LAOIS senior football manager Justin McNulty didn’t shy away from the harsh realities of his side’s heavy 17 point defeat at the hands of Westmeath in Saturday’s Tailteann Cup preliminary quarter-final at TEG Cusack Park.

Laois manager Tommy Fitzgerald has made three charges to the team that dramatically beat Carlow to qualify for the Joe McDonagh Cup final. In come The Harps’ Cody Comerford, Fiachra C-Fennell (Rosenallis) and Mark Dowling (Camross).

Laois vice-captain Aidan Corby is hoping for a very different outcome to last year’s decider as the side prepare to take on Kildare in the Joe McDonagh Cup final.

UNLIKE Laois’s pervious game, when Laois manager Jusin McNulty sprung a surprise when Mark Barry stared the game against Offaly in O’Connor Park, there were no major changes to team named to take on Westmeath in Mullingar tomorrow.

WHEN Tommy Fitzgerald unexpectedly stepped into the Laois senior hurling hotseat, the main target was clear from the outset: get back to Croke Park and fight for a return to the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.

AS Laois prepare to face Kildare in the Joe McDonagh Cup final at Croke Park, captain David Dooley says he’s still coming to terms with the honour of being chosen to lead the county.

LAOIS may have left it late, but there was a stubbornness and steel to their performance against Offaly that bodes well heading into the knockout stages of the Tailteann Cup.

LAOIS began their TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship campaign on Sunday afternoon with an impressive win over Roscommon in Laois Hire O'Moore Park.

LAOIS manager Justin McNulty praised his players’ resilience after they snatched a dramatic 3-18 to 3-16 victory over Offaly in Saturday evening’s Tailteann Cup clash in Newbridge.

Midlands Park Hotel U/15 Hurling League Division 1 Final  Camross 3-10 Ballinakill Ballypickas 1-8 CAMROSS added another piece of silverware to their trophy cabinet on Wednesday evening at the LOETB Centre of Excellence, as they clinched the ...

AFTER the heartbreak of the Leinster final, the Laois camogie team could not afford to dwell, and they didn’t.

LAOIS booked their place in the Celtic Challenge William Robinson final with an emphatic 2-23 to 2-11 victory over Roscommon at the LOETB Centre of Excellence on Saturday afternoon.

THE Laois Camogie team bounced back from their Leinster final defeat in style on Saturday as they got their Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Premier Junior Championship campaign off to a winning start with a 2-14 to 2-6 victory over Wicklow at Laois Hire ...

THERE’S fewer sweeter things in sport than getting one over on your rivals in the dying embers of a game and thankfully it was the Laois contingent that had that winning feeling coming out of Netwatch Cullen Park on Saturday afternoon.

LAOIS manager Tommy Fitzgerald was almost speechless after seeing his team secure passage to the Joe McDonagh Cup final with a goal right at the death against Carlow on Saturday afternoon.

Joe McDonagh Cup Rd 5  Laois 1-20 Carlow 2-17 LAOIS and Carlow have produced many great exciting games since they were first paired in the Joe McDonagh Cup seven years ago.

BELOW is a report of the thrilling meeting of the Barrowside neighbours in the Leinster championship in 1964. The sides met for the first time in the National Hurling League five years previous in Athy.

EMO rounders continued their dominance at underage level by picking up the first All-Ireland titles of the year when they triumphed at the U/14 boys and girls Féile hosted in Monaghan.

98% of delegates present voted for the rights of players to choose between shorts or skorts

Midlands Park Hotel U15 Football Division 1A Final   Mountmellick Parish Gaels 1-12 Portarlington 2-7MOUNTMELLICK Parish Gaels rounded off a dream few weeks by overcoming Portarlington in a tense and ...