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Are you parenting alone/solo? Would you like to see more supports in your area for people parenting alone? If so the Lone Parents Support Group would like to hear from you - male or female, young or old.

After witnessing the elevation of his protégé, Robert Troy to the Dail last month, the 29-year political career of Castlepollard businessman Donie Cassidy ended this week in bittersweet fashion after he failed in his efforts to be returned to the 24th Senate.

The Bealtaine Festival is the national festival celebrating creativity in older age and Ireland’s largest collaborative arts festival. Running from May 1-31 and co-ordinated by Age & Opportunity, the festival collaborates with local, regional, and national organisations to produce inspiring and innovative opportunities for older people to engage and participate in a whole range of arts events and experiences.

Festival of the Fires promises to ignite the summer festival season in the most spectacular fashion. With fires in all 32 counties lit in solidarity to the main event on the historic Hill of Uisneach in Westmeath, the May Bank Holiday weekend event is possibly going to be the only festival in Ireland that will be visible from space!

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On Friday May 6 a number of great acts will get a chance to showcase their talent in the county final of VFI Stars of our Bars, which has been running since January. Now is the time to support the act you want to see in the regional final.

Communities all around Westmeath are doing their part over the Easter bank holiday weekend to make their local areas a cleaner place to live with An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign. The National Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative organised by An Taisce and funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Passionfruit Theatre Co proudly presents Birds of the Innocent Woods, written by Joe Ducke and directed by Grainne Moore.

Westmeath’s minor footballers were no match for a hugely impressive Dublin side in the opening round of the provincial campaign. There are very few positives that can be taken from a beating like this and again it highlights the need for a root and branch look at underage football in the county.

Westmeath footballers will be hoping it’s a case of third time lucky when they take the field against Louth in Croke Park this Saturday evening at 7pm. Louth came out on top when the sides met in the championship last summer and again in the first round of this year’s league campaign.