Mary passed away peacefully in Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dubin.

May Mary rest in peace.

Major traffic disruption is expected around Mountmellick for the next few months.

Adam and Alessio  took second place in the 2025 Generation Apprenticeship competition.

A LOCAL TD has called for traffic calming measures to be installed in a number of locations along the N80 that runs through Laois.

The 16-year old teenager Jake Cunningham Burke who had been reported missing from Mountmellick since Friday 23 May has been found safe and well.An Garda Síochána would like to thank the public for their assistance.

The event takes place on Saturday 24 May from 10am to 4pm.

Buses sought on a number of more roads in Portlaoise

AN AMAZING collection of paintings by a talented Laois artist was launched in Abbeyleix Library on Thursday 1 May. Growing up on a dairy farm in Mountmellick, Nano Culliton has been painting for most of her life.

The housing shortage in Laois will not be fixed by a Housing Tsar said the Laois TD

A LAOIS woman who made Britain her home almost 25-years ago scooped major national Public Sector Catering awards recently. Mountmellick woman Annette Ryan Murphy started off her career studying catering at AIT in Athlone before moving to Britain.

A MAN who came before Judge Deirdre Gearty at Portlaoise District Court last week was told he “was very lucky that he wasn’t killed”, when he crashed a car that he had been driving.

John (better known as Jack) Cussen, Derryguile, Mountmellick died on Thursday 24 April peacefully at The Regional Hospital, Tullamore surrounded by his loving family. John was the beloved husband of the late Kathleen.

Ellen (Lill) Maher, Harbour Street, Mountmellick passed away on Monday 21 April in the exceptional care of the staff in Saint Vincent’s Community Nursing Unit, Mountmellick, surrounded by her loving family.

HEBRON Mooncoin Limited said that it intends to apply to Laois County Council for permission to construct 74 new residential dwellings along the Mountmellick Road on the N80 in Portlaoise.

Mary Gorman (née Lalor), Emmett Street, Mountmellick died suddenly and peacefully at home on Tuesday 15 April. Mary was predeceased by her beloved husband James (Jim) and her parents Tom and Margaret (Ciss).

The defendant's car was found crashed by a garda

WHEN gardaí responded to a car crash at Emmett Street, Mountmellick last year, they encountered an upturned vehicle in the middle of the road. There was nobody in the car, but later that day, gardaí found the driver in Portlaoise hospital.

THE Independent Republican TD in Laois Brian Stanley spoke in the Dáil last week on affordable and Social Housing.

The Laois based professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter was charged with a motoring offence.