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Portlaoise is set to host a lively Brazilian festival known as ‘Festa Junina’ this weekend, Saturday, July, 19, in celebration of culture and cuisine during harvest time.

A man was arrested and around €2.2 million of controlled drugs were seized during an operation on Friday evening. Officers attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, with ...

High temperature warnings have been issued by Met Eireann for the weekend, with forecasts of 29C on Friday and 30C in some parts on Saturday. The forecaster said that Friday will be sunny, dry and ...

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road crash in which a motorcyclist was killed in Abbeyleix, Co Laois. The man, aged in his 20s, died when he crashed on the N77 at the junction of the Portlaoise ...

A motorcyclist has died following a road crash in Abbeyleix, Co Laois. The crash happened on the junction of the Portlaoise Road and Ballyroan Road on the N77 at around 7.50pm yesterday.

A MOTORCYCLIST HAS died following a single-vehicle crash in Abbeyleix, Co Laois. The crash happened on the N77 at the junction of the Portlaoise Road and Ballyroan Road at around 7.50pm last night.

A man, aged in his 20s, has died following a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Co Laois on Tuesday night. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following the fatal road traffic collision in ...

HEARTBREAKING tributes have poured in for a beloved dad-of-two who was killed in a workplace accident in Co Wicklow yesterday. John Maher, who was aged in his late 40s, was fatally injured in the &… ...