Westmeath County Council

Westmeath County Council: Athlone, Kinnegad, Moate, Mullingar local electoral areas

Clare houses surrounded by water evacuated as rainfall warning

Residents taken from Springfield in Co Clare while other counties brace for floods

Uncovering Ireland’s lost field names before it’s too late

Many names come from a place’s attributes, while the origins of others are unknowable

Fears of flooding increase as wind and rain warning issued

Shannon, Moy, Corrib catchment areas face more heavy downpours in coming days

Bill to tackle online abuse against politicians ‘should be fast-tracked’

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran worried about effect on young people entering politics

Oil spill in river Shannon near Athlone kills birds and fish

Westmeath County Council investigating source of ‘very serious’ pollution

Child homelessness in midlands more than triples in two years

Number of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of April

Student who tripped on footpath settles case for €41,000

Junior Cert student Stephen Cassidy fractured ankle in fall near his Athlone home

€138m whiskey maturation development gets the go-ahead

Permission granted on appeal for project covering 12 maturation warehouses

Peat harvesting firms refused appeal of planning permission ruling

Companies say 2013 decision could affect 11,000 jobs and bring industry to ‘a standstill’

More than 3,600 local authority homes vacant at end of 2017

Audit report shows councils take on average over seven months to re-let houses

Journalist Gemma O’Doherty running for ‘the wrong house’, councillors suggest

Prospective presidential candidate says she has no intention of standing for Oireachtas

Mullingar site zoned for mixed-use on sale for over €1.8m

Site on 4.23 acres without planning permission was formerly part of larger development

Judge upholds planning board decision on peat extraction works

Friends of the Irish Environment considering an appeal

The story behind Ireland's greenway success

Greenways have achieved the seemingly impossible task of convincing land owners to allow strangers on their land without any compensation – how did they manage it?

‘Boxer’ Moran: I was maddened and embarrassed by my colleagues’ North Korea plan

Minister of State says any tensions within Independent Alliance in the past

Permission granted for new bridge across Shannon in Athlone

Construction of 104-metre pedestrian and cycleway bridge will take two years

Storm Ophelia: Efforts to restore power to 6,000 resume

Repair crews were hampered by heavy rain and high winds during Storm Brian

Full list of local property tax rate increases and decreases for 2018

The tax automatically returns to the base rate each year of 0.18% of the house price

Athlone Town FC wins right to draw down Government grant

Club allowed to avail of €200,000 funding for proposed new astroturf pitch

Bridge across Shannon ‘integral part’ of Dublin-Galway cycleway

Department of Heritage a no-show at hearing on proposed 104 metre bridge for bikes and walkers

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