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
Jozef Puska, 33, from Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, County Offaly, was found guilty by a unanimous jury on Thursday.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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
John FitzThomas FitzGerald, Baron of Offaly, was the common ancestor of the two great branches of the Geraldines, whose history is an object of such peculiar interest to the Irish historian.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
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