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When I am on the land I like to dream of other worlds and other places. Some are real and some are imagined. On my long walk up to see our heifers in the upper ...

John Connell is an author, farmer and runner. As he runs around County Longford he is reminded of the history of the area through the families who have lived there for centuries.

Longfords Running Book author John Connell to appear on Nationwide Reporter: );  ); Local author of popular The Cow Book and recently released The Running Book, John Connell, is set to appear on RTE’s Nationwide this Friday night. John has been filming throughout the county with Lanesboro man and RTE presenter Ciarán Mullooly. He will be discussing his latest release, The Running Book, on Friday night’s show. Nationwide airs on RTE One this Friday night at 7pm. If you have a story or wan...

Francis A. Kennedy was 95 when he died of COVID-19 on May 10 at Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, Buffalo, New York. The father of 13, 12 of whom survived him,

Courtesy A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, PublicAffairs, 288 pages. $28. Many volumes have been written about the back-to-the-landers who flooded into Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, chronicling their colorful experiments with communes and other new forms of community. Even as we celebrate our ...

Longford author nearing target in Christmas fundraiser Reporter:  ); This Christmas as we all go about shopping and getting ready for Christmas, local author John Connell is asking people not to buy his book, but to instead make a small donation to his fundraiser to buy a cow for a village in Africa. With the help of more than 70 online donors, John has so far managed to raise almost €1,500 of his €1,900 goal at the time of going to print. “Bothar are a wonderful Irish charity and prov...

Deaths in Longford - Monday, December 21, 2020 Reporter: ); John Connell, Fardromin, Ballinamuck, Longford The death occurred, at Mullingar General Hospital, surrounded by his family, on Saturday, December 19 of John Connell, Fardromin, Ballinamuck, Longford. He is reunited with his beloved wife Maureen. John will be forever missed by his loving family, sons Eamon, Gerard, Dessie, Seamus, Noel and Nigel, daughters Sheila (Corrigan), Deidre (Harte), Ann (Regan) and Marie, sons-in-law, daughters...

KING John’s Morris Men based in Southampton have put online what is probably the first virtual performance of a traditional entertainment that goes back hundreds of years. This is a mummers’ play, which can now be viewed on YouTube. It marks the 40th year in which the group have put on a Christmas performance and features standard characters with a traditional script, but laced with topical references. As in previous years, there will be collection for a local charity, this time via a...

Deaths in Longford - Sunday, December 20, 2020 - evening Reporter: ); John Connell, Fardromin, Ballinamuck, Longford The death occurred, at Mullingar General Hospital, surrounded by his family, on Saturday, December 19 of John Connell, Fardromin, Ballinamuck, Longford. He is reunited with his beloved wife Maureen. John will be forever missed by his loving family, sons Eamon, Gerard, Dessie, Seamus, Noel and Nigel, daughters Sheila (Corrigan), Deidre (Harte), Ann (Regan) and Marie, sons-in-law,...

Travis McAfee Father Joshua Passo, FSSP, elevates the Eucharist during the Dec. 12 Mass dedicating Our Lady of Sorrows as a new parish for the Diocese of Little Rock in Springdale. Travis McAfee Father Joshua Passo, FSSP, elevates the Eucharist during the Dec. 12 Mass dedicating Our Lady of Sorrows as a new parish for the Diocese of Little Rock in Springdale. SPRINGDALE – The Latin Mass community in Northwest Arkansas now has its own home. The newly established parish of Our Lady of Sorrows...