Stephen von Beaumont was crowned Players Intermediate Snooker Champion for 2025 when he defeated number 1 seed Peter Leung 3-0 in the best of five frames final played at St Mary’s Snooker Club, Bishopsgate Street, Mullingar, on Monday evening, 5 May.
Mullingar’s Katie Heffernan has announced her retirement from professional rugby.
Heffernan, who was nine years a professional player made the announcement on Thursday, 1 May.
The Westmeath senior hurlers conceded an incredible 7-23 as Carlow ran out ten-point winners of this bizarre Joe McDonagh Cup senior hurling Round 4 game played in sun-drenched TEG Cusack Park, on Saturday afternoon last.
Mullingar Arts Centre Director Sean Lynch has been driven to once again blast the Arts Council for their lack of financial support of Mullingar Arts Centre over the last decade and has drawn attention to the manner in which Mullingar’s highly successful centre has been so badly treated by the national body.
Westmeath Camogie Chairperson, Karen Goldrick has said that Westmeath’s position on the skorts vs shorts issue “probably doesn’t change” from last year following recent national media attention on the issue.
Kilbeggan-based songwriter of Ireland’s Eurovision, Larissa Tormey, has spoken of her excitement ahead of the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday, 15 May.
Teresa Farrell of Mullingar got a huge surprise last Thursday, May 8, on her final day working in Eurospar, (Marshall’s Green Road) after 26 years of dedicated service.
Kyle Smyth of Smyths Hardware, Mullingar placed third in the Belfast 2 Dublin ultramarathon after running approximately 173km with a time of 20:35:08 on 18 April.
The water usage and hosepipe ban imposed last week on water users in the Mullingar area, as reported in the past two weeks in Topic, is causing temporary inconvenience for thousands of local people, but there’s a new threat now hanging over Lough Ennell and its many amenities, which could easily become an ongoing critical issue.
