The 29-year old works out of Portlaoise Garda Station.

With six stages over the weekend festival, music lovers and festivalgoers are in for a treat. 

May Sharon rest in peace.

The company's staff donned gardening gloves and boots to help put the finishing touches to the tidy towns entry.

ANOTHER privately owned nursing home in Laois has received a poor report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA).

A 21-YEAR-old woman was fined €200 at Carlow District Court for damaging a hotel room, causing €140 worth of damage, when a shower was left running after checkout.

See more photos from The Fort show in a two-page feature in this week's Laois Nationalist, in shops and online on Tuesday 22 July PORTLAOISE rocked to the sounds of summer when talented young musicians gave fantastic live ...

Over €25,000 was granted to a total of 54 groups around Laois.

See our two-page photo feature on the memorable day in the next edition of the Laois Nationalist, in shops and online on Tuesday 22 July WITH temperatures high up in the 20s and the sun blazing down, people flocked to Corbally, ...

The death has occurred of James Cassidy, 26 Meadow Brook, Rosenallis, Laois. James died peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, at Beaumont Hospital Dublin, on 19 July. Rest In Peace.

The information clinic takes place on Wednesday 23 July in Portlaoise Library.

A FAMOUS Laois restaurant and café will reopen next week, six years after a devastating fire forced its closure after 36 years in business.

May Anna Rose rest in peace.

A TICKET sold in Laois won the top prize of €1 million in the Daily Million draw last night. The National Lottery confirmed this morning that a Laois ticket scooped the prize in the 9pm draw yesterday, Friday 18 July.

Marcella Campbell (née Early), O’Moores Forest, Mountmellick (R32R9Y7) and formerly of Clongorey, Newbridge and Stickens, Caragh, Co. Kildare passed away peacefully Friday 18 July at home surrounded by her loving family.

An ambulance was called and paramedics saw to her injures, but the woman declined to be taken to hospital.

The death has occurred of Marcella Campbell (née Early), O'Moore’s Forest, Mountmellick, Laois and formerly of Clongorey, Newbridge and Stickens, Caragh, Co Kildare.

LAOIS cancer survivor and lung cancer awareness advocate, Samantha Vaughan, has become the driving force behind Ireland’s first white ribbon campaign to raise awareness for lung cancer, partnering with Breakthrough Cancer Research to launch the ...

The 16-year old has been missing for the past 10 days.

Christopher Hanrahan, Cuan Bhride, Rathdowney, Laois died unexpectedly at home on 17 July. Predeceased by his parents Matthew and Elizabeth Hanrahan.