices for Laois
Pictured at the recent Grief Awareness event are Zara Dagg, End-of-Life Care Coordinator with senior nursing and management colleagues at Portlaoise hospital.
Mystery deepens over missing former Laois resident and Offaly man who worked in Ballyfin.
Rurul Laois kids can't get into schools due to town spillovers claims councillor
Pictured: a previous crash under the Portlaoise bridge
Minster for Education Hildergarde Naughton will be accompanied by her party colleague and Laois TD Willie Aird on visit to Laois schools in Portlaoise
Pictured: St Fergal's College students at the National Concert Hall
Mountrath's St Patrick's Day parade theme for 2026 is 'Legends Galore'
The Hot Schools Meals Programme.
Recent flooding in Portarlington captured by Laois photographer Con Murphy.
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Pictured: a previous crash under the Portlaoise bridge
REVEALED: Popular bin collection company hits customers with almost 10% price hike
Picture Credit: Google maps
Credit: An Garda Síochána Missing Persons Facebook
Minster for Education Hildergarde Naughton will be accompanied by her party colleague and Laois TD Willie Aird on visit to Laois schools in Portlaoise
Mystery deepens over missing former Laois resident and Offaly man who worked in Ballyfin.
ALERT: Number of baby formula products recalled due to presence of food-poisoning toxin
Pictured: Bernie and Eamonn Bracken outside their shopfront
Michael McEvoy is the new Clough/Ballacolla manager. Picture: Denis Byrne
Laois senior hurling manager Tommy Fitzgerald
Laois Ladies Football Manager, Stephen Duff Photo Denis Byrne
Dan Luttrell was on the Laois team that won the All Ireland Junior final in 1973.
Laois Ladies still searching for first league win after defeat to Down
Laois senior football manager Justin McNulty
Left: Mossy Keyes on the run against Mayo, picture: Oonagh Maher. Right: Fiona Dooley playing against Fermanagh, picture: Denis Byrne
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Pictured: Bernie and Eamonn Bracken outside their shopfront
Credit: @waggymamas on Instagram
Credit: An Garda Síochána Missing Persons Facebook
ALERT: Number of baby formula products recalled due to presence of food-poisoning toxin
Photo credit: Muintir na Tíre
Pictured: Mountmellick Macra
A busy weekday night in an outdoors sauna in Stradbally, Laois. Photo: Leinster Express
Claire Byrne interviewed Taoiseach Micheál Martin on her first day on Newstalk.
Photography credit: Kyran O’Brien
Death Notices for Laois
Cllr Paschal McEvoy, Cllr Vivienne Phelan and (centre) Droimnín nursing home in Stradbally.
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