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If you're lucky enough to be making the trek to Co Laois this weekend, keep reading to find out everything you need to know before the festival

The National Lottery has confirmed a Laois player has won the €1 million jackpot, the fifth person to win the Daily Million draw in 2025

A quantity of cash and a number of other items were also seized by gardaí.

The man has been named locally as Colm Lynch O’Sullivan (22) of Cloncourse, Ballaghmore, Laois. He was originally from Roscrea in Co Tipperary.

Sorcha Ward’s daughter, Aoife, from Co Donegal, was around 18 when she began regressing in 2016, and they are one of many families affected by the condition, marked by a sudden loss of previously acquired abilities.

Gardaí said open grounds in Co Laois would be subjected to excavation, technical and forensic examinations.

Melvyn Benn dismissed claims that Electric Picnic is ‘anti-competitive’.

The Irish Times reported that the prisoner died as a result of a suspected drug overdose.

The judge noted that Alan O’Connor, of Acorn Downes, Newbridge, Co Kildare, is fortunate to have the support of his partner.

A local woman, Nicola Glynn, and her then 12-year-old nephew, Harry, were flung from the steam engine after it was rear-ended by the defendant’s 08-registered Hyundai Accent.

Claims of wrongdoing are roundly denied by all, while the facts alleged are also in dispute.

The former Sinn Féin TD said the party was not his judge, jury or executioner.

The actor is running the Irish Life Dublin Marathon, with Emma Fogarty, who has the condition epidermolysis bullosa, joining him for the final 4km.

The EU Just Transition Area includes municipal districts in the counties Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Roscommon and the Municipal Districts of Ballinasloe (Co Galway), Athy, Clane-Maynooth, (Co Kildare) and Carrick-on-Suir and Thurles (Co Tipperary).

The incident unfolded at a house in the Heatherhill housing estate, Graiguecullen, on the Laois/Carlow town border at around 1pm on Wednesday