FOR many Laois people, myself included, the annual Old Fort Quarter festival serves as the official launch of the summer festival season. The Quarter in question is the area of Portlaoise in which the ...

Securing a coveted slot to exchange wedding rings on Amsterdam's usually traffic-choked ring road seemed like a good omen for Zuzanna Lisowska and Yuri Iozzelli's future life together. “It’s ...

Were you Seen at New York Capital District Renaissance Festival on June 14, 2025, at Indian Ladder Farms in Altamont?

It is expected to cost between €25m to €30m to stage Electric Picnic this year Laois County Council has given the green light for the largest ever Electric Picnic festival to take place.

THE TOWN of Abbeyleix will be a hive of activity this weekend as it hosts the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan’s 2025 Wild Bee Festival. The Wild Bee Festival, which takes place Saturday and Sunday 21 and ...

The Laois Palestine Solidarity Group will hold a rally and fundraising gig this weekend, encouraging locals to attend and raise money for a mobile maternity unit in Gaza.

Laois Volunteers in Laois open doors to mend items one stitch at a time promoting circular economy Community repair café to open in Laois. Photo: Tog Hackerspace ...

Brindle St Joseph’s PTFA have set up a Scarecrow Festival in Gregson Lane, to raise money for the school. The festival is on from 13 June to Monday (23 June) and so far, there have been over 35 ...

Thousands of people are expected to spend the next four days dancing in Sacramento. The California Dance Festival begins Thursday night at the DoubleTree By Hilton and the event runs through Sunday.

The 2025 West Hull Villages Scarecrow Hunt drew in hundreds of residents and visitors from June 7 to 14, with over 100 scarecrows on display across Anlaby, Willerby, Kirk Ella, and nearby areas.

The grass-roots organization’s Juneteenth Festival on Thursday includes a screening of ‘Where Do Black Men Live?’ By Jeffrey Kelly Updated June 18, 2025, 5:27 p.m.