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FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.

Westmeath’s population stands at 85,961 according to the provisional figures for the 2011 Census which were released yesterday, Thursday June 30.

NUI Galway senior lecturer in archaeology Conor Newman is convinced that a major extensive collaborative survey of the Hill of Tara will lead to the discovery of both “secrets and treasures” and explain why Tara was so important to our ancestors.

There was a new development this week in the investigation into the murder of Athlone man Martin O’Gorman, with the arrest on Wednesday morning of two teenagers from the Navan area.

The sixth class of St Clare’s NS in Tubberclare, Glasson have beaten off creative competition to be announced as one of February’s secondary school finalists in the Boyne Valley Honey Book of Kells National Art Competition.

The Céide Fields and Mayo Boglands, situated near Ballycastle in north Mayo, have been included on a government list as a potential World Heritage site.

A pioneering language project, whereby people volunteer their time to teach conversational English to new migrants in their community, is looking to establish centres throughout County Westmeath.

The body of a Mayo native who went missing from her home in Navan on March 3 was located in the Boyne river near Kilcaim Bridge, on the Dublin side of Navan.

A massive furniture clearance auction is taking place at the Hub in Cillin Hill this weekend.

Rochfortbridge Community Hall was officially opened on Wednesday September 30 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, chairman of Westmeath County Council, and blessed by His Excellency Rev Michael Smith, Bishop of Meath, at a ceremony organised by the hall committee and attended by local community groups, public representatives, and officials.