Irish county lacking leader for ever old-fashioned (5)

I believe the answer is:

alway

'for ever old-fashioned' is the definition.
(archaic version of 'always')

'irish county lacking leader' is the wordplay.
'irish county' becomes 'galway' (county of Ireland).
'lacking leader' means to remove the first letter.
'galway' with its initial letter removed is 'ALWAY'.

(Another definition for alway that I've seen is " Poetically, for ever".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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