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Despite efforts in recent years to establish a town bus service for Mullingar, plans are no further along and Westmeath County Council is not in a position to advance them, local councillors were informed last week.

Mobile cameras are an option available to Westmeath County Council in its ongoing prosecution of illegal dumpers, county manager Danny McLoughlin confirmed this week after Cllr Frankie Keena complained about a pony carcass dumped on a public road outside Athlone.

Cllr Peter Burke became the latest cathaoirlach of the Mullingar area committee of Westmeath County Council, after his uncontested elevation at its annual meeting on Monday.

Oxigen, the company which won the Westmeath County Council tender for domestic waste in the county, is one of the largest employers throughout the Midlands employing a total of 48 people in the region; 10 in Laois, 22 in Offaly, and now a total of 16 in Westmeath.

Cllr Aidan Davitt is calling on Westmeath County Council to consider the roll out of a ‘Buy Westmeath scheme’ to encourage people to shop locally. The initiative would be an extension of the existing Mullingar Chamber voucher scheme.

As a difficult week for Fine Gael draws to a close, so too does the political year, with Westmeath County Council and Athlone and Mullingar town councils gearing up to elect new chairpersons.

Westmeath County Council marked further progress this week in the development of cycleways around Mullingar when it opened the newest phase of the town’s cycleways on the Royal Canal between Harbour Bridge and the Dublin Bridge. The ceremony was performed on Friday June 4 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council as part of the Active Travel Mullingar Project.

A Mullingar-based architecture project is among the 55 projects on the shortlist for this year’s Irish Architecture Awards, which was recently announced by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI). The Westmeath County Buildings and Library was designed by Bucholz McEvoy Architects and was completed last year.

In conjunction with Mullingar’s week of sporting activities, Destination Sport, which takes place next week from June 12 to 20 the Chamber has launched a family day of food and entertainment on June 20. The week long activities for all the family are expected to bring 10,000 into the town, creating a revenue of some €1million.

With the treacherous road conditions of the past winter still fresh in the mind of many of the county’s inhabitants, the council this week announced an additional 33.5 kilometres of Westmeath roads which will be gritted in the case of extreme freezing weather conditions.