News - Longford

Longford, Granard and Edgeworthstown Fire Service units are tackling the fire on Cloonaugh Bog close to the village.

Longford, Granard and Edgeworthstown Fire Service units are tackling the fire on Cloonaugh Bog close to the village.

Tenders opened this week for the upgrade of the fire detection, alarm system and emergency lighting system at St Joseph's on the Dublin Road.

The Roscommon/Longford Garda Division awards are run in conjunction with the respective county councils.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses, and any road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam recordings from the area at the time are asked to come forward.

In the posts, the group stated that unofficial events could hinder Pieta’s ability to help people with suicidal ideation, who are self-harming, or who have been bereaved by suicide.

Gardaí attended a service station on the Dublin Road in the town at 12.45 early on Sunday morning.

All three women confirmed the incident was unrelated to any feuding and was a personal altercation.

Close to €100,000 has been allocated to festivals in Roscommon, Leitrim and Longford.

Guo Zhong Chen, of 9 Belvedere Terrace, Mullingar was arrested in August 2024 following the fire that swept through Grafton Street in the town two weeks earlier.

The woman was taken to Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar, where she was treated for multiple bruises and injuries to her head, face and body as well as a brain bleed.

Due to the scale of the project, the application is considered strategic infrastructure and thereby passes the local authority planning department and is considered directly by An Bord Pleanála.

Local developer and councillor Tom Crosby has bought two acres in Tarmonbarry, beside Westward's service station.

Gardaí from Edgeworthstown Station were conducting a high-visibility speed checkpoint when they detected a motorist using a mobile phone.