The Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating the death of a man in a farming accident in Co. Laois.

Two men will be sentenced later for their roles in a botched drug dealer robbery which left a man dead.

EVERYBODY is worried about breast cancer misdiagnoses in Portlaoise, though they started in places like Cork and Limerick where the situation is much worse.

WHILE I am not a medical person, I am amazed nonetheless at the headlines and false reports in the controversy arising from breast cancer misdiagnosis.

A man has died after the car in which he was travelling collided with an articulated truck in Portlaoise, Co Laois, this morning.