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YESSSSSSSSSS Mullinalaghta that small, rural club in County Longford have beaten Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes to claim the Leinster Senior Football Title on a scoreline of 1-08 to 1-06. What a performance from Mickey Graham's side.
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Furious Longford mother confronts Gemma O'Doherty for using photo of her son online without consent
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What a day for Longford football. 50 years after the county footballers claimed the Leinster title for the first time a Longford club have claimed a provincial title for the first time in their history.. It's just incredible.
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Mickey Quinn lifts the O'Byrne Cup for Longford
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Result Longford 0-16 Meath 0-14. And that's it our boys in blue have done it. First Leinster semi-final in 30yrs.
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Full-time Mullinalaghta 2-15 Eire Og 0-3. And there it is the Longford Champions become the first club from the county to reach the Leinster Senior Club Final. Well done to Mickey Graham and his team.
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‘It’s an abuse that can destroy your soul and sense of safety’: Longford mother Aneta Safiak on the hate crimes she has endured
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This is what it's all about. Small club, big heart and such coverage.
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Result Crokes 0-18 Mullinalaghta 2-7. And the journey ends for Mullinalaghta but what a journey it has been and we are delighted to have been on it with this bunch of lads. They're the pride of not just their parish but of Co. Longford. Thanks for the memories.
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All Ireland Intermediate Champions!!
Longford Slashers 4-11
Mullinahone 2-08
Longford Slashers become the first Longford club to win an All Ireland club final. What an excellent achievement for the town club. Grace Shannon picks up player of the match.
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Result Longford 1-13 Dublin 3-06. Darren Gallagher's free at the death books Longford's place in the O'Byrne Cup Final.
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Result Longford 1-12 Offaly 0-11 - Longford are O'Byrne Cup Champions for 2020. It's the first time they've won the Cup since 2000. Padraic Davis, Paul Barden, Donal Ledwith and Gavin Tonra, all part of that team are on the Longford management team now.
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LONGFORD ARE ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS. It finished in Birr Longford 4-15 Waterford 3-07
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Congrats to Longford's Cian McPhillips - what a performance!
Making his senior international debut, Cian has powered his way into semi-finals of the 800 metres at European Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland this evening
@torun2021
@irishathletics
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Cian Cassidy, who scored both goals, and Diarmuid Sheahan celebrating St Mel's great win over St Peter's Wexford in Leinster Senior C'ship
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MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS.....
All hail Longford's European U20 Champion Cian McPhillips, what an ambassador for Ardagh, Longford and Ireland....
@longford_club
@irishathletics
@LSPLongford
@OfficialLDGAA
@longfordcoco
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Aisling Reynolds named Player of the Match
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Crowds of people have gathered outside Longford Greyhound Stadium to protest greyhound racing this evening
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People of Longford bid farewell to the late Tom O'Brien....he was the epitome of Longford
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One Billboard outside Longford... Longford ladies football star Michelle Farrell from Colmcille in the spotlight in this Lidl promotion. Longford play Clare in the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship Quarter-Final at St Brendan's Park in Birr on Sunday next, June 26th, 2pm
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Longford family thrilled to meet Game of Thrones star Thomas Brodie-Sangster
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Outstanding Longford athlete Cian McPhillips wins the Gold medal in the 1500m final at the European U-20 Championships in Tailinn, Estonia this Saturday. What a brilliant performance by the class act from Ardagh . . . European champion . . .
💥GOLD for Cian McPhillips (Longford AC) in the 1500m!!!🇮🇪🤩
WOW!!!
⏱️3:46.55
#Tallinn2021
#WhatADay
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WATCH: History made as Uruemu Adejinmi becomes first African woman Longford county councillor
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RESULT We will have new Longford Senior Football Champions. Colmcille 1-14 Mullinalaghta 1-13. A fantastic performance from Colmcille who battled hard throughout. Mullinalaghta were terrific champions.
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The joy, pleasure and pride Mullinalaghta brought to their families and their parish was felt and enjoyed throughout Longford and across the country and that will never be forgotten.
#gaa
#thetoughest
#Longford
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North Longford and Dromard saddened by death of esteemed football coach and respected Moyne CS teacher Peter Crossan
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Some Sham for one Sham: Genial Tom O’Brien remembered as one of Longford’s favourite sons
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Some Sham for one Sham: Genial Tom O’Brien remembered as one of Longford’s favourite sons
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Iconic Longford bar Edward J Valentine's closing in response to coronavirus crisis
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Longford defender Barry Gilleran retires from inter-county football
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Longford has a TD !
#GE2020
#LDWH
Well done to my old St Mel’s classmate Joe Flaherty elected one Longford. Sound fellow. 👍 — Ronan McGreevy (
@RMcGreevy1301
) February 10, 2020 via 24liveblog
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LONGFORD ARE ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS!! Full-time score from Ballinalsoe in the LGFA All-Ireland Minor B Final Longford 2-09 Roscommon 2-05. Double delight for the girls in blue and gold after the U16 success recently
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All Ireland Semi
Longford Slashers 1-11
Charlestown 0-10
FT
Longford Slashers seal a 4 point victory to become the first Longford team to reach an All Ireland ladies final. The decider will be the First Ladies club final to be played in Croker on Saturday 10th of December.
