By Denis J. Croke
ARMAGH 0-13 LAOIS 0-12
ARMAGH returned from Portlaoise on Saturday evening with a welcome brace of league points after what has been a mixed return from their first two games.
By Denis J. Croke
THE county champions in both codes will be hopeful of getting the defence of their titles off to a winning start following the draws for this year’s championships.
By Siobhán Walsh
LAOIS 0-09 TYRONE 0-11
LAOIS suffered their first defeat of the league at the red hand of Tyrone on Sunday afternoon in Stradbally.
By Denis J. Croke
PORTLAOISE head to Rosetown on Sunday for the next round of the Towns Cup on the back of a couple of moral boosting league performances.
By Pat Delaney
LAOIS 0-13 WICKLOW 0-10
ON Saturday last Laois headed to as provincial minor champions of three years ago to Aughrim and were fancied to progress in this year’s under-21 football championship.
By Denis J. Croke
PORTLAOISE 24 BOYNE 29
DEFEAT is never embraced but Portlaoise can take a lot of solace from their performance against Boyne in their final game in this season’s Leinster League Division 1A.
By Denis J. Croke and Tomás Moore
ANOTHER hard luck story for Laois senior boss Seán Dempsey and the trap door to Division 3 continues to be a threat.
By Anne-Marie Fitzpatrick
PORTLAOISE runner Mary Mulhare was crowned the Junior Women’s champion at the Woodie’s DIY/AAI National Cross Country Championships.
By Tomás Moore
COLÁISTE EANNA CBS 3-11 HEYWOOD CS 2-12
DREAMS of reaching the all-Ireland series were ended for Heywood Community School when they narrowly lost out to Coláiste Eanna in a titanic encounter in Dr Cullen Park on Friday last.
DYNAMO TOWN 3 RATHMORE UNITED 2
SECOND-placed Portlaoise side Dynamo Town knew a victory in this clash would set them up for an assault on the league title.