Fri, September 03, 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Longford was awash with activity on Sunday as the 9th annual Pat the Baker Longford Marathon came to town. Glorious suns...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Kenagh's Mosstown Harbour was officially opened on Saturday as a large crowd saw the first boat sailing through the sout...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Longford Labour Councillor Mae Sexton has said the Department of Education are being discriminatory to Irish students af...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Unique to the midlands, the Harvest Festival will return this Sunday for its third year in succession to the fields of L...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
We are living in a modern world. In every facet of life, technology has taken over and it appears as if there is no way ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Kenagh's Mosstown Harbour will re-open for the first time in sixty years to a new modern age flotilla of boats to what s...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
A local man suffered a multiple stabbing at the Centenary Square on Thursday evening last. One man was arrested for the ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Forty Bord na Móna workers are still engaging in an unofficial dispute at the ESB Lough Ree PowerStation today after wor...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Have you ever watched an episode of 'Reeling In The Years' and simmered over how the collage of scenes depicting the yea...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Until 2003, local and community authorities were virtually unrecognised. The Pride of Place awards, an idea conceived by...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Concerned members of the public have described a review of the Traveller accommodation needs in Longford as a "matter of...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
A horse that died recently as a result of its injuries outside Longford has been described as the worst seen in 25 years...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Backstage Youth Theatre (BYT) are celebrating after their successful application secured 2,500 Euro funding from Longfor...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Fingers are crossed in Colmcille this year that the annual Ploughing Festival and Heritage Day will take place for the f...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Experts have been preaching that the economic stagnation of the past few years is supposedly returning to a tolerable le...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
A local representative has claimed that the Rural Transport System may still be under threat. Longford Fine Gael TD Jame...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Fingers are crossed in Colmcille this year that the annual Ploughing Festival and Heritage Day will take place for the f...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
World-class motorcycle stundrider Mattie Griffin will be the star attraction when the Abbeyshrule Airfield Funday kicks ...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Irelands biggest and best show the Tullamore Show & AIB National Livestock Show takes place on Sunday, 8th August in Tul...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Longford has been singled out for attention in a housing report criticising the planning system during the housing boom....
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The Abbey Theatre is proud to present a major new production of Sean O'Casey's masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars. Th...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Saturday the 31st of July will be a day and night to remember. Back by popular demand the Micro Music 'Helium Festival' ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
HSE supplemented housing in the town of Granard has come under scrutiny in the last number of weeks. Granard Independent...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
A Fine Gael councillor has highlighted improvements that could be taken on the Camlin River to alleviate future flooding...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Well Oxegen 2010 was just as epic as it sounded. Once the luggage was carried in, well dragged in, in many respects, the...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Last month the people at Longford Citizen's Information organised a special event that demonstrated the emergence of a s...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Feuding scenes in Springlawn on Tuesday last, have been described as "Belfast riots" by Granard Town Councillor Eddie Ke...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
In the course of a 20-minute meeting receiver Alan Flanagan confirmed the fears of over 100 workers at a cable manufactu...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Longford company Cameron Willis has played its part in assisting attempts to bring an end the ongoing oil leak crisis in...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Last week the official launch of the 2010 Granard Agriculture Show took place. JV Donoghue's was the location and there ...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Longford Town Council may not proceed with the plans to regenerate the Willow Park halting site on the outskirts of Long...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
B3 workers will know their fate this week when it will be announced whether or not the company has been successful in ob...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
The Ballinalee Connemara Pony Show 2010 was a marvellous day out held in Aughnashannagh, Ballinalee There was an air of ...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Bernard Canavan is an Edgeworthstown born artist and a teacher. He has taught Irish history for Birkberk extra-mural dep...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Springlawn in Longford town was the scene of destruction when a supposed 'family feud' led to a gang damaging the panels...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
"When you haven't applied for a job in over 20 years, you just don't know where to start. We are not able to think now,"...