Offaly’s cause helped significantly by 20th-minute red card for Laois corner back James Kelly
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Laois, Down, Kildare, Louth and Armagh should progress in respective competitions
Who ranks as the main All-Ireland contender heading into the first weekend of championship action?
Laois captain scores six points from full-forward and sets up two goals to set up victory at Croke Park
Down’s fortunes likely to improve against Westmeath
While critics call for league finals to be scrapped, Laois, Longford, Wexford and Leitrim are pursuing a place in the Division Four decider. Each knows that winning it would give their county a lasting lift
The league final conundrum; Monaghan finally make the drop; Old school attacking; Kilkenny’s auditioning process
There’s a stark poignant depth to the Laochra Gael episode on the life and times of Laois’s lone hurling All Star Pat Critchley
Former Mayo TD and Mayo manager John O'Mahony sympathises with Justin McNulty as he seeks to combine his SDLP role with the task of managing Laois footballers
SDLP suspended McNulty from party after the MLA left first sitting of the new Northern Assembly on Saturday to manage Laois in a league fixture
Wexford and Tipperary among the teams eyeing promotion and escape football’s basement division
As she heard evidence in Portlaoise District Course before finding two people guilty of assaulting Michael Tarpey, a judge seemed exasperated at repeated suggestions that GAA rules are only observed ‘from time to time’
53-year-old found to have headbutted a referee in a match between Portarlington and Stradbally last year
Significant Leinster scalp for five-in-a-row Kildare hurling champions Naas
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