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The construction of the new school building for Athlone Community College could provide much needed employment in the Athlone area, according to Deputy Mary O’Rourke.

There’s probably enough of talk of doom and gloom around without me adding to it here. But sure at this stage we wouldn’t know how to cope if we heard a bit of good news anyway, would we? With that in mind I thought I’d share with you something that has been troubling me over the festive period.

Secondary school students from all over Westmeath are gearing up to compete in the Westmeath County Student Enterprise Awards, to take place on Friday March 6 in Golden Island Shopping Centre, Athlone. The winning team will represent Westmeath in the national finals in May.

Eleven science projects from Westmeath are among the 500 national finalists in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2009, the winners of which will be announced later today (Friday).

A heroin addicted father of two who stole a camera from a woman during Sunday service in a church was given 22 months in jail for this and one other sample burglary conviction at the District Court this week (February 18).

Westmeath secondary school students are expected to be amongst the many students entering SciFest this year. This one day festival of science is held in Institutes of Technology around the country and it is here that local secondary school students ranging from first to sixth years demonstrate their projects and participate in a competition.

Connaught Champions, Sionann O'Reilly-Collins, Katie Kelly, Ciara O'Murchadha-Flynn and Laura Mc Intaggart made up the Athlone Community College team taking part in the 40th All- Ireland Schools Cross Country Championship on Saturday March 7.

Last weekend was a busy one on the playing fields of Westmeath and Roscommon with a number of quarter final matches down for decision. Tyrrellspass secured a semi-final spot thanks to their 1-13 to 0-10 win over a gallant Maryland. Most pundits expected the Pass to breeze through against surprise quarter-finalists Maryland. In the end they did, even if they were outplayed in the opening half and it looked as though a shock was on the cards. Finbar Egan’s men deserve credit for the way they took the game to Tyrrellspass in the opening half, leading by five points at one stage and 0-6 to 0-3 at the break.

Over 100 secondary school students gathered in Golden Island shopping centre, Athlone last Friday as they competed to represent Westmeath in the national finals of the Student Enterprise Awards.

The State's over-reliance on prefabricated classrooms was raised at this month's meeting of Westmeath Vocational Education Committee (WVEC), held this week in Castlepollard Community College.