PORTARLINGTON are up and running in this year’s AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship thanks to an easy win over Carlow champions Old Leighlin.

PORTARLINGTON manager, Pat Roe could not have been prodder of the players in the aftermath of Sunday final. He commended the players for dogging it out against Courtwood. “I thought they were heroic, particularly in the second half.

THIS week as Laois prepare for another tilt at Wexford in the Leinster championship, we look back on a famous league meeting at Wexford Park in 2005. Wexford were bidding to reach a league semi-final for the first time in 55 years.