Longford (Irish: An Longfort, meaning "the port") is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 7,622 according to the 2006 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meeting of the N4 and the N5 primary routes, which means that traffic travelling between Dublin and Counties Mayo and Roscommon passes through the town.

The town is built on the banks of the River Camlin (from Irish: Camlinn, meaning "crooked pool"), which is a tributary of the River Shannon. It was founded by Vikings, who used it as an inland port. The Irish thus named it Longphort, from the Irish long (meaning "ship") and port (meaning "port" or "dock"). Longfort is the modern Irish spelling. This name was anglicized as Longford.

The area came under the sway of the local clan which controlled the south and middle of the County of Longford (historically called Anghaile or Annally) and hence, the town is sometimes called Longphort Uí Fhearghail (port of O'Farrell).

Joseph "Joe" Joyce (born March 18, 1961 in Consett, County Durham) is an English former footballer and currently appointed Academy Manager at Newcastle United.

Joyce started his career as a junior with Barnsley in 1979 and went on to make more than 350 appearances for them. He then moved onto Scunthorpe, before hanging up his boots at Carlisle in 1998.

Joyce arrived in July 2006 at Newcastle to become Academy Manager, having earlier worked as the PFA's Head of Coaching.

In May 2008 it was rumored that Peter Taylor was being lined up as new director of Newcastle United's academy and thereby replacing Joyce but Taylor decided to become manager of Wycombe Wanderers instead.

Mick Wall (born June 23, 1958) is a British music journalist, radio and TV presenter, and author.

Wall began his career contributing to the music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote on punk and the new wave, before graduating to rockabilly, funk, New Romantic pop and, eventually, hard rock and heavy metal. In 1979, he left music journalism to become the partner in his own PR firm, Heavy Publicity, aged just 20, where he oversaw press campaigns for artists such as Black Sabbath, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, The Damned, Dire Straits and several others. In the early 1980s he also worked at Virgin Records as press officer for such artists as Gillan, The Human League, Simple Minds, Japan and others.

By 1983, Wall become one of the main journalists in the early days of Kerrang! magazine, where he was their star cover story writer for the next nine years. He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, and presented his own television and radio shows on Sky TV, Capital Radio, BBC GLR, BBC Radio 1, Planet Rock and, others. He has also guested on on several television programmes and documentaries on BBC TV, ITV, Sky One, Channel Four and MTV.