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Tyrrellspass will have to wait until March 2013 to look for council funding towards their St Patrick’s Day parade, as it emerged that there is no funding set aside for the village’s festival this year.

Westmeath’s Tidy Towns winners received their awards at a prizegiving ceremony in Co Louth last Friday.

A three day festival celebrating the heritage of Tyrrellspass organised by Tyrrellspass Festival Committee has won the top award for Best Overall Event during National Heritage Week 2011. The event also won the award for Best Interactive Event.

The pretty village of Ballinahown has once again topped the Tidy Towns list in Westmeath for the seventh year in a row.

It’s semi-final time in the Westmeath senior and intermediate football championship with double headers scheduled for Cusack Park on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

This weekend sees the quarter-finals of the Westmeath senior football championship down for decision. Cusack Park will host a double header on Sunday evening with the prize on offer a place in the semi final where Garrycastle and St Loman’s lie in wait.

The pretty village of Tyrrellspass is to be steeped in culture next weekend, as the Tyrrellspass Festival takes over the town from August 26 to 28.

Bank holiday weekend or not, eight teams go to post in round four of the Shay Murtagh senior football championship. Garrycastle have already secured their place in the semi-final thanks to their 4-13 to 1-8 win over Bunbrosna last Sunday.

The Shay Murtagh Westmeath senior football championship is in full swing with all but two clubs looking forward to their second championship outing this weekend. Athlone and Garrycastle both sat out the opening weekend of action last weekend but face Bunbrosna and The Downs respectively this weekend. They will then face each other in a standalone fixture on Sunday May 15.

An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign is well underway in County Westmeath with hundreds of groups organising clean-up events throughout the county during April. The National Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative organised by An Taisce and funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.