Portlaoise, Ireland Travel Blogs

Irish Fry Up and Graveside Mass
Jun 1, 2008

... mass. People of all ages and lots of families came together to pray for the souls of their lost ones. Many families travel to Portlaoise for the Graveside Mass especially because it is on the long weekend. AJ was amazed to stand on the site where her ...

Connemarra Ponies & Ruin Exploration
Jun 2, 2008

... continued our great tan. Tomorrow we leave the family and head off to Dublin for the night prior to flying to London. Our time is Ireland is rapidly coming to an end. GK spoilt us once again with great food - lasagna for tea and we were also given a ...

travelling "Home, Right Now Then" Port Laoise
May 21, 2008

... that we have not heard comments from the shop assistants like we did in Wicklow " oh the tourists have started". It is obvious that Ireland is not used to people trapsing all over their land, that is if it is not the main tourist spots. Today has been ...

Waterford to Ballybrittas
May 31, 2008

After a very enjoyable meal at the Pub attached to the motel we were staying at we returned to our room to watch TV. Catching up on the news and seeing if Britan does have talent? The next morning we walked along the river to the main shopping square, ...

First eight weeks in County Laois
May 15, 1998 (6 photos)

... all places, is one of the few cricket teams outside of Co Dublin. I will be coming back every second weekend to play in Portlaoise in the wind and rain. I'm looking forward to it. I stayed three years in Ireland and during each summer of my three season ...

Electric Picnic
Sep 1, 2006

MEssy messy Enough said, lots and lots of self abuse!! Everyone in great form until the going home mission

Dawson Deverell - a life in Laois
Aug 25, 1999 (6 photos)

... my mid-twenties before they came around to Portlaoise.    We went to the local dances. The local dances were in Portlaoise, Mountmellick, Portarlington. I used to go to them on a bicycle until I got a car.  I was lucky to get a job with ...

Hmmm...Ireland Is Smaller Than I Thought
Aug 4, 1998 (7 photos)

... be a pretty good deal. Plus, if you eat there, they can just add it to the cost of your room. Portlaoise gets my vote as the most boring town in Ireland. We wandered around after we ate to try to see what was happening. There was nothing. I don't know if ...

Still Serving their Time
Dec 8, 1999

... beer, which was brown and an Indian Pale which was a bitter ale. A lot of people worked in Perry's. It was outside Portlaoise. Then Perry's closed and our beer was all brewed in Dublin then.   Paddy:         ...

Electric Picnic!
Aug 28, 2008 (62 photos)

I didn't think I'd get to go to this as it sold out ages ago, but lo and behold I got a ticket at the last minute through a friend of a friend of a friend.....literally!  I got my ticket at 5pm on the Thursday and it started on the Friday! It was ...