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Over 100 secondary school students gathered in Golden Island shopping centre, Athlone last Friday as they competed to represent Westmeath in the national finals of the Student Enterprise Awards.

The State's over-reliance on prefabricated classrooms was raised at this month's meeting of Westmeath Vocational Education Committee (WVEC), held this week in Castlepollard Community College.

Westmeath’s minor footballers face a major battle this weekend as they face Meath in the Leinster minor football quarter-final. Ger Heavin’s young charges face the added difficulty of having to travel to the lions’ den to take on the reigning provincial champions. Having easily accounted for Carlow in the opening round this will be a much sterner test.

Deputy Willie Penrose has described the revelation that the new building for Athlone Community College is unlikely to be completed until the end of 2012, at the earliest, as “disappointing”.

Students in four local post-primary schools are to benefit from access to high-speed broadband as part of a new Government project.

With the Flanagan Cup already settled into the comfortable surrounds of Garrycastle, Tubberclair, and Caulry completed a memorable treble for south-side clubs by capturing the Westmeath intermediate and junior titles respectively last weekend. All three clubs border each-other, and to have the three main pieces of silverware on offer in the county wintering so closely together is a rare occurrence indeed.

Athlone Community Radio was delighted to receive a Craol National Achievement Award at a gala ceremony which took place at the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, Athlone on Saturday night.

It is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. While the footballers of Garrycastle and Tubberclair will be disappointed this week to have fallen short at the final hurdle in Leinster, they can take solace in the fact that they did what very few club players ever get the chance to do - represent their club in a provincial final. In doing so they put Westmeath football back in the spotlight after an eminently forgettable year on the county scene.

When people think of the Portumna hurling captain, they almost automatically associate that honour with Ollie Canning.

Athlone Community College took a total of 15 medals in the Connacht Schools Swimming Championships at the weekend.