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Continuing rumours surrounding the future of Mullingar hospital sparked a heated exchange between councillors this week, as they clashed on how best to approach the fight to retain services at the facility.

A local councillor has criticised the reluctance of a housing estate developer in Mullingar to attend to a recently issued enforcement order to maintain the green areas in the Ardleigh and Ardilaun estates as agreed.

A second pedestrian crossing promised for the Dublin Road in Mullingar will have to wait until at least next year but could take another five years to complete, if the vague answer given to a councillor this week is taken at face value.

The completion of the Mullingar orbital road, begun nearly 13 years ago, is expected to be finished by late summer with the completion of what is claimed to be “the longest bridge in the country”.

Mullingar Town Council is to write to the new Minister for Social Protection, Éamon Ó Cuív, to sort out what one local councillor has termed the “anomalies” in the Mortgage Interest Supplement scheme (MIS).

A speed limit of 100kmph is to be applied to the stretch of the Mullingar to Dublin M4 motorway at Coralstown junction, after councillors approved new bye-laws for the road this week.

The local representatives of Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) were described as “vermin” and “garbage” by the Cathaoirleach of the town council, historian Ruth Illingworth, after they sent in an anonymous protest letter to the council this week (February 18).

Chairman of Mullingar Town Council, Cllr Mick Dollard, received a breakdown of capital projects under the control of Westmeath County Council for the current year and proposals for 2009, at the monthly Town Council meeting last week.

Westmeath County Council remains confident at all times of the high quality of its water supplies, according to county manager Dan McLoughlin.

The planned €20 million Robinstown sports and leisure complex took a step closer to completion this week when councillors approved the part 8 planning process for the facility.