The shots were reportedly fired at a residence in Corboy, Edgeworthstown, on February 4 around 10.30pm and also yesterday afternoon around 12.10pm.

Drugs with an estimated street value of €72,000 were recovered during the search of an apartment in Granard yesterday.

Abandoned puppies, a goose entangled on discarded fishing line, runaway rabbits, dozens of homeless kittens and a lurcher dog in a shocking condition were among the rescue missions conducted by the ISPCA over the past month.

The warning comes as gardaí in Granard, Co. Longford, are investigating an organised crime gang involved in the international sale and distribution of stolen machinery and vehicle parts.

A car dealer alleged to be giving the Revenue the "runaround" in its efforts to recover under a €4.95m tax judgment obtained ten years ago has received a two month suspended sentence for civil contempt.

Car dealer John Alex Kane is alleged to be giving the Revenue the “runaround” in its efforts to recover a €4.95m judgement obtained 10years ago.

A farmer has been jailed until next week pending a final decision by the president of the High Court on what sanction should be applied for contempt of his undertakings intended to prevent interference with a receiver’s efforts to sell lands in Co. Longford.

Two brothers are facing a possible return to jail next week over allegations of contempt of court orders not to interfere with a Revenue appointed receiver's efforts to sell lands and property as part of efforts to recover a €4.97m judgment against one of them over unpaid taxes.

More gardaí patrolling the streets of Longford are the only long term solution to the ongoing feud between two factions in the town according to a member of the Garda Representative Association (GRA).

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

Both incidents occurred in the Edgeworthstown area between last night and the early hours of this morning.

A car dealer being pursued by the Revenue for 10 years in a bid to recover a €4.97m judgment has been warned he is at “grave risk” of being jailed a third time for contempt over allegedly still giving the Revenue the “runaround”.

It has been a night of tragedy on the roads, with two pedestrians dying in separate incidents.

Frontline supervisors have called on Garda management to “fully investigate” any online threats against a detective sergeant who discharged his firearm during a tense incident in Longford last Monday.

Gardaí in Granard are calling for witnesses to a shooting incident in Co Longford.

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Here's your morning bulletin.

Gardaí and GSOC are both investigating after a man was injured, and a dog killed, during an incident in Granard in County Longford this evening.

The field, the plaster face of the Virgin Mary, the labouring, dying 15-year-old, the dead baby…

‘Who knows where the thread is going to unravel?’ asks O’Reilly

Can we name any medical/social scandal that has affected only the male gender?

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Latest: Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with the discovery of a cannabis grow house in Longford.

Gardaí in Granard, Co Longford are appealing for witnesses following a fatal traffic collision.

Irene Kelleher is taking her fictional play, Mary and Me, to the Edinburgh Fringe. It was inspired by the tragic events in Granard in 1984, writes Colette Sheridan

Lir Analytical took on major rivals as it built market share for its bio-security products, writes Trish Dromey.

A car dealer has been jailed by the High Court a second time for contempt after it found he is continuing to give the Revenue the “runaround” in its efforts to execute a €4.97m judgment obtained nine years ago against him over unpaid taxes.

Five things we learned from the weekend...

ANYONE with a trace of humanity must feel a mixture of shock, horror, and sadness at the discovery of the body of a newborn girl at a recycling plant in Co Wicklow.

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Fourteen vehicles have been seized during an operation in the midlands.

Tommy Barker discovers a little slice of America’s Cape Cod/New England style down west in County Cork.

THE gardaí are to be praised for their sensitive handling of the search to identify abandoned baby Maria.

A man has been acquitted of handling 1,182 stolen pigs following a direction by the judge that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with the trial.

A Garda car was rammed three times and officers had to avoid a petrol drum that exploded after being thrown onto the road during a high-speed chase through the midlands.

The funeral is taking place of Barney McGinley, who was killed as part of an alleged Traveller feud in Co. Fermanagh last week.

For this week’s business Q&A, Kehlan talks with Adrian Kelly from AirSynergy about his business which is based upon green energy and intellectual property.

Four men are due in court in Longford at 10.30am this morning charged in connection with a drug seizure in Granard yesterday.

Ulster Bank has confirmed that it is to close a further seven Irish branches, including three in Dublin and one in Cork City.

The tragic death 30 years ago of Irish schoolgirl Ann Lovett is the subject of a play to be staged in London next month.

SHE was a darling daughter, her death notice said, and a happy, intelligent, interested girl, according to her school.

SEVERAL days after 15-year-old Ann Lovett died in hospital, just hours after giving birth to a 6½lb baby boy found dead beside a Co Longford grotto, an anonymous caller phoned the Sunday Tribune newspaper to explain what had happened on that cold and dark winter afternoon on Jan 31, 1984 outside Granard.

I was not going to contact you with reference to Anne Lovett’s 30th anniversary, but after watching Philomena on the Late late Show‘, I feel that I must comment.

Some strands of history are inescapable, they live with us forever — and so they should. Just as we can’t choose our family we cannot choose our past, it is our undeniable, irreversible path to our present.

I was moved to write this when I read Brian Meaney’s recent letter (Jan 17) about the case of Ann Lovett, her child and his New Year’s resolution to visit their grave on the 30th anniversary of their deaths.

On the 31st of January this year, thirty years will have passed since a 15-year-old girl called Anne Lovett was found semi-conscious, bleeding and suffering from exposure in a Grotto to the Virgin Mary in the small town of Granard in County Longford.

Gardaí are still searching for one of a three-man burglary team that rammed two Garda cars during a 100km high-speed car chase.

A man has appeared in court charged with handling almost 1,200 stolen pigs. The animals, piglets and adult pigs, are alleged to have been stolen from a Westmeath pig farm in 2012.