€56m drainage scheme designed to cope with flood levels
A €56 million project to overhaul Athlone’s drainage system, to commence early next year, has been designed to cope with the November 2009 flooding levels, and will greatly reduce the frequency of flooding and of storm overflow into the river.
Consulting engineers on the Athlone Main Drainage scheme, Ken McIntyre and David Kiely, made a detailed presentation of the plans for the scheme to councillors on Tuesday.
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Proper Pizza is now Mizzoni's Pizza & Pasta
Owner of Proper Pizza Lorenzo Mizzoni decided to go back to using the family name, bringing the number of Mizzoni outlets throughout Ireland to 33. With the same great staff and with a bigger and more extensive menu, Mizzoni pride themselves with looking at quality before price when sourcing their extensive range of ingredients to ensure that the customer receives only the finest pizza and pasta dishes. Watch out for this month’s text alert offer a 16 inch pizza with three toppings for only €9.99. And if that’s not enough, for Easter weekend on Saturday April 4 and Sunday April 5, every delivery gets a free Easter egg. For added convenience, customers can now order online at www.mizzoni.ie.
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Stylish E-Class Cabriolet arrives next month
Alongside the recently-introduced Coupé and soon-to-arrive new E-Class Estate (also due here in April), the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet completes the family of models derived from the new E-Class Saloon whose arrival here last June has helped propel Mercedes-Benz back to the top of the executive and luxury car league.