The sport with most support in County Longford is Gaelic football.

The headquarters of the Longford Gaelic Athletic Association is located in Pearse Park in Longford Town, with a ground capacity of around 11, 000.

Longford County boasted arguably the best Gaelic football team which did not win the Sam Maguire Cup in 1968.

* Longford Town F. C., an association football team based in Longford, Ireland

The major boys ' secondary school in Longford town, St. Mel's College, also has a long tradition in secondary schools ' football ( known as Colleges A ), winning 29 Leinster and 4 All-Ireland titles ( in the Hogan Cup ).

Longford Town football club was founded in 1924 and was elected to the League of Ireland in 1984.

The first Longford town football club team to play in the League of Ireland featured Jimmy Savage, Zac Hackett and Liam Madden.

The Longford Town football club ground is at Flancare Park, in the townland of Mullolagher, to the west of the town, on the Strokestown Road.

The Longford Town football club has had notable success in recent years, twice winning the FAI Cup, in 2003 and 2004, and competing in the UEFA Cup as a result against Bulgarian, Liechtenstein and Welsh opposition, though without success.

The club was relegated at the end of the 2008 season but swiftly bounced back to the top flight of Irish football at the first time of asking by securing their second First Division title this time under the management of Martin Russell, being promoted after a 5-0 away win over Athlone Town in the penultimate match of the season on 30 October 2009, ahead of such exalted opponents as former Premier division teams Shelbourne and Longford Town.

The minor ( under-18 ) Longford county team won the Leinster title in 2002, and recently in 2010, and their teams at under-21 level have reached several Leinster finals over the last few years ( including 2006 ).

The main local GAA Club in Longford is Longford Slashers, based in Longford town, who have won more Senior County Championships than any other team in the county with their most recent success coming in 2010.

Longford Hurling team struggle to compete with the bigger counties as they only have 3 Hurling teams in the county, Slashers, Wolfe Tones and Clonguish.

The Senior Sunday team currently play in the Leinster Senior League Division 1, and played Longford Town in the 2007 FAI Ford Cup 2nd Round.

Barry Slattery moved to the St. Patricks Athletic Under-21 team while John Reilly departed for Longford Town.

The club signed former Ghanaian underage international Baba Issaka, Eoin Powderly from local team Kilcock Celtic, Colin Murray from Longford Town, Orrin Farrell from Edenderry Town, David O ' Connell from local side Sundays Well and Greg Kilkenny from Northeastern Huskies.

The case has been dramatised on television twice: in See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford ( both 2006 ).

Earl of Longford is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.

It also has outdoor and indoor markets and a shopping centre, however some of Cannock's other shopping facilities are to be found in out of town locations such as Longford Island Retail Estate and the Orbital Retail Park.

Longford has one of the lowest in the county peaks list ahead of Meath and Westmeath.

Longford ’ s population growth during the period 2002-2006 ( 10. 6 %) has been stronger than the National average ( 8. 2 %).

On the island of Ireland, this displacement has not been as rapid because there was only a single introduction, in County Longford.

The Royal Canal also passes westwards through Ballymahon from Dublin to Clondra, Co. Longford and has now been restored.

Mullingar Hockey Club currently has 4 adult teams and the club play its matches in the Loreto College, on the Longford road, not far from the hospital.

The canal passes through Maynooth, Kilcock, Enfield, Mullingar and Ballymahon has a spur to Longford.

The majority of Commuter services are based in Dublin, which has four commuter routes: Northern ( Dundalk ), Western ( Maynooth / Longford ), South Western ( Newbridge / Kildare / Portlaoise ) and South Eastern ( Arklow ).

Longford town has a decentralised government department which employs approximately 300 people with plans for a further 160 to be employed at the Irish Prison Service's new headquarters in the Lisamuck area of the town.

Longford town has a number of primary schools ( for ages 4 – 12 ) and three secondary schools ( for ages 12 – 19 ): two single-sex schools, St. Mel's College, ( a Catholic boys ' school ) and Scoil Mhuire ( a Catholic girls ' school run by the Sisters of Mercy ), as well as a mixed school, ( Templemichael College, formerly known as Longford Vocational School ).

Longford town itself has a strong tradition in soccer, the game being introduced in the late 19th century.

For golfers, Longford has an extensive parkland course.

Longford has an extensive mall sports complex.

Since then the club has grown every year and in the 2009 / 10 season fourteen teams were entered in the Longford & District Schoolboys / girls League from Under 7's to Under 16's with nearly 200 members.

Longford district has many buildings included on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.

Longford has a Service Tasmania shop, supermarkets, a bakery, a butcher ’ s shop, two banks, a Post Office, antique shops, hotels, cafés, take-aways, hairdressers and service stations.

Koppers Inc has a wood treatment plant in Longford.

Longford has a popular golf course south of the town, with eleven holes, seven of which have alternate tees.

It has been suggested that this was because of objections to either its use of stock news footage of a public execution in Lagos, or its presentation of characters designed to be satirical analogues of Mary Whitehouse, Cliff Richard and Lord Longford.

Who activated the radio-controlled bomb is not known: McMahon had been arrested earlier at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard.

Some sets are specific to a locale, or even to a single session, whilst others, like the " Coleman set " of reels (" The Tarbolton "/" The Longford Collector "/ The Sailor's Bonnet "), represent longstanding combinations that have been played together for decades.

However, Longford had already been made a hereditary peer in his own right as Baron Pakenham in 1945.

She and her husband were both devout Roman Catholic converts, Lady Longford having been raised a Unitarian, and avid social reformers.

He had previously represented Surrey in the House of Commons and had already been created Viscount Longford in the Peerage of Ireland in 1675, with similar remainder.

County Longford was added to Leinster by James I in 1608 ( it had previously been considered part of Connacht ), with the county being divided into six baronies and its boundaries being officially defined.

He had already been created Baron Pollington, of Longford in the County of Longford, in 1753, and was made Viscount Pollington, of Ferns in the County of Wexford, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

After been relegated to Division 4 last season, they reached the Lory Meagher Cup Final in Croke Park on July 3, 2010 and won on a score line of Longford 1-20 to Donegal 1-12.

The club have been very successful over the years and recently represented Longford in the Flanders Basketball Tournament in Ghent, Belgium.

In August 1917, Ashe was arrested and charged with sedition for a speech that he made in Ballinalee, County Longford where Michael Collins had also been speaking.

In the 20th century, a number of translations have been produced, including notable English versions by Arland Ussher, Frank O ' Connor, Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, David Marcus, Ciarán Carson, Thomas Kinsella and a partial translation by Seamus Heaney.

The area historically known as Stretford, between the River Irwell in the north and the River Mersey in the south, has since 2004 been divided between the Trafford local government wards of Clifford, Longford, Gorse Hill, and Stretford.

John also had a brief spell with Shelbourne, and Longford Town after having been denied a work permit in order to sign for Colchester United following a successful pre season in 2002.

* It has been suggested that the site of Lir's castle is currently occupied by Tullynally Castle, home of the Earl of Longford, as the name " Tullynally " is the anglicised form of Tullach na n-eala or " hill of the swan ".

He has been a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Longford – Westmeath constituency since May 2007.

Apart from a brief spell as Athlone Town manager in 2004, Aaron had been a coach at Longford Town from July 2002 until the end of the 2006 season.

Since the realignment of Trafford's ward boundaries in 2004, Old Trafford has been divided between the Stretford area wards of Clifford and Longford, with the larger part of Old Trafford being in the Clifford ward.