Up to 1,500 motorists overcharged on the M1 motorway are to get a refund by the end of the month.

The Government is under-funding vital road repairs by as much as €100m every year, putting lives at risk and undermining the safety of road surfaces across the country.

St Vincent's (Dublin) 3-12 Portlaoise (Laois) 3-9

Portlaoise 1-9 Moorefield 0-8

Portlaoise 2-08 Arles-Killeen 1-08

Portlaoise, Graiguecullen, Arles-Kilcruise and Arles-Killeen will contest the Laois SFC semi-finals.

The lives of three brothers and a friend were “snuffed out needlessly” in a “moment of madness” when alcohol and speed combined, a coroner said yesterday.

Ballymun Kickhams 0-11 Portlaoise 0-08

Ballymun Kickhams 0-11 Portlaoise 0-8

It was a seemingly innocuous question towards the end of a group interview last Wednesday that had Brian Mulligan close to welling up.

St Brigid's (Dublin) 2-16 Portlaoise (Laois) 1-15 (aet), Parnell Park

PORTLAOISE’S run towards a fifth consecutive Laois SFC title moved a step closer on Sunday evening as they overcame a dogged Stradbally side to book their place in the final.

A MONUMENT unveiled yesterday in honour of a brave young Irish soldier, who has been missing in action for 50 years, will help ensure his memory and sacrifice endures, his family said.

TRUCKERS Delight justified favouritism and provided trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon with a welcome change of luck when scoring in the Connacht Tribune Handicap Chase, feature of the final day of the Galway Festival.

ALAN KERINS was seemingly omnipresent around Croke Park yesterday as Clarinbridge became the latest Galway representatives to All-Ireland club hurling honours.

THIS is the biggest day in the year for GAA clubs, St. Patrick’s Day, All-Ireland club finals, and due respect to the players from the four clubs who have made it this far – regardless of results today, it’s a magnificent achievement.

A LIMERICK schoolboy, with lightening fast hand-eye co-ordination, is hoping to book his place on the Irish team to travel to the US next month for a major international sports championships.

KILDARE have shown their ability to snatch a result at the death on a couple of occasions this year, most recently when full-back Mick Foley grabbed an equalising goal in Ballybofey last week.

LAOIS suffered the first defeat of their league campaign but, as defeats go, it was a good one and they can learn from it.

Kildare 1-13 Laois 1-11

O’Loughlin Gaels (Kilkenny) 0-14 Oulart-The-Ballagh (Wexford) 1-8

KILKENNY champions, O’Loughlin-Gaels saved themselves from the grave with only seconds remaining in normal time and then made Ballyboden St Enda’s (Dublin) pay the ultimate price when they scored a daring win in this thrilling Leinster Club SFC semi-final in Nowlan Park yesterday.

Laois manager Sean Dempsey has stuck with the same team which drew with Meath last weekend, for Saturday's Leinster SFC quarter-final replay at O'Connor Park in Tullamore (throw-in 7pm).

FOLLOWING the debacle of last year’s embarrassing Leinster championship exit to their fierce local rivals Kildare, Laois football was at a crossroads.

DUBLIN make five changes in personnel as well as a couple of positional alterations for their NFL Division 1 clash with Mayo at McHale Park, Castlebar.

Portlaoise (Laois) 1-9 Clara (Offaly) 0-3

CLARA (Offaly) 1-5 PORTLAOISE (Laois) 0-7

THIS was no thriller but Portlaoise won’t care. Yesterday was all about the numbers – a sixth county title and their first three-in-a-row since 1987.

Down 2-9 Laois 0-7

Kildare 2-18 Laois 0-09

Meath 1-8 Laois 0-6

LAOIS 2-11 ARMAGH 2-8

GER REIDY of Castleisland Desmonds and Aidan O’Shea from the Glenbeigh-Glencarr club are the two new faces on the Kerry team to play Donegal in the opening round of the Allianz NFL at Austin Park, Tralee tomorrow.

An 18-year-old boy who fatally stabbed another teenager last year has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A MEMORABLE DAY for Wexford football in Croke Park yesterday, when the enormous achievement for rookie manager Jason Ryan and his players in making the Leinster final after a lapse of 52 years superseded the manner in which it was accomplished.

Five players, including goalkeeper Michael Nolan, will make their championship debuts for Laois in Saturday's Leinster SFC quarter-final clash with Wicklow at Dr Cullen Park (throw-in 7pm).

Brian 'Beano' McDonald has recovered from a wrist injury to be named in the Laois side to take on Derry in NFL Division 1B this Sunday at Celtic Park (throw-in 2.30pm).