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Fibre broadband rollout expands across south Longford and Ballymahon

Construction has commenced to deliver high-speed broadband to almost 1,400 premises in the rural areas surrounding the Ballymahon deployment area in County Longford. This includes the surrounding townlands and villages of Newtowncashel, Kenagh and ...

17 Nov 2023 at 09:00

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Rollout of National Broadband Plan will not meet January target, Dáil told

The rollout of the National Broadband Plan has fallen behind schedule and will not meet its targets, the Dáil has been told. The delay has been criticised by politicians after it emerged the company charged with rolling out rural broadband ...

27 Jan 2022 at 20:20

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Longford Leader Editorial: Broadband plan saga is a mess of our own making

Nearly 20 years ago this summer Eircom was sold out of State ownership. Most of the people who bought shares did so in 1999 after a massive publicity campaign. Many were ordinary Irish people who had savings and were enticed into buying ...

21 May 2019 at 15:00

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Broadband a huge issue on Longford's local election campaign trail

Cllr Paul Ross (FG) has expressed disappointment at a delay in the National Broadpand Plan rollout, which has hit another bump in the road, only weeks after An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar promised a decision would be made before Easter. ...

18 Apr 2019 at 14:00

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National broadband plan delays are alienating rural Ireland

Fianna Fáil's Cllr Joe Flaherty has said the continued delays with the National Broadband Plan is showing little more than contempt for the people of rural Ireland. Cllr Flaherty commented, "Only recently the Taoiseach said that ...

22 Apr 2019 at 11:00

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Longford Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil local election candidates trade blows over rural broadband row

A war of words over the Government’s contentious National Broadband Plan (NBP) has erupted between two local politicians hoping to lead their parties into securing the balance of power of Longford County Council after this ...

22 May 2019 at 09:00

Local News

Project Ireland 2040: Murphy slams launch as ‘marketing campaign to promote a failed Government’

Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon/Galway Eugene Murphy has slammed the much hyped Project Ireland 2040 as nothing more than a marketing campaign to promote a government which has failed to meet its own targets to date. Deputy ...

16 Feb 2018 at 23:42

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€32 million to be invested in Longford under the National Broadband Plan

The roll out of high-speed broadband to over 8,000 premises in Longford has moved one step closer, as the Government announced that work to finalise the contract for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) is well progressed. ...

28 Aug 2019 at 14:00

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Longford 'delight' as inaugural meeting of Government's Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce Implementation Group takes place

The first meeting of the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce Implementation Group, co-chaired by Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister for ...

08 Mar 2017 at 17:29

Features

Longford Leader Editorial: Guarded welcome for national broadband plan

The signing of the €3 billion National Broadband Plan contract has come after a protracted saga over its provision. When it was eventually signed off on last week it was hailed by the Taoiseach as the “ ...

01 Dec 2019 at 13:00

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'540,000 households left in serious broadband limbo land'

The Government insists that the move will not derail the state-sponsored project, which promises high speed internet to every rural household and business in the country. The head of the only remaining ...

02 Feb 2018 at 16:30

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Boost for Longford homes and businesses as final tender for national broadband rollout is tabled

A spokesperson for the company said the documentation lodged demonstrated the Consortium’s commercial, financial, legal, as well as technical solutions for the delivery of world-class Gigabit (1,...

26 Sept 2018 at 17:00

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