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Gardai have seized drugs worth €200,000 in Co Longford.

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.

The National Commercial Vacancy Report for Q2 2018, carried out by GeoDirectory, claims that commercial vacancy rates nationally have fallen to 13.1%. This is a drop of 0.4% from the same period last year.

Your lunchtime headlines

Gardaí in Co Longford are investigating an incident which saw several shots fired at a house in Edgeworthstown.

Cannabis and cocaine thought to be worth €120,000 has been seized in Longford.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a crash in Co. Longford which left a man in a critical condition in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Two Cork projects have won national heritage awards — a group from Castlemartyr that remembers the work of Cork-born White House landscapist, John Saul; and the Cork LGBT Archive.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) issued 12 Closure Orders and one Prohibition Order on food businesses in July.

A man in his 30s has died after the car he was driving was in a collision with a van in Co Longford this morning.

Five things we learned from the weekend...

When Cathal Mullane moved out of Limerick he had an idea he’d play on with his club back home, Kileedy. A couple of hours’ drive home for games? No problem.

A man is still being questioned by Gardaí following the abduction of a woman in her 20's in Longford at the weekend.

A 34-year-old man will appear in court in Longford this morning, charged in connection with an aggravated burglary in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Three people were killed in accidents on the roads in counties Cork, Longford, and Mayo over the weekend.

More than 700 jobs are to be created in Dublin, Kildare, Galway, and Longford as the result of four separate announcements yesterday.

A pet food company founded by the late Albert Reynolds is to create 70 jobs.

Long before entering the political stage, Albert Reynolds had already forged a successful career by changing the Irish showbusiness landscape.

Gardaí have appealed for the public's help in finding 50-year-old Anthony Carberry, who has been missing for more than a week.

The Army bomb disposal team has carried out a controlled explosion on a home-made bomb found in County Longford.

A 10-year-old girl and three women have been killed in a car crash in Co Westmeath.

A man is in hospital following a burglary in Co Longford.

Shoplifting is reaching epidemic levels and the system is “an absolute joke” because there is no effective deterrent, according to a district court judge.

A man is due to appear in court in Westmeath this morning charged in connection with a drugs and gun seizure.

A settlement has been reached in the case of a young girl suing her parents after surviving a fatal car crash in Co Longford.

A schoolgirl seriously injured in a car accident in which her sister and a friend died has launched an action for damages in the High Court against her parents.

A young girl who survived a fatal car crash in Longford is suing her father who owned the BMW and her mother who was subsequently jailed for dangerous driving.

They look lovely and last so long — well looked after dairy show cows come up shining year after year, with top winners from 2010 taking the red rosettes again last Sunday at Tullamore Show.

Three men remain in Garda custody in Longford this morning, in connection with an incident which saw a Garda Patrol car and two private vehicles rammed yesterday evening.

Gardaí in Longford have arrested three men after a Garda patrol car and two private vehicles were rammed on the N4 this evening.

Two All-Ireland winners patrol the sidelines fortomorrow’s Bord Gáis Energy Ladies NFL Division Fourfinal at O’Connor Park,Tullamore.

A Longford man jailed for five years for an unprovoked attack on an ex-soldier, who died shortly afterwards, has succeeded in having nine months of his sentence suspended on appeal.

Irish Rail has is to increase its car-parking charges at train stations across the country, it was announced today.

Gardaí are appealing for information after a young woman was seriously assaulted in Co Longford.

A LIMERICK man is in a serious, but stable, condition in hospital in Australia following a road collision that claimed the life of his US girlfriend.

Gardaí in Co Longford are investigating a post office robbery in Edgeworthstown this afternoon.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has apologised on behalf of the state to the family of Noel Keegan, who died after being assaulted by a man wrongfully released from prison.

The Minister for Justice has today apologised to the family of Noel Keegan who died after he was attacked by a man unlawfully at large.