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Westmeath has enough salt to treat the county’s priority routes 25 times this winter, with access to further supplies if needed.

The move of the switchboard for Athlone Town Council to Mullingar in recent weeks has led to fears among councillors that the council’s services are slowly being moved to Mullingar.

Work to expand Castledaly Graveyard is to commence in the coming weeks, councillors learned this week, after they raised concern about the lack of space in both Castledaly and Dunegan graveyards.

Road safety in five south Westmeath towns and villages is to benefit from an extension of the speed limit territories within each of them, it was revealed this week (October 25).

Despite its efficient work at collecting overdue rates, councillors at this week’s Athlone Town Council meeting were furious that an outside agency is being used to get in the funds.

While the establishment of a cycleway in the Athlone-Mullingar rail corridor will not jeopardise any future plans to reopen the rail line, if the railway does reopen at any stage the cycleway will have to be moved.

Nimbyism and the first party-political spat of next year’s local elections dominated the meeting to decide the siting of the long-awaited playground for Tyrrellspass earlier this week.

There was a conflict of opinion between the executive and council members on the issue of casual trading at this week’s meeting of the Athlone Area committee.

Moate councillors are calling for the town’s playground to be moved from its Clara Road location to a more suitable location for children.

Construction on the realignment of Garrycastle Bridge is expected to start early next year after the council received formal approval for the project this week.