Westmeath senior manager Jack Cooney was the most relieved man in TEG Cusack PArk following his side’s five-point victory over a fired-up Wicklow side last Sunday, in the first round of the National Football League (Division 3).
Westmeath captured the Kehoe Cup with a 1-14 to 0-12 victory over Carlow at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow last Sunday, giving new manger, Joe Fortune the ideal start in his first season at the helm.
There is nothing like a local derby with bragging rights and indeed putting one over on your noisy neighbours and possibly that above anything else drew a large crowd to Raithin, Grange for the Mullingar battle between one of the oldest amateur clubs in Ireland, Mull-ingar Town and one of the newest in Mullingar Celtic.
A lucky canine escaped with his life after falling into the pond in Mullingar Town Park recently after he became tangled up in the various plants and other organic matter that was present in the water.
An ancient wooden trackway or togher was discovered in Mayne Bog, near Coole in 2005. In the years that followed, a series of targeted Archaeological surveys and excavations established that the trackway dated from the late Bronze Age (c. 870 BC), about 3,000 years ago.
It was the darkest day during ‘peace-time’ on the island of Ireland in the city of Derry fifty years ago last Sunday. Delvin was among the many places to remember ‘Bloody Sunday’ on 30 January 1972 at The Courtyard last Sunday morning at 10.00am.
On that fateful day in 1972, fourteen people were killed after British soldiers from the Parachute Regiment shot twenty-six unarmed civilians taking part in a protest against the internment operation being carried out by the British Army in Northern Ireland.
There was shock news at a local County Council Finance meeting last week, which was confirmed in recent days by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, that planning works on the N4 Mullingar to Longford Project has again been shelved and that work is also suspended on the N52 road plan from Tullamore to Kilbeggan.
King Auctioneers bring this amazingly practical, stylish, five bedroom dormer bungalow to the market this week, situated just two miles from Killucan village, six miles from Mullingar and approximately forty miles Dublin.
Energy efficiency is when we use less energy to perform the same task, eliminating energy waste. Energy efficiency brings a range of benefits, the main one being that we lower our household costs, we reducing greenhouse gas emissions thereby reducing demand for energy imports.
