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1 week ago |
longfordleader.ie | Thomas Lyons
A defendant who stole alcohol and trousers has received a two month suspended prison sentence. Patrick Stokes of 80 MacEoin Park, Longford pleaded guilty at the local district court to the theft offences. Sergeant Mark Mahon said on November 14, 2024 the defendant entered Tesco in Longford at 9.10pm and he stole beer valued at €21.50 and trousers valued at €32 and left without paying for the items that were not recovered.
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1 week ago |
longfordleader.ie | Thomas Lyons
The closing date of the public submission deadline for the planned Lough Ree Greenway has been extended. The submissions deadline was moved from last Wednesday (April 2), to the new closing date of April 11. Roscommon County Council, in partnership with Westmeath County Council is in the early stages of developing the greenway linking Athlone, Ballyleague / Lanesborough and Roscommon Town.
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2 weeks ago |
longfordleader.ie | Thomas Lyons
The past is a foreign country. Time goes by in a blink of the eye. Go back ten years, Ireland is voting to reflect a social change, the citizens will make gay marriage legal. Twenty years ago the Provisional Irish Republican Army ended its armed campaign and ordered all units to dump arms. Then dial the clock back 30 years and another referendum on divorce is a litmus test indicating a changing country. Longford in 1995 was a very different place. Patterns of socialising are different.
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2 weeks ago |
longfordleader.ie | Thomas Lyons
In the 1970s the media landscape underwent a dramatic evolution. The emergence of tabloid journalism, televisions in every home, the rise of talk radio, and the proliferation of lifestyle magazines all served a society experiencing increasingly rapid change. There was a sense that the role of the media as a social watchdog was eroding, however the truth was that media impartiality may always have been a myth.
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2 weeks ago |
longfordleader.ie | Thomas Lyons
Longford companies are bracing themselves for a bumpy future as the cost of exporting to America dramatically rose following US government actions. On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day”, with an executive order issued to tariff all imports to the United States at a minimum of ten percent. For 57 nations and entities that tariff comes in at a higher rate ranging from 11% to 50%.
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