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 ...

LAOIS came into this game with momentum and purpose following their opening round win over Waterford, but they left Aughrim with plenty to reflect on after a second-half showing that never truly sparked into life.

LAOIS’S Joe McDonagh Cup campaign hit a serious speed bump on Sunday afternoon as Kildare pulled off another shock result in the competition and came away from Portlaoise with an 11-point victory.

LAOIS manager Tommy Fitzgerald was disappointed following his side’s first loss in the Joe McDonagh Cup after a shock result against Kildare on Sunday afternoon.

LAOIS ladies football manager Stephen Duff was left frustrated by his side’s inefficiency in front of goal as they came up short against Westmeath in the TG4 Leinster Intermediate final on Sunday afternoon.

LAOIS senior football manager Justin McNulty pulled no punches following his side’s five-point defeat to Wicklow in the Tailteann Cup on Saturday evening, admitting that the performance in Aughrim was well short of what was expected.

FOR the second year in succession Laois lost out on a Leinster Intermediate Championship in Netwatch Cullen Park and again it was agonisingly close to victory.

LAOIS camogie co-manager Pat Collier was gracious in defeat after seeing his team lose a second successive Leinster Intermediate Championship final in Netwatch Cullen Park.

Sunday’s TG4 Intermediate Leinster final in TEG Cusack Park ultimately came down to a blistering opening spell from Westmeath - one that Laois never fully recovered from.

Laois 1-19 Kildare 1-10 TODAY Kildare and Laois meet in a very important Joe McDonagh Cup hurling clash in Laois Hire O’Moore Park (3pm). They may be near neighbours but have not met very often at senior hurling level.

A MIDLANDS derby awaits in the TG4 Leinster Intermediate final when Laois travel to TEG Cusack Park in Mullingar to take on Westmeath tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon (4pm).