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A large group of international tour operators and buyers visited Kilbeggan Distillery and Old Locke’s Distillery Museum on a familiarisation trip to the Midlands. The group are in Ireland to attend Meitheal 2011, the annual travel trade workshop organised by Fáilte Ireland, in conjunction with Tourism Ireland. Meitheal is one of the largest tourism trade workshops and the most important event of the Irish tourism calendar.

Despite the massive reductions in the HSE’s building budget in the last four years, all bar one of the nine projects in Mullingar and Westmeath are finished or on schedule.

Three Westmeath students were among 60 lucky students who travelled to Dublin’s Science Gallery to find out if their doodle had been selected by Google’s chief doodler as the overall winner of Google’s Irish Doodle 4 Google competition.

A prestigious travel publication showcasing whiskey-making at Lockes Distillery in Kilbeggan has hit the newsstands in Germany, profiling the best in holidays here to over 100,000 avid readers and potential holidaymakers.

Some spring growth seems to be slowly returning to Westmeath business, as evidenced from the planning lists at Westmeath County Council, with a new tyre service facility in Delvin and a new convenience store and deli in Kilbeggan the notable beneficiaries of the official green light.

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.

The return of icy conditions to the Mullingar area this week saw a record five road collisions occur within a two hour period on Wednesday morning.

In spite of ongoing freezing weather conditions for the greater part of this week, the majority of council services and facilities have been operating as normal.

Irish Citylink this week launched its Galway to Dublin commuter service, which will serve several of Westmeath’s towns including Athlone, Moate, Kilbeggan, Tyrellspass, Rochfortbridge, Milltownpass, and Kinnegad.

Three is to become two where the county’s Joint Policing Committees (JPCs) are concerned, with the county committee to be dissolved in favour of just two committees in Athlone and Mullingar.