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Don’t you just love the sunshine? Everyone comes out to bask in the little heat we get. You hear more kids playing, see more people out walking, and spend more time out in the garden.

The Athlone Garda Community Policing Unit has joined forces with local residents to undertake a major clean-up of the Woodlands and Ashdale areas next Saturday April 18, as part of An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign.

Funding of €29,655 has been made available to Westmeath County Council to support the work of the Community and Voluntary Forum in Westmeath.

The National Spring Clean campaign is continuing with the people of Mayo out in force organising a variety of fantastic clean up events in the county.

Although in operation since December, the Midlands’ only emergency accommodation service was officially opened in Athlone on Monday this week.

During the launch in the Castlecourt Hotel last Friday of the three Westport area Fine Gael candidates running for the county election, Michael Ring TD told those present that it would not be long before Mayo has a taoiseach and perhaps a job for himself along the way.

An Taisce has extended a sincere thanks to all of the Mayo volunteers who gave freely of their time to organise so many fantastic clean-up events in Mayo throughout April as part of the annual National Spring Clean campaign.

One of the finest examples of “Saints and Scholars” Ireland – the Clonmacnoise ruins just outside Ballinahown – could soon be viewed in the same light as Stonehenge, Macchu Pichu or the Pyramids of Giza, it was revealed in a presentation to Westmeath County Council this week (May 25).

The long term wisdom of the outgoing county council was in scant evidence once again when it decided to object to a plan to protect a number of wildlife areas within the county at its final meeting last week (May 20) before the election.

Longford/Westmeath Deputy James Bannon has welcomed the announcement by Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, John Gormley, that local authority housing tenants are to be offered the chance to buy their rented apartments.