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They had at least 5 starters, all who contributed strongly, hurling under  false names as they are Roscrea players, with one of them being U17 also
As mentioned above have a look at the 'team ' photo on Laois Today

County Board / Hurling Board / Community will hardly tolerate Kyle blatantly playing illegal players throughout the Junior B championship & in a County final ??

Making a mockery of the whole county and every other club big & small who do things right.
Thought these days were well past.

Do ye know anything about Laois hurling or watching anything happening?

R/E could be relegated in the next 3 to 4 years their underage is in such a mess Blow in you obvs are not involved

Castletown have not senior quality coming through, bar one or two players off two minor panels, Abbeyleix ? I dunno where they come into the conversation
Camross are Camross and culture trumps all else
Ballacolla have moved ahead of the pack in the last few years, again building a culture for players to come thought, but are struggling underage

Portlaoise are never going to be the force they were again, not in hurling maybe in football.
The harps could potentially take over for next few years if they could make a breakthrough with the numbers they have and funding in the area,
BK will be fine too, young senior team and good juvenile club bringing through a few each year

No changes
Arrabawn Cup is the top 4 teams in the country
Arrabawn Shield is the next best 4
Arrabawn is each county's first team,

John Doyle Cup the next best 4 and so on,

Final Hurling academy day

U14 A lost to Galway B
U14 B lost to Antrim & beat Offaly

U15 A in Arrawbaun A sheild
Beat Galway A
Lost to Cork A in final

U16 A beat Clare & Offaly

I see on Dublin Gaa where our U15 Hibernia Hurling team reached the final of this competition & lost out on penalties after extra time to Dublin,

I think this would be Laois 2 v Dublin 2 mostly.

U15 was our A team vs Dublins A team in Arrabawn

U16 not sure but it's down as Wexford 1

Hurling Academy Day 2 Results

U14
Laois Blue lost to Kilkenny by 3 and by 12 in second game, in Kilkenny
Laois White beat Offaly and Westmeath in Kilcormac

U15 Arrabawn
Laois 4-25 Dublin 2-20 in Abbottstown

U16
Laois 2-11 Wexford 0-17 in Ferns

On yesterdays results from the Laois Gaa website

U17 Westmeath 0-26 Laois 0-13, again very disappointing no matter how good a Westmeath team is we shouldn't be losing by 13,
Westmeath team based off the back of a good Mullingar schools team,we're back to the same problem at secondary schools level
I understand 10 u16s were on our panel so maybe good experience for them for next year ?


U15 Results
Laois Blue 3-21 Tipperary Gold 1-11
Laois White 4-21 Westmeath 2-7

U14s beat Offaly & Kildare

Maybe glimmers of hope ?

That all sounds great.there's always a but. Do we have the coaching staff in the county board that can develop these players. Obvious answer to that based on results no we don't. The last 3 minor jobs have been given to guys who also have sons involved.so you ask yourself the question are they there for improvement of laois or for the photo of their son wearing the laois jersey.
I agree with all of above and you make some good points.but can you trust the C B to do the right thing

Lads seem to think there is a queue of well qualified people willing to get involved in underage intercounty teams and they are breaking down the doors of the county board offices to step up

There isn't

This is it , there's plenty asked all of your so called ' top coaches' have been asked to help out at u14 level upwards but no one wants to

Standards in schools need to be driven, what reward or incentive is there for a young teacher to give up his evening,
what school principals are on board or willing to try and build the culture

Kilkenny, Kerry, Tipp etc even Offalys recent success was built off of Post Primary Schools,
Limerick had Raising the Treaty, Dublin had similar

Who even here knows what needed to be done?

Who can get around a table, put down a proper plan, and most importantly action it, who's needed for that,
Who's willing to give the energy and time to it,

Aidan Stakelum from Holycross Ballycahill, former Loughmore Castleiney Coach, well regarded in Tipp Circles

They are in the B and will go close to winning the B,
Ballacolla have 4 on the U15 County Squad and Mountrath have 3, those 7 will not be on the Club U17 Team, a joke

Clough Ballacolla / Mountrath are probably now the only team at U17 team in Laois for 2026 that do not have to field any U15s, thats by choice,
They can both field U17 teams on their own for 2026, so be it if its in the B.

No way should it be allowed and I have no understanding how it was let

20/3/26
U19 Hurling Result

Laois 3-22 Offaly 0-9

Be good result to get a win in Mullingar today and have league final and promotion secured.

Great to see Picky named on todays panel.

I'm surprised at the lack of game time Eoin Fleming is getting, he was the best keeper in the Laois Championship last year and not getting any chance to challenge for the number 1 spot.