Amid Covid-19 crisis, local man warns Ireland is too lax
As the Covid-19 crisis takes hold here, a well known Westmeath man back from Spain last Saturday, believes we’ll struggle to find the resources...
Hope is coming from Italy…
by Paul O’Donovan
Last week Chantel De Seta, a Mullingar woman (nee Brady), living with her husband and child in Lombardy, an hour east of...
Ireland’s Showband expert speaks in Mullingar
Westmeath Archaeological and historical society hosted a most unusual lecture in the Greville Arms Hotel on Wednesday last
Ireland’s foremost expert on The Showband era,...
Foster and Allen duo feature on BBC’s “Pointless”
Claire Corrigan
Legendary Westmeath musical duo, Foster and Allen starred on an Ireland-themed edition of BBC1's Pointless, a quiz in which contestants try to...
Shane MacGowan back in the studio with Cronin
By Claire Corrigan It was revealed last week that Shane MacGowan has returned to the studio for the first time in nearly a decade to...
Local author astonished by ban of post to China
By Sean O Domhnaill
Prominent Mullingar author Jack Kiernan from Great Oaks, was intrigued as if by one of his own true-crime stories on Monday...
Manchán Magan meets Prince William and Kate Middleton
By Claire Corrigan
Princess Diana was known as the People’s Princess and it seems that both her son and daughter-in-law, the Duke and Duchess...
Niamh Algar shines on ‘Late Late Show’
By Claire Corrigan It’s a rite of passage for every Irish star and this week it was the turn of actress Niamh Algar who made...
Mullingar man had key role in “1917”
RTÉ and the Irish media were apparently unaware of it, when they told the public that no BAFTA Awards had come to Ireland last...
Sinn Féin ‘Tsunami’ hits Westmeath
By The Editor
The Westmeath and Mullingar end of the Longford-Westmeath Constituency, on paper, was fortunate to emerge with two TD after a...
