Museums, education, arts, creativity, community and a retirement village for military veterans are just some of the suggestions being put forward by a Group of Mullingar people who will release their proposal in its totality in the coming weeks.
Following a disap-pointing National Football League campaign, which saw them relegated to Division 3, Westmeath are preparing for the Leinster Senior Football Championship Quarter-Final against Laois next Sunday, at O’Connor Park, Tullamore (1.30pm).
This six-bedroom detached dormer bungalow, standing on approximately 1.5 acres, offers modern living at its best and comes to the market ready for occupation with ample living accommodation. Viewing is a must on this home, to appreciate it all it offers a family.
On Monday of this week, 21 June, a new National Famine Way App was launched which allows all those who undertake the Famine Way walk, by walking along the bank of the Royal Canal, in the footsteps of the 1,490 poor and hungry people from Strokestown Estate, who were forced to walk to Dublin and sent on “coffin ships” to Canada in May 1847, to learn their sad story.
Traditional musicians not only in Westmeath but over a very wide area mourned the passing of James (Jim) Keane, of Corbetstown House, Killucan, whose death at his home, surrounded by his loving family, occurred on May 20 last, following a short illness.
A young Kinnegad woman is amongst a small group of people in Ireland living with a condition that has always been under-diagnosed but which means that even the smallest scrape can result in heavy blood loss.
Cllr. Mick Dollard (Independent) has asked when council offices would open again and when face-to-face meetings with officials would recommence, describing the present situation as “an absolute nightmare” and “totally unsatisfactory as public representatives”.
Talented singer/songwriter Cian O’Farrell’s first original song ‘Daydream’ went down a storm with music lovers and now the musician is set to release his second self-penned tune.
“We are not surrendering to turf cutting stoppages or to pushing from officialdom,” a very determined John Keane said, when he stood looking across Drumcree Bog last Thursday and spoke to Topic.
