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'No doubt' €15m funding for tourism boost in rural Ireland will attract visitors - Humphreys

Fifteen million euro in funding to boost tourism on Coillte lands has been announced. The major investment was announced today (Friday May 13) by the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, as part of a new five year ...

13 May 2022 at 11:46

National News

New social enterprise launched to help revive rural towns and villages across Ireland

A newly launched social enterprise, Rethinking Rural Ireland (RRI), is looking to help revive rural towns and villages across Ireland in 2021. Launched in October 2020 and awarded best business pitch at the UCD Innovation Academy, RRI ...

09 Feb 2021 at 20:57

National News

Minister allocates over 170k to campaign to get more rural women involved in local politics

Minister for Planning and Local Government, Alan Dillon TD has today announced funding of €171,162 for the Longford-based See Her Elected (SHE) campaign, in support of their work in supporting and encouraging the participation of ...

10 Oct 2024 at 08:44

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Department issue 'Condition Orange High Fire risk' notice

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have issued a Condition Orange High Fire Risk notice for the entire country. The notice comes into effect from 12pm Monday, May 13, and will remain in place until 12pm on ...

13 May 2019 at 15:25

Elections

Election Profiles: Healy Eames seeking to secure best deal for rural Ireland

Fidelma Healy Eames is to contest the upcoming European elections as an Independent candidate. Acting principal in a primary school in Galway, Fidelma hails from a farming background and was raised on a dairy farm in Moylough. ...

03 May 2019 at 18:00

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Longford Leader Columnist Mattie Fox: Powers that be have no interest in preserving rural Ireland

Rural Post Offices are now being viewed as revenue centres. This, essentially, is what the government is really saying in its wide ranging action to close the Post Office structure across Ireland. Except Dublin of course. ...

08 Sept 2018 at 16:00

National News

OPINION: 'I bought an air to water house but here's why I wish it had a fire'

I remember summer Saturday mornings well when I was a child; I'd hear my father in the kitchen early on the phone talking to the 'turf man'. He was getting directions to a plot; 'pass the row of hedges, through the ...

06 Feb 2025 at 10:46

Local News

Government and EU must end attacks on Irish rural post office network - Carthy

Speaking from Brussels Carthy, who is a member of the European Parliament’s Agriculture & Rural Development committee, said that the Government and the EU must end their attacks on Ireland's rural post office ...

11 Mar 2017 at 18:31

Features

Longford Leader Opinion: Growing up in rural Ireland

I often think of growing up in Ireland long ago, and how naive we really were. Still, that made for the celebration of innocence in a way that couldn't be imagined, or indeed happen, in these modern times. ...

15 May 2017 at 12:00

Farming

Granard based Kiernan Milling announced as main sponsors for Longford ploughing 2020

Longford Ploughing are delighted to announce Kiernan Milling as the main sponsor of the 2020 Spring Equinox Ploughing Championship. Blending animal feeds for over 40 years now, Kiernan Milling has grown ...

14 Feb 2020 at 11:00

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Broadband Plan a ‘new dawn’ for rural Longford

The National Broadband Plan is the Government’s plan to roll-out high speed broadband to the 1.1 million people living and working in the nearly 540,000 premises nationally, including 100,000 ...

19 Nov 2019 at 15:48

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Longford Leader columnist Mattie Fox: Even the smallest, quietest village has its problems with drugs trading

When speaking recently, since the election began, Leo Varadkar said that “Ireland is a safe place” effectively claiming that the drug pushers are not taking over. Immediately I heard people ...

26 Jan 2020 at 14:00

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