{"id":287467,"date":"2026-02-08T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287467\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:30:12","slug":"longford-residents-living-in-fear-over-persistent-anti-social-behaviour-at-abandoned-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287467\/","title":{"rendered":"Longford residents living in fear over \u2018persistent anti-social behaviour\u2019 at abandoned factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Niall Gannon has highlighted the concerns of Glack and Teffia residents over the use of an abandoned factory by squatters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recent meeting of Longford Municipal District heard how the factory, which has become a centre point of \u201cpersistent anti-social behaviour\u201d, is adjacent to residential homes and that the situation has resulted in \u201clate-night noise disturbance, increased footfall from unknown and unwanted individuals, and a general sense of fear, intimidation, and unease among local residents.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/ballymahon\/2009138\/threatened-to-have-me-killed-longford-man-jailed-for-assault-on-rail-ticket-inspector.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Threatened to have me killed&#8217;: Longford man jailed for assault on rail ticket inspector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cllr Gannon called for urgent intervention from the council in conjunction with the property owner and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Services, John Brannigan, replied that the council were \u201cacutely aware of the situation\u201d and had placed a &#8216;dangerous site&#8217; notice on the building on January 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/2008409\/rip-large-crowds-gather-say-farewell-to-talented-longford-butcher-and-a-real-gentleman.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RIP: Large crowds say farewell to talented Longford butcher and &#8216;a real gentleman&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once 14 days have passed, explained Mr Brannigan, the Environment Section of Longford County Council can then carry out thorough investigations of the site and proceed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Niall Gannon has highlighted the concerns of Glack and Teffia residents over the use of an abandoned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,93,61,60,3181,19382],"class_list":["post-287467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-longford","tag-longford-county-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}