There was great excitement in Castlepollard and Fore on Friday, 16th of April when Patrick D’Arcy, a Leaving Cert student at Castlepollard Community College was announced as a winner of a European Youth Award at the Virtual YouthStart European Awards held in Vienna, Austria.
Some people in Westmeath have been left to sleep on couches because of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage’s delay in reviewing the threshold limit of income for people who need assistance to rent homes, Westmeath councillors were told this week.
Former Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell, a native of Kilbeggan, is tipped to contest the upcoming by-election in Dublin Bay South, following Eoghan Murphy’s resignation announcement on Tuesday morning this week.
Cllr. John Shaw (FF) enquired at the monthly Mullingar-Kinnegad Municipal District Council meeting last week if members could be updated in relation to progress with the Just Transition walkway project linking Thomastown to Killucan/Rathwire.
In his homily on last Sunday, Good Shepherd Sunday or Vocations Sunday, Bishop Tom Deenihan made a heartfelt appeal to everyone in the Diocese of Meath to pray for and to support and encourage priestly vocations, and those called to the religious life, saying that only if this happened would young people find it possible to respond to Christ’s calling for those needed to be good shepherds and to lead and protect His flock.
“Kinnegad is Westmeath’s ‘front cover’ and it’s important that the County Council works to ensure that it represents the county in the best possible way.”
Cllr. Hazel Smyth asked the Municipal District meeting of the Mullingar-Kinnegad members that the district write to the HSE regarding allocation of additional resources to the endocrinology department (paediatrics) at Mullingar Hospital, which has recently been forced to cease provision of services due to lack of staff and resources.
There were scenes of joy, plenty of them tear-filled, outside Mullingar Regional Hospital on Monday evening of this week, 26 April, when an ambulance drove slowly in through the hospital front gates.
