Budget

Fema Flanagan, Director of Finance, said allocations can remain interchangeable between subservices throughout the course of the year. File photo/Pixabay

North Longford area Municipal District reveals spending plans for 2027

Fema Flanagan, Director of Finance at Longford County Council, said there is multi-annual funding certainty for Granard MD into the future.

Funding for county Longford municipal districts will rise to €150,000

Funding of €7m is being allocated by the EU and Government to transform Longford's Connolly Barracks into vibrant community hub

Longford Council is short €1.3m for 2027 with THRIVE 'biggest issue'

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Childminder tax relief can help expand childcare options says local TD

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Budget changes will help families keep more of what they earn says TD

Longford disability rights advocate James Cawley

Longford man set to meet ministers over disability payment exclusion

Kevin Callinan

Strike ‘remains available’, unions say as pay talks begin

Industrial strike

Taoiseach hopes ‘behind-the-scenes work’ results in talks with unions

Longford disability rights advocate James Cawley

Longford disability advocate challenges Budget 2027 exclusion

Sinn Féin TD for Longford-Westmeath, Sorca Clarke has called on TDs from all parties to back Sinn Féin’s motion to deliver a real meaningful cut in the price of home heating oil to put workers and families first this winter

Longford Westmeath TD says home heating oil cut already wiped out

Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Taoiseach urges unions for further talks on eve of public sector strike

Niamh Donlon, EBS Business Development Manager, with Liam and Roisín Cosgrove at the 2025 Longford Leader Build and Renovate Expo. Niamh will also be on hand to meet homebuyers at this weekend's Build and Renovate Expo in the Longford Arms Hotel

EBS Longford to meet homebuyers at Build and Renovate Expo

Irish Budget 2027

Government must ‘put hands in pockets’ for culture card – Patrick O’Donovan

The Fine Gael team held a post-Budget canvass with commuters on Wednesday morning at Stephen's Green in Dublin

McEntee defends Budget spending plans despite sharp criticism from watchdog

Longford Westmeath Fine Gael TD Micheál Carrigy: 'The Irish economy is strong, and we need to make sure people feel that in their everyday lives'

Longford TD insists Budget 2027 will build more homes for young people

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Finance Minister Simon Harris with the Budget 2027

Income tax changes and social welfare increases in Budget

Simon Harris outside Leinster House

Government using ‘high-risk’ receipts to fund tax and spending plans – watchdog
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council said the Government should be saving more of the risky receipts.
Cate McCurry, Press Association

Dan Dooley, the chairman of the Rathcormac Men's Shed

Men’s sheds awaiting details of support funding

Farmer Michael O'Dwyer from Doora, Co Clare with cows in the background

Mixed reaction to Budget from farmers

University of Limerick graduate Eva McCormack holding a sign

Failure to abolish student contribution fee ‘devastating’ for families

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Finance Minister Simon Harris on Budget day

Opposition parties accuse Government of ‘lack of honesty’ in Budget 2027

Irish Budget 2027

Nothing in the Budget to bring me back to the market – former landlord

Cork renter Christina Collins sat at a table

Budget 2027 rent tax credit increase ‘a drop in the ocean’, according to renter

Tomàs Murphy at his home

Budget does not go far enough in helping disabled, says advocate

Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty

Budget a test that Government has ‘failed’ – Doherty

Irish Budget 2027

Irish Government announces ‘optimistic’ Budget 2027

Tanaiste Simon Harris

Pension increases and cuts to childcare costs likely to feature in Budget 2027

Tánaiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris

Culture card ‘not dead in the water’, Tánaiste insists
The Government leadership met to finalise the Budget.
Cillian Sherlock, Press Association

Micheal Martin speaking to the media

Taoiseach signals pause on home heating oil carbon tax increase

Simon Harris and Jack Chambers speaking to the media

Corporation tax take in September soars as companies pay bills early

There were fuel price protests in Longford and across the country over six days last April

Fuel protests loom after public meeting as Budget pressure soars

A woman changing bedclothes in a home

Mental health housing charity calls for ‘essential’ funding

Alone annual report

At-risk older people cutting down on food and heating, Alone says

Charity pleads for Budget funding as homelessness numbers continue to spiral

A young child playing with toys next to a window

Coalition considering hike in tax relief for childminders

James Browne and Ber Grogan holding Simon Week booklets

‘Meaningful’ action on homelessness urged in Simon Communities fundraising push

Simon Harris

Tánaiste questions fuel excise increase in November

Taoiseach Micheal Martin speaks to journalists

Rent tax credit will be increased, Taoiseach says

Drinks being poured

Rising costs threatening to make many hospitality businesses unviable – research

Taoiseach Michael Martin

Taoiseach signals cut to tax on home heating oil in Budget

Pictured at the Budget 2027 town hall event for Laois, Offaly, Longford and Westmeath, hosted by Family Carers Ireland at the Tullamore Court Hotel on 10 September, from left to right, are Niamh Lynch, Support Manager Laois/Offaly, Family Carers Ireland; Deputy Brian Stanley, Independent; Angela Locke Reilly, Support Manager Longford/Westmeath, Family Carers Ireland; Deputy Carol Nolan, Independent; and Tanya Clear, Information Officer Laois/Offaly, Family Carers Ireland.

Family Carers Ireland host Longford-Midlands event ahead of Budget '27

Rent tax credit increase ‘looked upon positively’, Tánaiste says

Simon Harris

‘Argument’ for expanding fuel allowance, Tánaiste says

Simon Harris speaks at the Fine Gael think-in

Income tax changes worth more than a few hundred euro, Tánaiste says

Fianna Fail think in – Tullamore

Different perspectives on stamp duty ‘healthy’, Jack Chambers says

Bord Gáis Energy announced an increase to its prices

Bord Gáis Energy announces gas and electricity price increases from October

Tánaiste Simon Harris

Tánaiste pushes back on Fianna Fáil stamp duty proposal

Jack Chambers

Chambers cautions ‘honest’ and ‘modest’ expectations for Budget

Taoiseach Michael Martin speaking to the media outside Government Buildings, Dublin

Taoiseach does not rule out cutting excise on alcohol

Euro notes sit inside a wallet

State-backed investment account could be made available to children in future

Simon Harris

Tánaiste says Government does not ‘ignore’ advice of State’s spending watchdog

Rolls of euro banknotes

Fiscal watchdog warns of ‘larger than appropriate’ Budget package

A view of fuel pumps at a service station in Dublin

Unwinding of fuel excise cuts postponed

Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers and Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe speaking to the media outside Government Buildings, Dublin

Budget must prioritise fully public-funded childcare – National Women’s Council

Tánaiste Simon Harris

Reductions in income tax and childcare costs ‘priorities’, Tánaiste says

Anglo Irish court case

Government repeating past policy mistakes, watchdog warns

Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly

Mullooly to highlight Brazilian meat safety issues with FSA bosses

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