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The first example of community involvement in public roads in Westmeath is to get the go-ahead after the council managed to secure an additional €892,000 in funding.

The organisers of the multi-award winning Festival of the Fires have added a host of new additions to the line-up for the two-day ‘Gathering at Uisneach’ to take place at the Uisneach Inn on the May bank holiday weekend.

The team behind Festival of the Fires are keeping the flame burning this May bank holiday weekend when they host a spectacular two-day Gathering at Uisneach at the Uisneach Inn, located at the foothill of the Hill of Uisneach in Killare, Co Westmeath.

To the disappointment of its many fans, the popular Festival of the Fires has been cancelled for this year to allow the site at the Hill of Uisneach to recover.

Three Westmeath events have been chosen as ‘flagship events’ as part of The Gathering 2013 - Festival of the Fires at the Hill of Uisneach in May, the Joe Dolan Westmeath Bachelor Festival in Mullingar on August 2-4, and the Pan European GAA Championship in Athlone in October.

Heritage Week continues all over Westmeath this weekend (August 24-26), with the highlight being the Tyrrellspass Festival, winner of the best event award last year.

Some of the hidden treasures of Westmeath are to feature in the new series of TG4’s Cé a Chónaigh i mo Theachsa?/ Who Lived in My House? next week.

Festival of the Fires promises to ignite the summer festival season in the most spectacular fashion. With fires in all 32 counties lit in solidarity to the main event on the historic Hill of Uisneach in Westmeath, the May Bank Holiday weekend event is possibly going to be the only festival in Ireland that will be visible from space!

The royal site of the Hill of Uisneach, between the Westmeath villages of Ballymore and Loughnavalley, has been nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Called Festival of the Fires, the festival is a rekindling of the ancient Bealtaine festival – the oldest recorded festival in the Western World. The festival will ignite nationwide on May 1 at the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeath (just outside Mullingar) and through the medium of fire, it will be carried to the four corners of the island, with sister festivals taking place in 21 locations.