Offaly
Americannoun
noun
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At Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships in County Offaly, Mary Garvey, a 47-year-old farmer from Roscommon, told AFP: "It has to be economically sustainable to farm environmentally."
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
A separate red warning has been issued for counties Offaly and Westmeath from 05:00 until 07:00.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2023
And four decades after that, Barack Obama retraced the steps of a great-great-great-grandfather from Moneygall, in County Offaly, joking that the Obamas had come “to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
Mr. Puska, who the police said lived in County Offaly, was taken to the district court in Tullamore, where he denied the charges.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
The earl appointed his twenty-year old son, Thomas, Lord Offaly, deputy, and left Ireland, never to return.
From The Viceroys of Ireland by Charles O'Mahony
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