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Athlone councillors this week welcomed the establishment of Athlone Art & Heritage Ltd, a private limited company set up to manage the council’s artistic and heritage facilities including Athlone Castle and the new art gallery and artist studios.

Do you have skills that you feel you are not using to their full potential? Do you want to gain valuable experience to add to your CV? Do you want to enrich your social circle by meeting new people, and to have a busier social calendar? Do you have a little time to spare each week and want to help change your community for the better?

A Westmeath company, C&F Automotive, is to benefit from a new graduate programme developed by Enterprise Ireland. Graduate Ciara Cosgrove is to join C&F Automotive, based in Collinstown, as part of Graduates 4 International Growth (G4IG), developed and delivered by Enterprise Ireland in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

It’s official: the 15 General Election candidates for the Longford-Westmeath constituency have been confirmed, with a couple of latecomers adding their names to the ballot sheet at the eleventh hour.

Catch me if you can, a hilarious new comedy play written by Margaret McKenna Mullan and directed by Eoin Croffy, makes its debut in the Passionfruit Theatre on Thursday February 24 and runs for five consecutive nights until Monday February 28.

The eagerly awaited draw for the 2011 Westmeath senior football championship took place recently and as always sparked plenty of debate with some intriguing clashes in store.

The plan to halve the number of vocational educational committees (VECs) across the country in accordance with the McCarthy report was presented to Westmeath County Council this week.

RTÉ’s Operation Transformation TVseries is teaming up again with the Irish Sports Council to bring you a great family sports day this Saturday February 5. The event will take place in AIT, where experts in a range of sports will be on hand to guide you through the basics of a wide variety of sporting activities. All five leaders from the programme and fitness expert Karl Henry and medical doctor Dr Eva Orsmonde will be there drumming up support for the family day of fun.

With over 33,000 people unemployed in the midland region, IBEC, the lobby group that represents businesses, said that these new figures highlighted the need for all political parties to focus on putting jobs at the top of their agenda.

Westmeath schools have been invited to take part in this year’s Greenwave project after two schools took part in the project last year. The participating schools in 2010 were Scoil Náisiúnta Brighde Buach, Rochfortbridge and Eoin Naofa National School, Mullingar.