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A local councillor has criticised the Government’s policy of continued recentralisation and called it an “absolute joke”.

The final budget for Mullingar Town Council was adopted this week, November 26, and will see an average charge of just €116 levied upon the town’s 721 ratepayers, down from €148 last year.

A proposed museum to celebrate Niall Horan and Joe Dolan has received a lukewarm reception from Mullingar Area councillors.

The first shock in the race for next year’s council elections came to light yesterday (Thursday) with the news that Fine Gael’s Ruth Illingworth is to step away from Mullingar politics for good.

More than €211,000 will be spent on private roads and cul-de-sacs in Westmeath as part of a controversial initiative announced earlier this year.

Just 24 hours after Westmeath’s chief fire officer outlined a plan to streamline fire services in the county, councillors hit out, fearing job losses and a risk to health and safety.

The first draft of the next local area plan for Mullingar, which will regulate and guide planning for the town up to 2020, went on public display this week.

Westmeath County Council has confirmed that it has no current plans to ask people applying for student grants whether or not they have paid the household charge.

Civic apathy continues to be an obstacle to proposed improvements in estate safety after it was revealed that nobody turned up to a meeting on the issue.

On the day the abolition of town councils was to be discussed by the Cabinet, a Mullingar councillor suggested adopting a piece of technology that could speed up the council’s own demise.