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By Tríona Doherty

Councillors have approved the taking in charge by the council of a further 10 housing estates in the county, bringing to 63 the total number of estates taken over by the council since 2010.

Westmeath County Council is holding out hope that go-ahead will be given for a cycle path along the old Athlone to Mullingar railway.

Dog littering is “the bane of Tidy Towns groups” across the county, according to councillors who discussed the county’s Litter Management Plan this week.

Cllr Denis Leonard is calling on the council to invite the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to visit Mullingar and Kinnegad to investigate the potential of the towns.

Cllr Denis Leonard is calling on the council to invite the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to visit Mullingar and Kinnegad to investigate the potential of the towns.

Westmeath councillors have vowed not to give up control of the county’s water services without a fight, after hearing details of Government proposals to create a national company to oversee the water sector.

“It has to stop here,” was the response of one Westmeath councillor to news that community grant funding is to be cut again this year.

The youth café planned for Mullingar will now have to go on the bureaucratic long finger after falling victim to a €50,000 shortfall in funding.

Remedial work on the three-year-old council houses in the Bun Daire estate in Kinnegad will cost Westmeath County Council in the region of €80,000.