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Enda Brady, whose father Michael Oliver Brady hails from Ballinamuck, is a correspondent with Sky News for the past 12 years and has covered news stories from local level to war torn communities in as far away as Iraq.

But his love for Longford and most especially Dromard, Colmcille and Ballinamuck is never that far away.

Michael Oliver left his native Ballinamuck after spending a lot of his youth with his aunt and uncle in Dromard to become a guard, and ended up stationed in Co Wexford in the early ’s where he met his wife Margaret.

Together the couple have two sons - Enda and Daragh.

“I was reared in Co Wexford but spent my summers and other holidays down in Longford,” Enda said speaking from his home in the UK this week.

“My father would be a Colmcille man but spent a lot of time in Dromard and played underage football for the club.”

Meanwhile, Enda Brady has some very fond memories of his youth in Co Longford - a place he still v