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06 Sept 2025

PICTURES | Memorable day for Longford parishioners as Christmas Day Mass broadcast live from St Mel's Cathedral on RTE television

Eyes of the nation on Longford on Christmas Day 2014

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In this trip Down Memory Lane, we return to a momentous weekend a decade ago as Longford's St Mel's Cathedral reopened to public following the devastating fire of 2009 and Christmas Day Mass was broadcast live from St Mel's on RTE television. We hope you enjoy this gallery of pictures from 2014, captured through the lens of local photographer Shelley Corcoran. 

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