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Westmeath hoteliers have welcomed the launch of a major turnaround plan for tourism by a national coalition of business interests led by the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation (ITIC) and the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) and including IBEC, Chambers Ireland, and the IFA.

There was a double win for Westmeath’s County Buildings this week, with the new facilities picking up the Best Public Building and the Best Eco Friendly Building prizes at the national local authority awards.

Permission to improve Lockes Distillery in Kilbeggan and Danny Byrnes in Mullingar are the two stand-out files in what looks like a reasonably active start to the planning year, with 21 domestic build applications at varying stages of the process in January.

Three Westmeath students have been named as finalists in the Doodle 4 Google art competition and are now amongst the 60 Irish students in with a chance of winning the national Doodle 4 Google title. Everyone in Westmeath is now being urged to visit www.google.ie/doodle4google and vote for Kevin Stone, Robyn Seery, and Caoimhe Walsh to bring the title to Westmeath.

The Athlone Community College Gaelic Football initiative is now progressing well for its first year and under 14 footballers.

A manager is to be appointed to run and market the new art gallery and renovated castle “by the end of February or early March”, according to town clerk, John Walsh, after an update on the two facilities was given to councillors at last week’s annual budget meeting of the town council.

Passionfruit Theatre Co seeks actors of all ages for its upcoming production of Birds of the Innocent Woods, written by Joe Ducke.

Would you give our politicians €550 out of your pocket? Well millions of euro go unclaimed every year by the Irish public primarily due to an apathetic outlook or lack of awareness of entitlements. They are losing out substantially when compared with their more proactive citizens who are claiming back an average of €550 in tax entitlements. So who are these savvy go getters? This question was asked and answered by tax specialists www.taxback.com who have released the results of their taxback index which takes a look over the last half decade to see who has been chasing the Revenue for what they are owed and while it may be a widely held view that women are more prudent with cash – the results would present a good counter argument.

A manager is to be appointed to run and market the new art gallery and renovated castle “by the end of February or early March”, according to town clerk, John Walsh, after an update on the two facilities was given to councillors at this week’s annual budget meeting of the town council.

From horse hair and hazelnuts to ballet and biofuels, Westmeath students have been busy investigating some of the more unusual scientific questions, and will learn of their success later this evening [Friday] as the winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition are announced.