They often do well there and Clough–Ballacolla were in the 2021 Leinster Final after winning the Laois Senior Hurling Championship.

[2] The winners can, in turn, go on to play in the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows: Top ten longest gaps between successive championship titles: This competition has existed in various guises since 1995.

[20] It was originally played as the Dick Palmer Cup up to 2009, then became a competition ancillary to the main championship.

In the earlier years, clubs would qualify for the Senior B by not reaching a certain stage of the main competition.