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Pat Flanagan may have dominated the headlines last week after being appointed as interim Westmeath manager, but this week it’s a different Flanagan that will be on the minds of the football fraternity of Westmeath as the race for this year’s Flanagan Cup gets under way in earnest. Maryland and Kinnegad kicked off this year’s action in Moate last Sunday but the remaining five games are down for decision this weekend. The intermediate championship also kicks off this weekend.

A man remains in a critical condition in Mullingar hospital after his lorry overturned during a five-vehicle collision on the Mullingar bypass on Wednesday morning this week.

After 18 years of working towards the aesthetic improvement of Mullingar’s primary geographic feature, the Mullingar Royal Canal Amenity Group was formally acknowledged this week with an Address of Recognition accorded by the cathaoirleach and members of Mullingar Town Council.

Forty housing estates in Westmeath are to be taken in charge by the council before the end of 2011.

Water service in the Gaybrook/Miltownpass area is set for improvements in the near future after it was revealed this week Westmeath County Council has applied to itself to build a 1,000 cu. m resevoir extension in the townland.

Hundreds of well-wishers turned out to welcome President Mary McAleese when she took in three different locations during her visit to the county on Tuesday this week.

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A new junction on the N4 at The Downs is expected to be under construction by 2011, it was revealed this week. The junction, which will cost in the region of €8-€10 million, will allow four existing dangerous junctions along a five kilometre stretch of road to close permanently.

Westmeath County Library and Arts Service welcomed John W Sexton on October 2 to launch Children’s BookFest 2008 and to mark the first National Poetry Day Ireland.

Judge John Neilan acknowledged the psychiatric difficulties of a 50-year-old Killucan man when he dismissed the charges against him of threatening behaviour putting others in fear.