Considerable force was required to remove and destroy the beautiful floral baskets

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Laois gardaí are appealing for witnesses to come forward 

The court heard that the defendant has 27 previous convictions, eight of which are related to theft and five of which are related to section 4 public order offences

Pupils from Scoil Bhríde, Portlaoise recently made their First Holy Communion in St Peter & Paul's Church, Portlaoise. Photographer Alf Harvey went along for the Laois Nationalist and took some beautiful family photographs of the occasion.

SOON, pope Leo XIV will travel to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, returning to a place that has become one of the most powerful symbols of the migrant crisis and the Church’s call to solidarity with the vulnerable.

Mick’s Requiem Mass will be live streamed on the church link

He is charged with threatening to kill or to cause serious injury to a garda

Though no street value was given for the confiscated cocaine, its weight was enough to bring a charge for possession of drugs for sale or supply

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Some Defence Forces members were concerned about “recriminations” if they pursued formal complaints, the organisation’s head chaplain has told a tribunal.

She pleaded guilty to the offence.

THE Leinster fleadh (Fleadh Laighean), one of Ireland’s premier regional festivals celebrating traditional Irish music, song, dance and language, will return to Portlaoise this month.

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‘…her actions were somewhat like that character from the Walter Mitty novel’ – Judge Keenan Johnson

Funeral arrangements will be announced later

Family flowers only, donations if desired to the Alzheimer’s Association

A special meeting of Laois County Council will convene on Tuesday 9 June.The subject of this meeting will zero in on a specific aspect of the recently published Chief Executives' report, specifically variation No.3 in the Laois County Development ...

THE PEOPLE behind the shooting threats sent to 20 Carlow primary schools last Wednesday may have made one fatal mistake: they used a Gmail account, and Google never forgets.

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