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Result: North Leinster Schools Under 14 'A' Football Championship Final: St Mel's College 3-13 St Mary's Edenderry 3-3 ft Superb display
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A drilling company has confirmed that they have found gold in the hills of Co Cavan - We wish them the very best of luck trying to get it out of the county!
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Proud of that son.....
@OfficialLDGAA
stalwart Dermot Brady with his dad Donal after today's victory over Down
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Were you among the drenched Longford fans in Pearse Park in 2004 for Stephen Lynch's goal that rocked The Kingdom?
@OfficialLDGAA
#GAA
@KerryGaaBanter
@kerrygaatv1
@gaakerry
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Longford's Begley's Bar on shortlist for top award
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The victorious Longford U16 girls team. All-Ireland C Champions.
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Long serving St Mel's College Longford principal to step down as successor is announced
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First FAI camp for autistic children piloted in Longford hailed a success
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Result - And it's over. What a win and what a performance from our boys in blue. Full-time Longford 2-13 Monaghan 1-13
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Result Longford 1-13 Tipperary 0-9 - Longford retain their Division 3 status for 2022.
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A dream come true as Longford swimmer Darragh Greene heading to Tokyo Olympic Games with Team Ireland
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Joe Flaherty and co practicing their celebrations as we await the final result
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Result Longford 1-11 Carlow 0-9 - What a win!! Longford are top of Division 3. They battled hard, fought hard and scored some excellent scores.
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Leinster Schools Senior Football Championship Round 1 Result: St Mel's College 2-12 St Peter's Wexford 0-13 ft Cian Cassidy scored the goals
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John Connell has won the Irish Book Awards non fiction prize for The Cow Book at the An Post Irish Book Awards tonight!
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Late Late Show appearance for Mullinalaghta St Columba's football team
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'Everyone is just devastated'- Dromard community in mourning at tragic passing of Cian Gray (19)
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All Ireland Masters Football Shield Final Result: Longford/Leitrim 1-16 Laois 2-9 ft in Ballyleague
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Result Longford 3-11 Westmeath 2-11 - what a result for Longford. Totally deserved win.
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‘Sleep tight my angel’- heartbroken father pays glowing tribute to Ardagh's Leah Sheridan
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Longford / Westmeath TD hosting home ownership webinar
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Leinster Schools Senior A Football Championship Quarter-Final Result: St Mel's College 2-19 Offaly Secondary Schools 2-5
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Result Mercy Ballymahon are All-Ireland PPS Senior Girls 'C' Champions. They have defeated St, Mary's from Midleton in Cork on a scoreline of 4-12 to 1-09. Sarah Dillon scored 1-09 while Clodagh Lohan scored 3-0.
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St Mel's College Longford pictured following their 4-14 to 2-8 win over Knockbeg College in the Leinster Schools 2nd Year 'A' Football Championship Final at O'Moore Park in Portlaoise. Congratulations lads
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'Hare today gone tomorrow'! Lovely photo of a march hare leaping through the snow in Crieve, Killoe, Co Longford this morning.
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70+1mins That was no more than Daniel Mimnagh deserved. For this journalist he has been the best player in Longford in 2019 for club and county.
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Reeling in the Years...
Were you in Pearse Park in 2010 when Glenn Ryan's Longford stunned the GAA world with a super 1-12 to 0-14 All-Ireland SFC qualifier victory over John O'Mahony's Mayo?
Check out today's Longford Leader for special feature
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Result Longford 2-16 Monaghan 1-17. What a win for Longford. Came from nine points down to claim a fantastic win.
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Remembering Tom O'Brien. Gone but not forgotten! Best of luck to the cast and crew in the Longford Variety Group production of 'Are Ya Wide Sham' which opens tonight Wednesday in Backstage Theatre and runs until Saturday...
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WATCH | Aneta Safiak tells Channel 4 News: 'I have my loved one buried in the Irish soil in Longford and this is where I belong'
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‘We are indebted to our neighbour’: Longford farmer speaks out on dangers of slurry fumes
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Well done and huge congratulations to Longford Rose Grace Kemple.
An exemplary Ambassador for her county and the midwifery profession.
#roseoftralee
#RoseOfTralee2023
#Longford
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Result Ladies All-Ireland U16B semi-final Longford 5-08 Tyrone 3-13. Longford goalscorers Kamille Burke, Molly Mulvihill, Grace Shannon, Kate Shannon, Melissa O'Kane (pen). Longford will play Waterford in the final.
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Ellen Murphy from Dromard in north Longford wins her first cap for the Ireland senior women's rugby team against England in Twickenham
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Minor Football Championship Final Result: Longford Slashers 1-12 St Colmcille/St Francis 2-8 ft Tadhg McNevin with last gasp winning point
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Massive achievement as second Longford swimmer heading to Olympic Games in Tokyo
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Leinster Schools Senior A Football Championship knockout stage preliminary round result: St Mel's College 2-20 Athlone Community College 1-10. St Mel's now play Clane CS in the quarter-final in mid January
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All over at O' Moore Park: St Mel's College 2-11 Good Counsel New Ross 1-5. Result: St Mel's Leinster U-14 'A' football champions. Well done
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Full-time Longford 3-15 Kildare 1-21. What a game..Replay in Tullamore next Sunday 2nd March at 3pm. What a performance by the boys in blue. I can just about breathe now.
