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If you have recently wandered through the streets of Mullingar and wondered why you were seeing beautiful pieces of original artwork on display in various shop windows, then you are viewing what is considered to be a completely unique experience in Ireland. The Mullingart project’s 24/7 people’s art gallery has returned for 2011.

Mullingar Town Council is getting behind the National Shop for Ireland Day, due to take place on Saturday September 24.

Councillor Peter Burke has become the latest cathaoirleach of the Mullingar Town Council, and assumed the position at a very speedy annual meeting in the Market House in Mullingar on Tuesday evening (June 28).

The Mullingart 2011 project was launched in style last Monday at the studio of the Free Arts Society in Mullingar. The project caught the imagination of the Midlands’ town last year and intends to be bigger and better for 2011.

Mullingar will once again be celebrating its connection with famous literary genius James Joyce on Bloomsday, June 16.

Visitors to Mullingar next month should be able to enjoy at least two weekends of free parking in the run-up to the Sseasonal madness, the Executive confirmed at this week’s monthly meeting of the local area committee.

The latest incarnation of a 131-year-old Mullingar institution returned this week, with the re-opening of Days Bazaar on Oliver Plunkett Street.

The Mullingar Chamber of Commerce, in association with Westmeath County Council and Waterways Ireland, are hosting Mullingar’s first ever Royal Duck Derby, to celebrate the wonderful works carried out on the canal over the past number of years.

Cllr Ruth Illingworth has paid tribute to the work being carried out in Mullingar’s Saplings school, which provides early intervention for children with autism.

National Heritage Week, coordinated by the Heritage Council, runs from August 21-29. With just a few weeks to go, people are reminded to pick up a copy of the event guide or log on to www.heritageweek.ie to check out what events are happening in their area