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The county quietly gained its latest tourist attraction this week with the news that the 34km walking route between Kilbeggan and Mullingar - the Westmeath Way - has been formally recognised by the National Trails Office, the trekking branch of the Irish Sports Council.

Remedial work on the three-year-old council houses in the Bun Daire estate in Kinnegad will cost Westmeath County Council in the region of €80,000.

The council chamber enjoyed a rare laugh this week when unreformed smoker Cllr Fintan Cooney bristled at a suggestion for banning smoking from the town park playground, saying such a move would “eliminate grandparents”.

The National Roads Authority came in for some heavy criticism this week from Mullingar councillors after it removed the picture of a caravan from a roadsign outside Tyrrellspass.

A final decision is to be made on a new set of parking bylaws for Mullingar at next Monday’s meeting of Westmeath County Council.

A Mullingar councillor is calling on Westmeath County Council to reduce the speed limit at Tallyho, off the N52, from 80kph down to 50kph.

Mullingar Town Council is getting behind the National Shop for Ireland Day, due to take place on Saturday September 24.

As expected, James Bannon TD and Senator Nicky McFadden were chosen by party members on Sunday evening, November 28, to represent Fine Gael on the ballot sheet for Longford-Westmeath in the forthcoming General Election.

The vexed question of discarded chewing gum on the streets of Mullingar will have to be re-addressed, when it was revealed this week the experimental‘gumbuster’ machine employed recently by the council “was more damaging to the surfaces than to the gum”.

Cllr Aidan Davitt has welcomed the extensive school works that have been carried out in Mullingar town over the summer, saying he is very pleased with the improvements which will benefit children on their return to school.