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Sat 12 Dec 2008Empty homes, broken promises
Longford is just one of the many towns that rushed to develop during the boom. Now it is left with a legacy of vacant homes, an empty shopping centre and ghostly quiet housing estates
YOU MAKE your way along the deserted laneway as the early morning mist still hovers above the hedgerows. After a couple of miles, the first houses come into view, just beyond the ditch. It is eerily quiet, almost like a post-apocalyptic scene from a science-fiction movie.
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