It wasn’t a shock of major proportions but nonetheless a few eyebrows were raised when reigning champions St Loman’s Mullingar were beaten by The Downs in the first round of this year’s senior football championship at the weekend.
A man who was convicted of stealing a cash-box containing almost €50,000 from a Mullingar bank two years ago has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. Former Westmeath GAA County Board Chairman, Séamus Ó Faoláin, who led the county from 1986 to 2007, passed to his eternal reward on Monday, 2 August.
This well-presented and very well maintained four bed semi-detached house, in the much sought after location of Gleann Petit in Mullingar, off the Dublin Road, has come to the market and early viewing is recommended as an immediate sale is anticipated.
Monday of this week was to be freedom day for the hospitality sector with the reopening of indoor dining, but the new laws are making it impossible for some businesses to operate.
This impressively decorated two-bedroom stone cottage, one of the last two remaining labourers cottages from Gaybrook estate, has come to the market at a very affordable price.
The Westmeath ladies footballers have produced a remarkable recovery to finish top of their group in the All-Ireland Intermediate Championship and will face Clare in the quarter-finals on Sunday week.
Mullingar Celtic are certainly making huge strides in their first ever season. The newly formed club dumped highly ranked BBC United out of the CCFL Westmeath Cup last Sunday morning in Grange, Mullingar.
