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It will be at least next March before the restoration of Athlone Castle is complete.

There was shock and praise in equal measures at the end of Monday’s meeting of Athlone Town Council when town clerk John Walsh announced he had presided over his final council meeting.

A fear of water combined with the Tiger’s demise has seen the adoption of a plan prepared for the southerly expansion of Athlone between Burgess Park and Willow Park postponed for at least four years until the ongoing study on Shannon flooding is published in 2014.

Salt shortages in Westmeath may be a thing of the past next year, if an appeal to the National Roads Authority (NRA) for an extra storage facility in Athlone is successful, it was revealed at the first Athlone Town Council meeting of the year, held earlier this week.

An attempt to stop the county council taking charge of housing estates where residents had complained about burst pipes during the recent cold weather failed this week, when it was pointed out that evidence of cowboy pipe layers did not match the anecdotes, and that there were also legal impediments.

A €1.2 million extension plan for the Athlone Regional Sports Centre got the green light this week when councillors agreed to commence the planning process for the expansion of facilities at the centre.

A meeting with Waterways Ireland is to be sought by council members before they make a decision on how best to proceed with the local area plan for Glasson.

The elected members of Westmeath County Council have voted to adopt the final River Basin Management Plans for the protection and improvement of all waters in the Shannon and Eastern River Basins, both of which transect County Westmeath. The plans are to come into effect on July 9 this year, and will remain in place until 2015.

“Hideous” and “deplorable” is how local councillors described the state of Athlone shopping centre (Texas centre) this week as they called on the council executive to act to improve its derelict appearance.

A set of bylaws to regulate the use of Westmeath’s lakeshore areas is to be considered by councillors and put on public display in the coming months.