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School fundraiser As you know the one and only fundraising event for our school this year will be an evening at the Longford Greyhound track on Friday, June 20th. We need you to lend your support to this event. Each family is being asked to sell 5 ...

14 Jun 2014 at 18:38

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Author John Connell becomes Longford Reads Ambassador

... You see reading changes how we see the world, in the pages of the great writers like John McGahern or the poems of SEAMUS HEANEY we can get a glimpse of a way of life and come in a strange way to know ourselves better. In literature, in the words of...

24 Feb 2021 at 16:00

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18 complaints from Longford to Ombudsman for Children’s Office

There were 1,812 complaints to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) in 2022, with 18 coming directly from Longford. The OCO deals with complaints about services for children and is an alternative to court for those who are not happy with ...

25 May 2023 at 12:56

Sport

Longford ladies destroy Derry to qualify for final at Croke Park

Longford – 9-26 Derry – 0-3 Not being over confident but the Longford Ladies always knew they would beat Derry and advance to the All-Ireland Junior Championship Final at Croke Park. What they didn’t expect was the landslide winning margin ...

08 Sept 2016 at 16:00

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Deaths in Longford - Saturday, November 26, 2022

Dzidra Bolmane, Bracklin Park, Edgeworthstown, Longford The death occurred, peacefully in the Regional Hospital Mullingar surrounded by her family, on Thursday, November 24, 2022 of Dzidra Bolmane, Bracklin Park, Edgeworthstown, Co ...

26 Nov 2022 at 19:20

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Ballinamore

LEITRIM MS The branch would like to thank Liz Rogan for organizing this event and everyone who sponsored this swim and especially the swimmers who braved the icy cold waters of Lough Rynn on the 17th March. And through the hard ...

13 Apr 2011 at 12:43

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Abbeylara

Baptism We welcome into the Christian Community, Saoirse Noreen, daughter of Eamonn O’Donnell and Yvonne Miller, Clough. Marriage Congratulations to Lorraine Fahey, Masterson’s Close, Abbeylara and Tom Needham, Rathcabin, ...

01 Nov 2014 at 19:05

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Longford Leader columnist Mattie Fox: Eugene McGee was ahead of his time and a man of great kindness

... so.... it was up to you now.” Bob, who has great passion for poetry, cites the opening lines of one of SEAMUS HEANEY’s poems - an elegy for Lowell - as being salient by quoting ‘The way we are living, Timorous or bold, Will...

18 May 2019 at 17:00

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Taoiseach confirms extension to Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland

...in expected to take place, although. A full listing of measures will not occur on May 5. While quoting poet SEAMUS HEANEY in saying, "if we can winter this one out, we can summer anywhere," the Taoiseach said: "We cannot be...

10 Apr 2020 at 17:27

Deaths

Deaths in Longford - Sunday, November 27, 2022

27 Nov 2022 at 14:21

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Abbeylara

Deaths Your prayers are requested for the happy repose of the soul of Frank Brady, Barraghmore, Drumlish, Longford/Granard Co. Longford who died on Saturday, 8 March. He will be sadly missed by his loving family ...

22 Mar 2014 at 11:09

Arts culture entertainment

Kenagh man to star in Christmas Day tribute to Seamus Heaney on TG4

A Kenagh man will be one of the stars in a televised tribute to the late poet SEAMUS HEANEY which will be broadcast on Christmas Day. Eamon Egan will appear alongside his grandson Bernard in a special edition of ‘Imeall’ on...

23 Dec 2013 at 21:00

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