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A rugby jersey signed by the Irish Grand Slam team has been presented to the committee of the ‘Fr Gerry Hipwell Memorial Cycle’ and is to be auctioned on eBay in the next week or two.

Express parcel delivery company DPD Ireland, formerly Interlink, was on the move recently in Westmeath. The Westmeath depot moved from the Clara Road, Moate to the Midlands Gateway Business Park in Kilbeggan. The depot has been operated by Carol Claffey and Joe Christal for the past three years.

The Fr Gerry Hipwell memorial cycle will take place on Saturday May 2 at the Carmelite Grounds, Moate.

A new Mullingar Library is to open in June this year, while initiatives whereby young people deliver library books to elderly people are set to spring up around the county.

Small scale building works are to be carried out in 30 primary and secondary schools across Westmeath as part of the Summer Works Scheme 2009.

Mona Joyce of St Kieran’s Community Centre in Athlone was the worthy recipient of this year’s overall Cathaoirleach’s Award.

The world’s biggest sailing event, the 10th Volvo Ocean Race, will arrive in Ireland for the first time on May 23. Following the transatlantic leg, racing from Boston, it will arrive and stay in Galway for a two-week stopover before leaving on the next leg for Goteborg in Sweden.

Ireland’s premier party band, The LOLS, have just been added to the Kilbeggan race card in a bank holiday special this Sunday May 31.

The generosity, ingenuity, and innovation of young people who are active in their communities was evident at the permanent tsb Foróige Youth Citizenship Regional Awards which took place in the Tullamore Court Hotel last week.  

Students in four local post-primary schools are to benefit from access to high-speed broadband as part of a new Government project.