BY MICHAEL TRACEY
UNCERTAINTY remains over the future of 55 jobs at SIAC in Portarlington this week.
BY CATHY POWER
IF YOUR chimney goes on fire in Laois, it will cost you €150 to get the fire brigade to put it out, up 38% from €108. However, if you pay up on time – and that’s within 30 days – it will cost you just €135.
BY MICHAEL TRACEY and MIRIAM KEEGAN
LOCAL band Na Fianna won through to the final of the AllIreland Talent Show, Ireland’s biggest talent show, with a cash prize of €50,000 as the ultimate prize, last Sunday.
BY MAIREAD WILMOT
EXCITEMENT reached its peak in Equal Chances Polish Youth Group last week as they prepared for the arrival of a representative from the Polish government.
BY JOE BARRETT
IF what was on offer last week at the official launch of the Irish karaoke championships, which will be staged in Portlaoise over the August bank holiday weekend in conjunction with the second annual Magnet Festival, is anything to go by, then Portlaoise will be rocking for that weekend.
BY MICHAEL TRACEY
SOME of the county’s finest young music talent took part in the Laois finals of the Irish Youth Music Awards (IYMA’s) last week.
BY JOE BARRETT
FIVE years ago, five transition year students from Scoil Chriost Rí in Portlaoise gave a presentation to town councillors about a young social innovators project they had been working on.
BY CATHY POWER
ON the June bank holiday weekend, when most of us will be taking a break, six men from Laois and Offaly will be up on their tractors for three-days on a 450-mile trip from Mizen Head in Co Cork to Malin Head in Co Donegal in aid of Teenline Ireland.
BY JOE BARRETT
A DREAM come true, was how Paul Lawlor from Stradbally described his recent free football weekend away at Anfield, after winning yet another one of the readers’ competitions in the Laois Nationalist.
BY MICHAEL TRACEY
ST Paul’s National School, Portlaoise, was filled with the beguiling compositions of Chopin last weekend.