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In an effort to preserve water levels in Lough Owel because of the very dry spring, Waterways Ireland has closed the Royal Canal for navigation for the immediate future.

Westmeath County Council has been successful in securing an 80 per cent grant of €25,000 from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for the Mullingar Wellness Activity Route project.

The Destination Sport-Mullingar project has scooped a top national award in this year’s Local Government Awards.

A clean-up morning takes place in Mullingar this Saturday August 6 from 10am til noon, and all are welcome to come along and take part in making their town a better place to live and work.

The Mullingar Chamber of Commerce, in association with Westmeath County Council and Waterways Ireland, are hosting Mullingar’s first ever Royal Duck Derby, to celebrate the wonderful works carried out on the canal over the past number of years.

There is disappointment in Mullingar at the latest Irish Businesses Against Litter (IBAL) rankings, which branded the town ‘moderately littered’ and was strongly critical of littering in the vicinity of the canal.

After a gap of 55 years, the unromantically named “Barge No3” will take up where the “Hark” left off, and on September 30 become the first vessel in over half a century to navigate the Royal Canal all the way to the Shannon.

Westmeath County Council marked further progress this week in the development of cycleways around Mullingar when it opened the newest phase of the town’s cycleways on the Royal Canal between Harbour Bridge and the Dublin Bridge. The ceremony was performed on Friday June 4 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council as part of the Active Travel Mullingar Project.

The new €11.4m Mullingar sewerage improvement scheme came online this week, two months ahead of schedule, and will now tie in with the recently completed €28.4m treatment plant in Clonmore.

The Springfield Tunnel, which had been closed to facilitate the construction of the Mullingar Sewerage Improvement Scheme, was reopened this week in the presence of councillors and members of the local community.