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Garth Brooks in Ireland: Croke Park stage times

Country music singer Garth Brooks will take to Dublin's Croke Park stage over the next nine days. Brooks' highly anticipated shows will see an expected 400,000 fans watch the superstar perform in Ireland - his first time staging a concert in the ...

08 Sept 2022 at 21:28

Jobs

Electric atmosphere at 116th Co Longford Show & Country Fair in Lisnamuck

"We are absolutely delighted with how things have gone today," secretary, Bernie Whyte told the Leader. "Probably one of the most successful shows ever held in Longford." For lots more on this story, see next week's Longford Leader on sale ...

02 Jul 2017 at 19:43

Home

Top of the class at Longford Show & Country Fair launch

And, following on from last year's standout show, the committee is hoping for fine weather to ensure a similar level of success on Sunday, July 1. “Last year was our most successful show to date,” said a delighted Chairman, Charlie Murphy ...

29 Jun 2018 at 17:00

Covid-19

Country music stars to host Facebook live concert for charity tonight

With the Covid-19 having a huge impact on so many businesses and charities for the next few weeks, many country music stars have joined together for a fundraiser concert to be broadcast live on Facebook. The first-of-its-kind event is ...

16 Mar 2020 at 14:00

Longford Town

All roads lead to Lisnamuck for Co Longford Show & Country Fair 2017

This is a new venue for the show and is conveniently located along the N4 bypass just outside Longford town on the lands of the Plunkett family, Sunnyside - Brian and Anna Mai; their son Oliver and his wife Elaine. As always it will ...

28 Jun 2017 at 16:09

Local News

Co Longford Show and Country Fair-showcasing the very best of rural life

And with a revival in agricultural shows across the country in recent years, this year’s Longford show guarantees one of the very best on offer in 2018. The committee’s main aim, we were told, is to get everyone involved this year ...

27 Jun 2018 at 16:00

Farming

Longford Show & Country Fair launch night on Wednesday, June 13

The launch night for the County Longford Show & Country Fair, takes place on Wednesday, June 13 at 8.30pm in the Sin Bin, Longford Rugby Club. All sponsors and supporters are kindly asked to attend and the Secretary, Bernie Whyte ...

08 Jun 2018 at 17:26

Longford Sport

Connacht Gold for Moyne CS, Longford student Emma Brennan

A dominant display of front-running by the second year Moyne Community School student saw her cross the line first of the 72 finishers. Emma also led Moyne CS to second place in the team standings backed up by Martha Miney, ...

23 Feb 2023 at 13:05

Home

Longford's Declan Nerney ‘Stops the World’ in Late Late tribute to Big Tom

Declan said that over the last few days as tributes came pouring in for Big Tom, one of the underpinning questions throughout, was ‘What is this country music all about?’. Reflecting “Analysing and reflecting on it all ...

21 Apr 2018 at 14:04

Features

GALLERY | Wonderful memories from Longford included in new National Museum of Ireland book

‘Happy Days and Hard Times’, a superb collection of visitor memories at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life has just been reissued for print due to its initial success. The book is a series of stories ...

11 Jun 2019 at 02:44

Arts & Entertainment

'We're back' - Tickets for Farmers' Bash country music festival go on sale this week

Tickets to Ireland's largest country music festival are due to go on sale this week. According to Ticketmaster, the Farmers' Bash is returning after a two year gap with a terrific line-up of country music ...

06 Dec 2023 at 11:29

Features

Moydow's Mai Kelly recalls 45 years of the Longford Show

It’s about 30 years or so now since she joined the show’s committee and Mai has remained steadfast and encouraging to all the members in the intervening years. A native of Co Sligo, Mai came to Moydow ...

01 Jul 2017 at 13:00

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