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Acclaimed Longford author to unveil 'The Stream of Everything'

... a winding, bucolic account of the summer we discovered home. John Connell is the author of The Running Book and THE COW BOOK, a number-one bestseller and winner of Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. His work has appeared...

01 May 2022 at 08:00

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Renowned Longford author John Connell to release new book, The Stream of Everything

THE COW BOOK and Running Book author has used lockdown to his advantage, writing a new collection of memoirs and musings, this time reflecting our relationship to the land and nature. In his latest memoir, he recounts a canoe trip he took with author and...

11 Jan 2022 at 08:00

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Longford Leader Farming: It’s time to get filling your profit monitor input sheet for 2021

Each leg is critical to ensure the business is viable and sustainable. The first leg is Grassland Management; the second leg is the Breeding and Performance of your animals and the third leg is the financial performance of the business. All three ...

10 Jan 2022 at 09:00

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Longford celebrates the magic of Christmas

...& Local facebook page daily over Christmas week. Also online will be a virtual Longford postcard written and performed by THE COW BOOK author- John Connell. The reflective miscellany shot around Longford County was created especially for people not able to...

22 Dec 2021 at 10:00

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Longford ready to take a hold of its future again

Time has stopped and time is never-ending. So it is that we’ve come to an end of sorts to our years-long journey. For nearly two years the whole of this little county has been on a soul journey, holding out on the frontlines of the heart and the ...

02 Feb 2022 at 09:00

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10 things you'll remember doing at primary school in the 90s

We put beanbags on our heads... This counted as P.E in the 90s. Long before the days of groups being brought out rock climbing or kayaking, the kids of the 90s were walking around the P.E hall trying to balance tiny beanbags on their heads. It ...

05 Oct 2021 at 14:13

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Open the door for National Heritage Week in Longford

National Heritage Week, Ireland’s annual festival celebrating and promoting all aspects of our national heritage, takes place this year from Saturday August 14 to to Sunday August 22. This year, the Heritage Council, with the Longford ...

12 Aug 2021 at 09:00

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Longford author John Connell to launch third book tonight

...The Stream of Everything, this evening (Wednesday, May 4) at 7.30pm in Longford Library. The best-selling author of THE COW BOOK and The Running Book returns with this story of the Camlin river – an ever-present source of life for his town’s...

04 May 2022 at 09:00

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PICTURES | John Connell's The Stream of Everything is a love letter to Longford

... in Longford Library last Wednesday night PICTURES: SHELLEY CORCORAN When Ballinalee author John Connell launched THE COW BOOK in 2018, Longford Library was packed and the supply of books actually ran out as eager readers rushed to grab a...

11 May 2022 at 09:00

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Commanding Longford defender Andrew Farrell solid as a rock

So it is for Longford football, and for Farrell in his working life, which involves his day job in Lakeland Dairies and “a bit of farming” on the family farm as well. He’d be the first to admit that he hasn’t got it all figured out ...

07 Apr 2023 at 14:24

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Large turnout for launch of Twelve Sheep book in Longford library

...Library for the launch of his latest book. Twelve Sheep: Life Lessons from a Lambing Season follows on from THE COW BOOK and The Running Book with the same eclectic blend of history, philosophy and nature with which the author has...

13 Apr 2024 at 07:01

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Ireland’s traditional matchmaker may be the country’s last

The final remaining traditional matchmaker in Ireland fears he may be the country’s last. Willie Daly, 80, from Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, has been bringing couples together since he was a teenager. He followed in the footsteps of ...

12 Feb 2023 at 11:15

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