The company is currently meeting with employees from West Offaly and Longford's Lough Ree power stations to inform them of the plan for the closure of the stations.

A family who moved in to a vacant council house without permission have been told to leave by the High Court. 

One of the UK’s biggest holiday firms is looking to corner the market on Irish staycations, by opening a multi-million euro holiday complex in the Midlands.

MORE than 1,300 new jobs promised for Longford two years ago are now unlikely to come on stream before 2007, if at all.