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This new festival was also made possible with from expertise Macnas from Galway and the Liverpool Lantern Company, both acclaimed and award-winning spectacle theatre companies.<\/p>\n<p>The festival builds on the success of last year\u2019s The Light Brigade event also by artistic director Tom Meskell which attracted over 2,000 people to Longford. 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