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Top Prodigy gig for Mullingar DJ

3 July 2014

Mullingar DJ Gavin McDonagh, aka Gamadon, will this week perform the biggest gig of his career when he warms up the crowd for The...

The needle and the damage done – A day with a Mullingar addict

3 July 2014

In order to gauge the extent of the heroin problem in a standard country town, Topic reporter Ronan Casey spent a day in Mullingar...

Major retail boost set for Mullingar

3 July 2014

Mullingar has this week received a big jobs boost with news that two major retailers are opening large town centre stores, creating up to...

Heartbreak as four killed in early morning collision

3 July 2014

By Michelle Crawley and Ronan Casey THE cause of a horrific fatal road accident which took place on the N4 at Portnashangan just outside the...

Middleton Park House put on the market

3 July 2014

ONE of Westmeath’s most iconic Georgian country houses has been put on the market at a guide price of almost €1 million euro. Property consultants...

“Why have we been ignored for six months?” wife of accident victim asks

3 July 2014

“What I want to know is why my personal requests to the Council, that something be done right away to make this bridge safer...

Sad passing of Finea-born writer, Dermot Healy

3 July 2014

FINEA-born author and poet, Dermot Healy, has died aged 66. The well-known writer who was once described by the late Seamus Heaney as “an...

Hike of €250,000 in energy costs crippling major Westmeath employer

3 July 2014

An increase in the Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy, the subsidy charged to all electricity users to support Irish Government energy policy objectives, is...

Denis Leonard appointed to Bord na Móna

3 July 2014

By Michelle Crawley FORMER Westmeath County Councillor with the Labour party, Denis Leonard, Kinnegad, who failed to retain his political seat in the Mullingar-Coole local...

Memorable trad festival gives big boost to Ballynacargy

3 July 2014

Some of the biggest names in traditional music travelled to Ballynacargy last weekend for what proved a hugely successful Midsummer Trad Fest, organised by...