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With Christmas lights soon to have an illumination impact in the towns and villages across the county, the affording of relevant grants towards their erection and maintenance was the pertinent topic of conversation during the November meeting of Athlone Moate Municipal District.

A proposal to conduct a feasibility study pertaining to the introduction of a light rail system on the old railway line from Moate to Athlone to include Mullingar at a later date was afforded diligent thought during the monthly meeting of Athlone Moate Municipal District.

Chairman of the Athlone Festival and Events Group, Mr. Shay Hamilton, has called upon the local public to gather en masse in the Civic Square on Sunday afternoon for the formal switching on of the new Christmas lights display.

Fine Gael Councillor, John Naughten, has highlighted the benefits the upgrade of the waste water treatment plant in Monksland can deliver for the area.

Athlone Councillor, Aengus O’Rourke, has this week hit out at the Government’s poor attitude towards delivering much needed funding to local and regional drug and alcohol task forces in communities nationwide, noting that “they are letting down those most in need of support”.

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Fianna Fáil members in Galway West have selected Cllr Ollie Crowe and Éamon Ó Cuív TD to contest the next General Election. The selection convention took place last week in the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill.

The community of Mount Temple/Baylinwere in unified mode in recent weeks as they busily prepared for the production of a series of short heritage videos.

A ceremony to commemorate the honour of the Jadotville Tigers and family representatives took place in Athlone Institute of Technology on Saturday afternoon.

Irish Water have confirmed that a short term solution to reduce the number of water outages which are proving to be a constant affliction on residents and businesses in Athlone will take up to six months to implement.