Laois delivered a strong second-half display to deliver Joe McDonagh Cup silverware at Croke Park this afternoon.

Limerick posted a predictably straightforward victory in this Allianz Hurling League Division One quarter-final on Saturday evening.

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It wasn't always pretty from Dublin at rain-drenched Parnell Park but Mattie Kenny's men dug deep to secure the win and top spot in Division 1B of the Allianz NHL.

A late flurry of scores from Laois masked the dominant nature of Offaly’s performance at

The UK and Irish governments should publish their proposals to revive powersharing in Northern Ireland if no deal is done this week, the leader of the SDLP has said.

Laois 3-25 Meath 2-13: Laois manager Eamonn Kelly admitted he couldn’t recall a better midfield display than Paddy Purcell’s in Navan.

The Ulster Unionist Party has described proposals to change the official name of Londonderry to Derry as “divisive and unnecessary”.

If you want to chill out in one of the least commercialised fishing villages in the country, treat yourself and head to Dunmore East says Claire O’Sullivan.

Wexford 5-22 Laois 0-25

The financial problems for a Dublin city centre club and restaurant stemmed from its directors acquiring a company that had extensive debts, of which they were unaware, a judge stated yesterday.

Allianz Hurling League Division 1B: Laois 0-23 Offaly 1-24: Offaly manager Brian Whelahan sent out a defiant message to his team’s detractors after their win over Laois in O’Moore Park on Saturday night.

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David Cameron will “look at” the possibility of fulfilling Gerry Conlon’s dying wish for people he nominated to have access to secret government documents about the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing for which he was wrongly jailed.

For the second time in 12 months Galway got the fright of their lives in the Leinster SHC as the Tribesmen carved out a two-point win over a determined Laois side in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise.

The British Government is facing mass legal action over alleged collusion with loyalists in murders in the North during the 1970s.

Clare 2-23 Laois 2-19

Laois 2-12 Antrim 0-21

Calls for Bloody Sunday soldiers to be granted amnesty on the back of a deal for IRA on-the-runs are inevitable and predictable, a senior Northern Ireland politician has said.

Calls for Bloody Sunday soldiers to be granted amnesty on the back of a deal for IRA on-the-runs are inevitable and predictable, a senior politician in the North has said.

Offaly 2-14 Laois 1-19

Laois 2-18 Carlow 0-13

Laois 2-18 Carlow 0-13

Four men have been arrested after a bomb was found in Derry.

Patients on five floors at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry were evacuated because of a fire on the roof last night.

After the drubbing their seniors took on Sunday, Laois showed there is plenty of spirit left in the county with a wonderful win over Dublin in the Bord Gais Energy Leinster U21 HC quarter-final last night.

Laois ousted last years beaten All-Ireland finalists Dublin, while Wexford also advanced to a Leinster semi-final berth.

A blowout in this hugely disappointing Leinster senior hurling championship quarter-final in Tullamore on Saturday as Dublin cruised through the 70 minutes against an outclassed Laois side.

For Saturday's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Dublin, the Laois hurlers are unchanged from the side which beat Carlow a fortnight ago.

Thousands are expected to attend a rally against the Republican Action Against Drugs group in Derry later.

Clare had just too much power and speed for Laois at Portlaoise yesterday, but when one recalls the dreadful championship humiliation suffered by the Moores at the hands of Cork in the same venue last summer, there was plenty to be positive about formanager, Teddy McCarthy.

Clare 2-22 Laois 2-13

Joe Canning fired Galway into the Walsh Cup final and past a lacklustre Laois in a sodden Duggan Park in Ballinasloe yesterday.

LAOIS began life under Cork legend Teddy McCarthy with a battling extra-time victory over DIT in Rathdowney on Saturday.

SATURDAY

WEXFORD made it a dismal week for Laois hurling as they handed the visitors a real mauling in this one-sided Leinster Under-21 hurling championship semi-final at Wexford Park last night.

Three masked men carrying a bomb burst into a bank in the North today and warned terrified customers it would explode in an hour.

Laois 3-12 Antrim 1-21

A Sinn Féin member will take up the symbolic role of Stormont Assembly speaker in three years after the party struck a deal with the DUP to share the post.