An Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Offaly IFA chairman Joe Parlon; Laois IFA chairman Pat Hennessy; Ger Bergin IFA; Mairead McGuinness MEP and Laois/Offaly TD's Marcella Corcoran Kennedy and Charles Flanagan in Portlaoise to promote a Yes vote in the Fiscal ...

An account purporting to be belonging to Wicklow midfielder James Stafford (@RealStafford) sent a tweet to well-known former Laois footballer turned GAA analyst Colm Parkinson for critical remarks he made about Stafford during an appearance on The ...

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny exhorted Yes campaigners in Laois-Offaly to carry the message for a Yes vote right up until Thursday, and to not let up in the final days of the campaign. Speaking in Portlaoise last Friday evening, the Taoiseach underlined the ...

That's the view of Laois star Lorraine Muckian, who emigrated to Vancouver a few months after winning her second Allstar in 2010 and was on the winning side in the TG4/O'Neills Allstar game in Toronto at the week-end. Meanwhile, an all-Canadian Gaelic ...

2010 All stars -- E Murphy (Kerry); R Ruddy (Dublin), L Muckian (Laois), S McLaughlin (Tyrone); S McGrath (Dublin), B Stack (Cork), G Fay (Dublin); D Masterson (Dublin, capt), T Lawlor (Laois); C Donnelly (Tyrone), G Begley (Tyrone), A McGuinness ...

Laois-Offaly TD Brian Stanley said next month the party would introduce the Local Government Household Charge Repeal Bill, seeking to force the Government to get rid of the charge. He urged unions, community groups, councillors and TDs, ...

2010 ALL STARS: E Murphy (Kerry), R Ruddy (Dublin), L Muckian (Laois), S McLaughlin (Tyrone); S McGrath (Dublin), B Stack (Cork), G Fay (Dublin); D Masterson (Dublin, capt.), T Lawlor (Laois); C Donnelly (Tyrone), G Begley (Tyrone), A McGuinness (0-2, ...

And, a general improvement, marked by impressive play from the Laois pair Lorraine Muckian and Tracey Lawlor and Cork star Brid Stack, along with Gemma Begley (Tyrone) and Dublin's Sinead Aherne made for a really competitive last 20 minutes.