A BOOK of evidence is to be served on a woman charged with careless driving causing serious bodily harm. Rachel Brophy, Cloney Beacon, Ballickmoyler is charged with the offence, which allegedly took place on 1 June 2023 at Corbally, Ballylinan.

Thomas (Tom) Creagh, Johnstown Rd. Rathdowney, Laois died on 1 March, suddenly but peacefully at home. Predeceased by his parents Thomas and Mary.

STRADBALLY residents are being warned to be extra vigilant, after cars were targeted in a housing estate last night. One car was ransacked and a wallet was stolen from another vehicle, while they were parked in Brockley Park overnight on Sunday.

A FUNDRAISER for victims of a terrifying apartment block blaze has collected almost €2,800 in the first week.

MEMBERS of Mountrath Library recently welcomed award-winning international best-selling writer Niamh Boyce as their author guest for Ireland Reads Day.

Kathleen Gibson, Emmet Street, Mountmellick died on 2 March, in the loving and tender care of the staff at St Vincent's Community Nursing Home, Mountmellick. Daughter of the late Kieran and Kitty Gibson. Predeceased by her sister Ann.

A COMMUNITY engagement information meeting over a proposed windfarm stretching over 800 acres along the Cullahill Mountains is taking place tomorrow night, Tuesday 4 March. The meeting is taking place in Cullahill Community Centre at 8pm.

Ann Gorman (née Bergin), Cherry Grove, Portlaoise died suddenly at her residence on Sunday 2 March. Ann was predeceased by her husband Fint, grandsons Craig, Aaron and Tyler, granddaughter Ava and brother Ray.

THE popular television programme ‘Home Grown’ returns to RTÉ One with a brand new third series celebrating Irish horticulture and takes a look behind the walls of one of the prisons in Portlaoise.

SCHOOLS in Mountmellick, Portarlington and in Ratheniska have been approved for new special education classes.

A CRITICAL care nurse escaped a conviction and a driving disqualification at Portlaoise District Court when she agreed to donate €1,000 to North Tipperary Hospice.

LAOIS County Council is considering landscaping the concrete area in front of Keegan’s Funeral Home in Portlaoise with biodiversity and pollinator friendly plants before the end of Summer.

Kathleen Gibson, Emmet Street, Mountmellick, Laois Kathleen Gibson, Emmet Street, Mountmellick died on Sunday 2 March, in the loving and tender care of the staff at St Vincent's Community Nursing Home, Mountmellick.

A LEARNER who failed the driving test three times in the past three years was fined for driving unaccompanied on a learner permit.

A LEARNER driver doing more than 200kph with three young passengers on board was arrested by gardaí this weekend. Gardaí said today that all four people in the car, including the driver, are aged in their late teens.

PORTLAISE Tidy Towns has been awarded €39,200 for their James Fintan Lalor Landscape and Sustainable Urban Drainage Masterplan project.

Patricia Lynch, 18 Borris Road, Portlaoise passed away peacefully at Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home, Portlaoise on Sunday 2 March. Formerly of Laois County Council and Portlaoise Library.

A BANNED driver who gave false details to Laois gardaí was arrested today and the car was seized. The Mercedes saloon was pulled in by the Laois Roads Policing Unit on the M7 motorway this morning.

A BRAZILIAN national living in Carlow was given time to obtain an Irish driving licence, when he appeared before the local district court on an insurance charge.

Gardaí investigating the seizure of €421,000 of cannabis herb at a location in Clane, Co. Kildare arrested a man on Friday, during the course of a search operation.