The last of the 200 or so staff pulled the door behind them. 

The prosecuting garda said that the motorist was not wearing a top and was sweating profusely

A MAN asked Judge Andrew Cody not to send him to the Midlands Prison because prisoners in there are fighting with him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"It’s a death trap," warned one councillor.

A MOTORIST who struck a cyclist on a pedestrian crossing was fined €250 when he appeared at Portlaoise District Court last week. The court heard that at 7.

JUDGE Andrew Cody told a defendant that he was a very accommodating person and if he wanted to be taken to jail that he could oblige him with his request.

"Can we have some idea when the lights will be fixed," asked the councillor?

A TEENAGER was told by Judge Andrew Cody at the juvenile sitting of Portlaoise District Court last week that if he failed to provide clean urine tests for the next five months that he would be sent to the Midlands Prison.

JUDGE Andrew Cody said he is sick to his teeth of people not paying outstanding fines. He made the comment at Portlaoise District Court last week when a woman was brought before him for non-payment of fines that were imposed nearly seven years ago.

TWO years ago €2 million was spent upgrading the N80 road from Portlaoise to Mountmellick.

THE Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise was well represented at a recent Fáilte Ireland's EU Just Transition Tourism Learning Network Programme workshop and networking event.

THE Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise was well represented at a recent Fáilte Ireland's EU Just Transition Tourism Learning Network Programme workshop and networking event.

A MAN who “drank his head off” after sneaking into last year’s Electric Picnic in Stradbally ended up before Judge Andrew Cody in Portlaoise District Court last week on a public order offence. Garda Sergeant JJ Kirby told the court that at 8.

'The pop up Don Phalaistin was a way we could have shown our support through our own Irish culture towards what’s going in in Palestine and in Gaza' - Cllr Tommy Mulligan.