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Super achievement!
Darragh Greene smashes Irish record and secures Olympic qualification time
#WorldChampionships2019
!! 🇰🇷
@Gwangju2019_
@swimireland
#Gwangju2019
#FINAGwangju2019
#teamarenaIRL
🇮🇪☘️
@GreeneDarragh
@LongfordSC
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Longford's Darragh Greene, record breaker in winning the senior 200m Breaststroke at the Irish Open Swimming Championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin
What a special moment this was last night!
@GreeneDarragh
is presented with his 200m Breaststroke Record Cert by
@planetbreezo
who had held the previous record for 11 years!
#IOSC19
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North Leinster Schools Junior (U-16) 'A' Football Final Result: St Mel's College 2-10 Ashbourne Community School (Meath) 0-10. St Mel's march on in their bid to win the overall provincial U-16 'A' title
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Result WE ARE BACK Shelbourne 0-1 Longford TOwn
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Allianz National Football League Round 7 in Portlaoise. Full Time.
@OfficialLDGAA
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@CLGLaois
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Longford and Louth win so Longford remain in Division 3 for the 7th successive season. Laois and Wicklow are demoted. Great win.
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#BreakingNews
Congratulations to Longford Leader journalist
@LiamCosgrove1
who was chosen as overall winner in the News Story of the Year category in the 5th annual Local Ireland / National Lottery media awards
@Local_Ireland
@NationalLottery
A prestigious accolade. Congrats Liam
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Padraic Davis was tonight ratified as the Longford Senior Football manager. Paul Barden and Donal Ledwith form part of his backroom team.
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Watch | Maura and Curtis leave Love Island villa for a hot date as one couple will be dumped tonight
#LoveIsland
#MauraHiggins
#Curtis
@MauraHiggins
@LoveIsland
#Ballymahon
#Longford
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Longford man brands garda ‘an absolute pig’ before telling judge ‘tiocfaidh ár lá’
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REPORT | Longford Town save the best for last and gain promotion with powerful performance
@LongfordTownFC
@SSEAirtricityLg
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Sensational run sees Longford's Cian McPhillips smash national junior record in one of the fastest indoor 800m in Irish athletics history
@longfordac
@irishathletics
@RayPFlynn
@LSPLongford
@sportireland
@moynecs
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15 year old Kate Shannon named Player of the Match. The youngster scored 2-4 (1f). An exceptional talent.
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LISTEN | Funeral Mass of late Peter Kelly hears he served the people of Longford with great commitment and sincerity
* Fr Brendan O'Sullivan: 'Peter Kelly always wanted to leave his community a better place than he found it'
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Sean Connolly is heading for Aughnacliffe.
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Darragh Greene finishes in 7th place in the last of the five heats in the 200m Breaststroke in a time of 2:11.09 in missing out on a place in the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. Darragh ended up 23rd overall in the world in the 200m Breaststroke,still a brilliant achievement
#Swimming
Longford's Darragh Greene closes out his first Olympic Games with⏱️ 2:11.09 and 7th place in his heat in 200m Breaststroke.
He finishes 23rd overall, adding to his 29th in 100m Breaststroke.
#TeamIreland
#Tokyo2020
@swimireland
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Result Ballymore 2-19 Kilmore 1-11. Ballymore are Leinster Junior Club Champions. What a performance from Sean Meenaghan's girls. Terrific. Congratulations. Well deserved.
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Against all 3 Ulster teams Longford have had 3 referees from Ulster. Two of those games ended in controversial circumstances.
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Flashback | Sky News correspondent Enda Brady hailed midfield magic of late Conor Connelly and Martin Flanagan in St Mel's College, Longford 1994 Leinster Final triumph
@StMels
@jonnyfallon
@SkyEnda
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Longford athletics star Cian McPhillips announces himself on world stage by winning Invitational mile at Millrose Games in New York
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60mins 4 additional minutes to be played here. All together now Our father who art in heaven............
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Peter Hanley Motors Senior Football Championship Semi Final. Full Time.
Mostrim 2-10
Colmcille 0-10
Mostrim advance to the county final for the first time since 1992, fantastic achievement for them. Two goals by Tiernan Hussey proving the difference.
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Former Sean Connolly's and Longford player Gerry Fox has been appointed the manager of the New York senior football squad who will take on Galway in the Connacht SF Championship first round clash at Gaelic Park next May. Gerry was a New York selector in 2018 and is now the boss
“The New York county board is delighted to have Gerry Fox taking the role as county manager. We look forward to working with him. We have no doubt in his capabilities and we wish him, & the county panel much success as they prepare for Galway in May”.
#NewYorkAbu
#GAA
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Longford Elections: Reynolds calls for relaxation of planning regulations
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