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16 Apr 2026

RTÉ's Sinéad Hussey takes TV viewers on a 'calm and quiet' trip along Longford's scenic greenway

Longford tourism attractions feature in the new series of RTÉ's Tracks & Trails which airs this Friday, April 17 at 8.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player

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Many of Longford's tourism attractions will feature in the new series of RTÉ's Tracks & Trails which airs this Friday, April 17 at 8.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player. READ MORE BELOW PHOTO 

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Broadcaster and RTÉ's Midlands Correspondent Sinéad Hussey joins presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on a walk along Longford's scenic greenway from Clondra, leading to the Corlea Trackway Centre with its 2,000 year old road. 

They visit the National Famine Way, marking the trail that tenants evicted from Strokestown Estate in 1847 had to walk, all the way to Dublin, as part of a forced emigration to the US and Canada, many of them perishing along the way.
 
They also visit Lime Tree Avenue, which was once part of the Mosstown Estate, built as part of a Famine relief scheme, and in later years, Sinead says, "used as a place for young couples to court." 
Sinead has great knowledge of the locality and an interest in walking and the outdoors. 
Speaking in the programme she says: "My job as a regional correspondent can at times be very pressurised, I find it hard to switch off. So I come out to the canal. As you can see today, it's very quiet, very calm, it's a place where I can just turn off, whether it's for a half an hour or an hour, and just get away from the world, it just really grounds me." 
This episode of Tracks and Trails airs this Friday 17 April at 8.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player. 

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