STAY away from Ballylinan this weekend if you’re afraid of the big bad wolf! After a five-year break, the beloved panto will return to St Ann’s Hall with a hilarious local twist on Little Red Riding Hood, with some fresh...
COMMUNITY groups, families and individuals gathered in Stradbally and Portarlington for the annual Goal mile on Christmas Day and raised almost €3,000 for the third-world charity. It was the 37th staging of the event, which is one of the country’s...
ACCLAIMED Abbeyleix artist Darren Graham is to host a short series of art classes for beginners at the town’s historic...
A LAOIS agricultural science student has been awarded a prestigious overseas travel bursary. Andrew Mansfield from Rathdowney was among six...
SINBAD will sail into The Swan this week as Wolfhill makes waves with a hilariously inventive pantomime. The eagerly awaited...
LAOIS had the highest number of crash deaths in the midlands in 2018, when six people were killed in road...
IN 2006 it started life as Portarlington Enterprise Centre (PEC). But eight years previously, a group of local people gathered...
A YOUNG Laois woman overcame illness to reach Ireland’s top ten in the leaving certificate applied (LCA) programme. Maggie Houlihan...
The fifth Portlaoise Camera Club Photographer of the Year competition was a great success for three ladies, who each won...
LORNA Holohan Garry, Sinn Féin’s candidate in this year’s local elections, is calling for the Kilcavan to Geashill Road to...
SECONDARY school students in Laois, get ready, because the countdown to this year’s Junk Kouture fashion competition has begun. Registration officially...
CONSTRUCTION work is about to begin on a kidney dialysis clinic in Portlaoise that will cater for 60 patients from...
SINN Féin’s TD in Laois Brian Stanley said that government promises to upgrade and extend services and facilities at Abbeyleix...
DID you know that blood accounts for roughly 7% to 8% of a person’s body weight? And that an average-sized...
A LEARNER-driver caught speeding at a whopping 172kph near Portlaoise is among the first to have a car seized under...
A LAOIS sportsman looking for love will line out on the First Dates Ireland TV series next month. Marathon runner and...
LEECH’S pub in Wolfhill is to become the permanent home for an acclaimed exhibition on mining in the area. A...
THE hunt is on for a vicious gang that attacked a woman when she tried to stop them stealing a...
CLLR Eoin Barry has called for greater enforcement measures to deter illegal dumpers. At a recent meeting of Graiguecullen/Portarlington Municipal...
DOES heading a football affect your memory? Research findings into this issue were enough to take Portlaoise College students Luke...
