I wish to be a football star player for York City.
By Ross Flaherty
I wish for a computer at home.
Jason Mc Donnell
My wish is I want a motorbike
Paddy Stokes
My wish is a happy Christmas to everyone, especially my family.
By Joe Lawrence
My wish is to meet David Beckham and to get his autograph.
By Billy Stokes
My wish is to be a good footballer.
By Robert Stokes
My wish to play for Manchester Utd.
By Johnny O'Leary.
My wish is to be a world famous actor.
By Michael Reilly
I would like to visit Paris.
By John Reilly
My wish is to be a Tae-Kwon-Do teacher.
By Jason Reilly.
My wish is to be in the Air Force.
By Mark Canty
I would like to play for Liverpool.
by Liam Hand.
I wish I could go to Disney World. I wish I was in the army. I wish I had a BMX bike. I wish I had a mansion. I wish I had a £1,000,000. I wish I had a pool table. I wish I had a swimming pool in my garden. I wish I had a computer.
by Eddie Doyle
4th class wish you all peace and happiness

Surfing the net
In 1960s The Army developed the Internet to talk to each other to transport Information around America. The Internet became very big in the last five years. In 1998 there were over 400 million Web pages.Computer Enginers said the Web pages would go to 600 million for 1999 but that has increased to 800 million Web pages.The Internet is now coming more popular by the minute. Billy Glennon set up a new Website address to find other pages like Yahoo.They have offices in Dublin in Ireland, New York and London. Brian Kelly is the Development officer for the Midlands with Local Ireland. Brian was up in the library with us on Friday the 18th of November. He told us all about the Internet and all about Websites. Brian Kelly went into our school Website. We saw lots of our Stories,Poems and pictures in it. He went to Slashers GAA. It told us a lot about it. We voted for best footballer in Co.Longford for the Millenniun.We voted for Sean Donnelly. When he was finished wewere allowed to surf the net and see what we wanted. Me and Gerard went on one computer and looked up Vlad the Impailer but there wasn't much about him.So we went to our school's Website once again and went into Pupil of the Year Award and looked up the Past Pupils. We had half an hour to do that. I thought the Net was intresting and I will use it again when I need Information.
By Patrick Hackett,6th Class

Ducks in the Mall
By Michael McKenna and Richard Kenny

There are hundreds of mallard ducks in the mall. The mallard is one of the most common wild ducks.

The mallard is about 2 ft long. The male is greyish-brown and has a chestnut breast and white bottom ,

Its head and throat are greenish-black, and a white collar encircles its neck. The female top has brownish feathers in the breeding season the male bottom has brightly coloured plumage.

Mallard will live most anywhere near water , nesting on the ground .

The females usually lay 8 to 10 dull yellow or greenish eggs.

Mallards feed chiefy on water insects and snails during early summer.

I live in Harbour Row in the center of Longford town.The reason it’s called Harbour Row is because once there was a canal harbour where the swimming pool is now. The harbour was part of the Royal Canal which was built to connect Dublin with the River Shannon. Construction began in 1790 and finished in 1817 when it reached The Shannon at Clondra.
All kinds of goods were transported by barge. When they reached the harbour they were transferred to the local businesses.There was also passenger traffic on the canal, but with the coming of the railway in the 1800s, goods and passenger traffic switched to the new means of transport. The branch line to Longford was closed about 40 years ago.

The HISTORY of Harbour Row

The houses in Harbour Row on my side of the street  were built in the early 1800s and were known as ‘Harbour Row Cottages’. On the opposite side of the road there was a field which was known as the ‘Pig Market’ or the ‘Barley Field’. The pig fairs were held there and also some markets. The present houses were built there in the late 1930s.My great-great grandparents lived in Harbour Row and all my family right down to my generation. The late Vincent Gill who founded the ‘Longford News’ lived at the top of my street and printed the newspaper there.

Today we visited the army barracks. We walked up to the barracks from school. Our class and third class went. When we came in to the barracks we got a huge welcome. It is a very big barracks.
I held three guns. They were a sniper a kind of a machine-gun and a bazooka. I pretended I was shot. A soldier told us that if a bullet was fired up in to the air that it could land anywhere. He showed us a hand pistol and a real bullet. Two boys in my class have fathers working there. We saw graves of two horses. It used to be a castle. It has lots of buildings in it. There is a barrier at the front of the barracks. I might like to work in the barracks when I grow up.
After we used the guns we went into machines. One machine has a big gun at the front. There is a big huge tank at the front of the barracks. We went because wherever our project is about we go there.
By Gareth Hughes

Connolly Barracks/ Dún Uí Conghaile.
Captain Sean Clarke was the first Irish Officer, on the morning of February 17th 1922, to raise the Irish flag in Sean Connolly Barracks, Longford. Previous to this a British Unit, the 13th Hussars, occupied the barracks. The barracks was renamed Sean Connolly Barracks after Comdt. Sean Connolly.
Sean Connolly was born on a 17-acre farm in France, a townland one mile southeast of Ballinalee, Co. Longford. He was killed by British forces, on March 11th 1921, while fighting for his country’s freedom.
Connolly Barracks is now a Cavalry Barracks, currently occupied by 4th Motor Squadron. Their services to the nation include tours of border duty, security escort of cash, explosives training, and overseas UN duties. They also serve the public during strikes, working as fire fighters, ambulance men, bus drivers, etc.
Comdt. Kieran Dalton is now the Commanding Officer in Connolly Barracks.
It is now the second largest employer in Longford, after the closing of Atlantic Mills
Damien Rhatigan.
Kevin Carberry
Aaron MacMonagle.
5th Class.

Longford Man wins Lotto

A Longford man won £750,000 in the lotto last Wednesday. The winning ticket was bought in Newsround, Main Street. Nobody knows who won it. The winning numbers were 3,8,10,12,14 and 15.

We never won the lotto in our house.But we won a lot other prizes. We won a bike and tent. We won holidays to Disneyland Paris and DisneyWorld. Also we won £200 to spend in Champion Sports in Dublin.

By Thomas Toolan