Laois are through to the semi-finals of the EirGrid Leinster U-20 championship this Saturday after a dramatic penalty shootout win over Westmeath last night.

A proud father of a 17-year-old student killed in a horrific car crash moved mourners to tears at his funeral when he spoke in glowing terms of his “innocent, quiet, shy boy” who had “left an indelible mark” on his family.

The woman who died in a head-on road collision on Monday night will be buried with her unborn daughter today following a funeral Mass in the church where she got married just last year.

A schoolboy and a young woman who was due to give birth to her first child in the coming weeks lost their lives after their cars were involved in a head-on collision.