• Thumbnail for Portlaoise
    Portlaoise (/pɔːrtˈliːʃ/ port-LEESH), or Port Laoise (Irish pronunciation: [ˌpˠɔɾˠt̪ˠˈl̪ˠiːʃə]), is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is located...
    35 KB (3,248 words) - 13:40, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portlaoise Prison
    Portlaoise Prison (Irish: Príosún Phort Laoise) is a maximum security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland. Until 1929 it was called the Maryborough...
    10 KB (1,205 words) - 00:37, 6 November 2024
  • Portlaoise GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) affiliated hurling, Gaelic football and camogie club based in Portlaoise, the county town of Laois...
    40 KB (3,477 words) - 19:14, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portlaoise Courthouse
    Portlaoise Courthouse is a judicial facility in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland. The courthouse, which was designed by Sir Richard Morrison in the neoclassical...
    4 KB (340 words) - 11:13, 14 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Laois County Infirmary
    in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland. The infirmary was built by David Henry in 1808. It was replaced by the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise in...
    3 KB (139 words) - 21:01, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for County Laois
    County Council is the local authority for the county, and is based in Portlaoise. At the 2022 census, the population of the county was 91,657, an increase...
    37 KB (3,848 words) - 09:52, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for County Hall, Portlaoise
    a municipal facility in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland. Originally meetings of Laois County Council were held in Portlaoise Courthouse. After the courthouse...
    2 KB (160 words) - 12:56, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portlaoise railway station
    Portlaoise railway station is a station on the Dublin to Cork/Limerick lines in Ireland. It is also the terminus for the South Western Commuter also called...
    6 KB (342 words) - 21:42, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise
    Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Irish: Ospidéal Réigiúnach Lár Tíre, Port Laoise) is a public hospital located in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland...
    5 KB (326 words) - 11:57, 6 November 2024
  • Cashel Man (redirect from Portlaoise body)
    Cashel Man is a bog body from a bog near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland. He was found on 10 August 2011 by Bord na Móna employee Jason Phelan from Abbeyleix...
    9 KB (1,044 words) - 07:33, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for R445 road (Ireland)
    (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012 reads: R445: Naas, County Kildare — Portlaoise, County Laois — Roscrea, Nenagh, County Tipperary — Limerick — Crathloemoyle...
    13 KB (1,244 words) - 07:40, 8 September 2023
  • Brian Stack (1935/1936 — 29 September 1984), the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the neck in 1983 by members of the Provisional IRA...
    8 KB (841 words) - 20:01, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for O'Farrell v. Governor of Portlaoise Prison
    O'Farrell and Others v Governor of Portlaoise Prison, [2016] IESC 37, [2016] 3 IR 619 is an Irish Supreme Court case where the Court dismissed an appeal...
    13 KB (1,674 words) - 14:24, 19 July 2024
  • organised it since 1888. Portarlington won the 2024 title, after defeating Portlaoise in the final. The trophy presented to the winners is the Jack Delaney...
    32 KB (388 words) - 19:35, 13 October 2024
  • It has its source in the Cullenagh Hills, south of Portlaoise. It enters the town of Portlaoise from the south, passing under Main Street and flows north...
    1 KB (102 words) - 15:28, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Sheehan
    Robert Sheehan (category People from Portlaoise)
    Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Sheehan was born in Portlaoise, County Laois. He is the youngest of three children born to Maria and...
    29 KB (2,028 words) - 02:00, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2024 Laois County Council election
    County Council. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024. "Notice of Poll Portlaoise" (PDF). Laois County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original...
    21 KB (247 words) - 21:43, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emo, County Laois
    resting-place') is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It is located near Portlaoise on the R422 regional road just off the M7 Dublin–Limerick motorway. The...
    4 KB (302 words) - 13:33, 14 August 2024
  • Undetermined Female 1834 This bog body no longer remains. Cashel Man Portlaoise body County Laois 2000 BCE Male 2011 Because the body was in a crouched...
    85 KB (3,177 words) - 18:42, 17 August 2024
  • successful clubs are St. Vincent's, and Kilmacud Crokes from Dublin, and Portlaoise from Laois, who have won the Leinster championship on seven occasions...
    18 KB (402 words) - 12:30, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of deaths due to COVID-19
    States (Akron) Danny Delaney 77 Gaelic footballer and hurler Ireland (Portlaoise) Aldo di Cillo Pagotto 70 Bishop Brazil (Fortaleza) Margit Feldman 90...
    350 KB (385 words) - 16:27, 6 November 2024
  • competition. The club was established in 2005 and originally known as Portlaoise Panthers. In October 2009, Tim Bergin became the first Laois Panthers...
    3 KB (199 words) - 06:58, 1 March 2024
  • Twitter. Comerford, Mark (11 July 2024). "Independent Ireland postpone Portlaoise meeting amid unrest among the ranks of new political party". Laois Today...
    27 KB (2,282 words) - 14:24, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laois Senior Hurling Championship
    Camross 1981 John Joe Ging Portlaoise 1982 John Joe Ging Portlaoise 1983 John Joe Ging Portlaoise 1984 John Joe Ging Portlaoise 1985 PJ Cuddy Camross 1986...
    47 KB (1,586 words) - 16:02, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prisons in the Republic of Ireland
    book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) The "E" block of Portlaoise Prison was built in 1902 on the site of an old county jail which had originally...
    24 KB (2,699 words) - 10:04, 5 October 2024
  • works are held in multiple major collections. Catherine Byrne was born in Portlaoise, County Laois, in 1952, and grew up on Dublin Road there. Her parents...
    10 KB (864 words) - 21:51, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conor McGregor
    (punches) Celtic Gladiator 2: Clash of the Giants 11 June 2011 2 1:12 Portlaoise, Ireland Return to Lightweight. Win 7–2 Paddy Doherty KO (punch) Immortal...
    159 KB (13,110 words) - 11:34, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brian Stanley (politician)
    member of Portlaoise Town Council, and was re-elected in 2004, and in 2009. He was elected as a member of Laois County Council for the Portlaoise local electoral...
    9 KB (533 words) - 20:36, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape
    Gaelic Athletic Association dance in a hotel near Portlaoise on 10 December 1973 and imprisoned in Portlaoise Prison. He escaped from there in a mass break-out...
    14 KB (1,672 words) - 19:44, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abbeyleix
    Ireland, located around 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of the county town of Portlaoise. Abbelyleix is in a civil parish of the same name. Abbeyleix was formerly...
    17 KB (1,448 words) - 17:44, 18 August 2024