A NEW Year’s Eve fireworks display has been proposed for Portlaoise but it will be 2026 before it can go ahead.

MOUNTMELLICK Community School hosted a TY public speaking competition in tandem with the very successful Ógra Live Well Exposition. Primary and secondary schools from all over the county flocked to this long-awaited event to have their voice heard.

A MAN who threatened to burn down his partner’s house and cut her head off was before the Family Law Court in Portlaoise last week.

A MAN whose son threatened to kill his parents over the noise of a hairdryer had a Protection Order granted and told to come back to court for a full hearing in a fortnight after the judge said: “I’m concerned for your partner”.

THERE’S just one more sleep until Santa arrives in Portlaoise!A festive feast will get underway on Main Street at 6pm for the big Christmas lights switch-on with choirs, carols and even free selfies with Santa himself.

STUDENTS and teachers from Mountmellick got powerful tips on how to conserve electricity, during a Green Schools regional energy workshop.

PEOPLE in Laois are invited to have their say on the development of a new greenway between Portarlington and Monasterevin.

A DONATION of over €6,823. 50 from the Road to Recovery charity event enabled Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise to purchase two vital pieces of equipment this summer.

A NEW book by a Laois author is so good they launched it twice. Preston House in Abbeyleix and The Palace Bar in Dublin were both buzzing with banter and lilting with laughter, at the loquacious launches of poetry collection ‘Stoked’.

LAOIS Co Council has issued a cold weather alert, as temperatures plunge across the county. A Met Éireann Status Yellow Low Temperature/Ice warning is in place for Laois from 11pm tonight (Thursday) until 8am tomorrow morning.

Forest Fest has unveiled the first ten acts set to perform at the 2026 festival, which will return to Emo village from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 July.

A LAOIS father and son have been sentenced for assaulting three people while the son’s stillborn child was being waked at their home.

A TRAMPOLINE was among the items dumped and set ablaze in a laneway near a Portlaoise housing estate. Flames came very close to some fences and there could have been a serious incident had winds been strong, according to a local councillor.

Margaret Galvin (née Greene), Lixnaw Village West, Lixnaw, Kerry and formerly Ballyadams, Laois passed away peacefully on 19 November, under the wonderful care of staff at University Hospital Kerry and surrounded by her loving family.

Laois Heritage Society's monthly talk takes place tomorrow night, Thursday 20 November, at 8pm in the Midland Park Hotel.

THE town of Mountmellick came out in force for the launch of the Town Centre First Plan, marking a memorable evening for the entire community.

IT’S always 5. 45pm in Portlaoise, at least if you’re in Market Square. The landmark clock on the square’s busy roundabout has been stuck at 5. 45pm since the end of summer.

A woman passenger was screaming at him to stop because she feared that they would all be killed

LAOIS Hospice Foundation supporting patients with cancer and other life limiting illnesses at home, is delighted to announce the presentation of new syringe pumps to the Laois Palliative Care Team.

A DRUNKEN barefooted man, walking out in front of traffic and being aggressive towards gardaí, was given a six-month custodial sentence at Portlaoise District Court last week.