Longford is a county in Ireland.
Owners of plane carrying €8.4m worth of cocaine into Longford 'shocked it was on news' Owners of private aircraft risk losing their expensive planes if they do not know who is using them and for what purpose, a senior drug enforcement officer said.
Gallery Like a scene out of Narcos: How Kinahan cartel has been using Longford to fly in millions of drugs Gardaí have seized cocaine worth €8.4m after it was flown into Co Longford in a scenario straight out of crime series Narcos.
Gallery Premium At least the cats catch the rats in the Co Longford estate ‘that God has forgotten’ Rosie McQuillan was born and raised on Colmcille Terrace in Granard, Co Longford. She repeatedly calls it “Beirut” because of the devastation it has seen. Her childhood home is surrounded by empty houses that are slowly decaying into disrepair and dereliction. Many have been vacant for 15 years or more. “It’s like we are in the estate God forgot,” she says.
Revealed: The counties where drivers face longest wait times for NCT Motorists in some parts of the country face waiting until next year to book an appointment online for a National Car Test (NCT) as demand soars.
Premium John Connell Opinion Discovering a degree of timelessness and making new connections in silent solitude of the bog It has been three hours, but maybe four – I’m no longer sure. I’m low to the ground at the level of the worms and insects. There is an unknowable world here, a secret world of cotton and clags of birds and rush. I’m in Clonfin bog, footing turf. It’s the week of my birthday.
Gallery John Montaine, partner of ex-Sinn Féin TD Violet-Anne Wynne, is court no-show as he says he is homeless in Longford The partner of TD Violet-Anne Wynne, John Montaine, was a 'no-show' in court today as he is currently homeless and living in Co Longford.
Gallery Premium Empty buildings signal the slow death of an Irish town Every day, on her way to and from work, Annemarie Ryan Shiner passes some of the 84 empty and unused buildings in Tipperary town. Many have been empty for years.
Revealed: the counties which have a Covid incidence rate of more than 400 per 100,000 COUNTIES Laois, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork, Sligo and Limerick had the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 last week.
Gallery The right to sell turf to neighbours will remain, Fine Gael TDs are reassured Anyone who has the right to cut turf on their land can continue to sell it to their friends and neighbours to burn it, Fine Gael TDs and senators have been told.
Premium Gardaí hopeful of charges as senator’s young family threatened in anti-vax ‘harassment’ case Gardaí are hopeful of pressing charges against an anti-vaccine campaigner who made threats against the young family of a prominent Fine Gael politician.
Premium Why Latin-speaker Liam is as happy as the proverbial pig now the writing is on the wall It’s the talk of the town. E ngraved tablets in faux travertine marble with Latin, Gaelic and Greek insults — old sayings, jokes and curses — adorning an eccentric new thoroughfare in the middle of a normally sleepy Irish town.
‘Zero tolerance’: Domestic violence sentences will double under new laws Ireland will double criminal penalties to 10 years for domestic abusers and double the number of refuge spaces under a €360m plan to try to end domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.
Letters to the Editor Opinion Decade of centenaries masks awkward side of our history Sir — I have so far seen no mention anywhere of any events arranged for Galway to commemorate the centenary of the June 28, 1922 burning of the Ballyconree Boys Protestant Orphanage in Sky Road, Clifden, by the Clifden Battalion of the West Connemara Brigade of the anti-Treaty IRA.
Play Watch: woman arrested after viral video shows customer being restrained in shopping centre in Longford A video has been posted on Facebook showing an altercation at a shopping centre in Longford has gone viral.
Woman on assault charge is allowed by court to fly to Turkey for dental treatment A woman accused of assaulting another female in a department store has been given the green light to fly to Turkey for dental treatment despite being on free legal aid at the taxpayer's expense.
Fully-let retail investment in Longford can deliver 8.45pc annual yield A tranche of retail park investment units in Co Longford is being offered for sale with a €6.75m guide price. Selling agents TWM say this price reflects an attractive net initial yield of 8.45pc off the rent of €627,036 per annum.
Premium Genetic disease threatens Jonatan (12), whose mother stood up to conspiracists A woman who confronted conspiracy theorist Gemma O’Doherty for sharing a photo of her son online as part of an anti-immigration agenda has discovered he suffers from a rare, debilitating illness.
Gardaí arrest nine people over feud related violence in which man was shot and another run over with van Gardaí have arrested nine people in connection to an alleged shooting in Longford town which later resulted in a man being allegedly mown down by a van in a feud related hit and run.
Obituary: Michael Tighe, siege of Jadotville veteran who fought for recognition of fellow soldiers’ courage Army veteran Michael Tighe, who has died at the age of 83 , was one of the last of the Irish soldiers involved in the September 1961 Siege at Jadotville in the Congo, which was the subject of a widely praised Netflix film in 2016 starring Jamie Dornan as company commander, the late Pat Quinlan.
Fine Gael senator Micheál Carrigy apologises to Robbie Keane over comments on his €250,000 FAI salary FINE Gael Senator Micheál Carrigy has apologised to former Irish international Robbie Keane for a statement about his FAI salary that "was inaccurate and false in a number of respects".
Premium Robbie Keane demands apology from Fine Gael after senator’s criticism of his €250,000-a-year FAI salary Robbie Keane’s solicitors sent a legal letter to Fine Gael after the party issued a statement from one of its senators criticising his FAI salary, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
Premium Conor Skehan Opinion Influx of Ukrainian war refugees adds complex challenge to housing issue After years of turmoil, it is ironic how Irish housing supply has finally turned a major corner at exactly the same time as new demands arise that challenge this achievement.
Premium ‘We just wanted to help out in any way we could’ – Longford family on way back from delivering aid for Ukrainians A father and daughter from Longford were arriving home this weekend after travelling across Europe to deliver a massive truckload of humanitarian aid to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
Watchdog investigates ISPCA after governance issues raised The nation’s best-known animal welfare organisation is being investigated by the charities watchdog.
‘Shameful’: Judge hits out at parents of girl over her false confession to vicious knife attack to cover for brother A judge has branded “shameful” the actions of the parents of a teenage girl after she made a false statement confessing to a knife attack by her brother on another sister’s boyfriend.
Drunk driver found with 22 empty beer cans in car after he crashed into wall during high-speed garda chase remanded in custody A father of two who was found with 22 empty beer cans in a car and almost five times over the legal limit after crashing into a wall in the midst of a high speed garda chase has been remanded in custody.
Gallery ‘Our hearts are broken into pieces’ – families say sad farewell to three young people lost in road tragedies Heartbreaking tributes were paid at the funerals of three young people killed in car crashes after a tragic week on Ireland’s roads.
Six dead following weekend of carnage on the roads SIX people lost their lives in a weekend of carnage on the roads which began with a horrific collision where three people died.
Gallery Lives well-lived: A photographer’s ramble down the byways reveals the colourful wealth of Longford life Much of the past few years, especially for the elderly, has been a time of reflection and remembrance, an opportunity to look back on life before all changed utterly.
Gallery Gardaí praise community’s help in helping defuse tensions during Hutch-Kinahan feud A senior investigator has praised the communities of Dublin’s north inner city for helping gardaí get a handle on the “tinderbox” Hutch-Kinahan feud.
