Westmeath County Council

Westmeath County Council: Athlone, Kinnegad, Moate, Mullingar local electoral areas

Plans for €1bn Westmeath data centre stalled

Up to 10 third-party appeals lodged

Tue Jul 07 2026 - 15:55

‘A kind, caring, beautiful soul’: Tributes paid to three Irish people killed in Spain car crash

Minute’s silence heald at Westmeath County Council meeting in memory of Mullingar locals

Mon Jun 29 2026 - 21:55

People who work should get priority for social housing, says Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy

Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin says there is ‘no legal basis’ for Minister of State’s suggestion

Mon Sept 22 2025 - 16:52

More than 50% of septic tanks fail inspection tests in 2024

Waste problem placing homeowners’ health and environment at risk, says Environmental Protection Agency

Tue May 13 2025 - 23:55

Boy (4) who died after being struck by car in Mullingar was riding scooter

Boy celebrated his fourth birthday on Saturday

Tue Apr 22 2025 - 17:40

Plan to house 1,000 male asylum seekers on Athlone site subject of High Court challenge

Councillor Paul Hogan’s case is supported by four other Athlone-based representatives

Mon Dec 02 2024 - 20:11

Top cops use Dublin Marathon as a dry run for Garda commissioner job

Plus: Love/Hate duo making a fact-based Dublin crime film; secrecy around Micheál Martin’s meeting with Apple; and Robert Troy’s support for Michael O’Leary’s slurry

Sun Nov 03 2024 - 06:00

Local Elections: Westmeath County Council results

Sinn Féin and Independents make gains with first preference haul of Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran a talking point

Mon Jun 10 2024 - 22:37

‘I admire anyone who keeps going in the face of adversity’

Mullingar crime writer has published a dozen novels and sold in excess of two million copies

Sat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00

Westmeath councillors approve development of Ireland’s largest film studio in Mullingar

Hammerlake Studios will boast 460,000 sq ft of studio space and an estimated minimum 1,000 jobs, according to its developers

Mon Sept 19 2022 - 20:42

Fate of planned Mullingar film studio in hands of councillors

Construction of Hammerlake with 11 sound studios needs vote of approval to contravene Westmeath county plan

Tue Jul 19 2022 - 05:00

‘It’s important to have women in the room where the decisions are being made’

Women councillors on gender imbalance in local politics and why this has to change

Sat Feb 05 2022 - 00:00

Ashling Murphy: People gather for vigils around world

Vigils for 23-year-old have taken place in London, Edinburgh, New York, Dubai and Brisbane

Sun Jan 16 2022 - 17:27

Sterne reminder – Sean Byrne on Tristram Shandy and Mullingar

An Irishman’s Diary

Sun Jul 18 2021 - 19:01

New scheme aims to help older people stay in their own homes

Programme designed to avoid premature admissions to long-term residential care

Tue Jul 13 2021 - 10:25

Plans to fast-track 576 new homes in Athlone get green light

€182m scheme in Westmeath will see the delivery of 174 social housing units

Wed Jun 16 2021 - 18:44

My first year as an ex-TD: ‘I looked for jobs, but I didn’t make the grade’

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran, Ruth Coppinger and Noel Rock on losing their Dáil seats in 2020

Sat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00

Supreme Court dismisses appeal over refusal to decide status of peat extraction

Friends of the Irish Environment challenged An Bord Pleanála over planning permission

Thu Apr 23 2020 - 15:33

Storm Jorge set to bring flooding, falling trees and power outages

Status red, the highest level warning, issued for Clare and Galway as winds batter country

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 02:00

Clare houses surrounded by water evacuated as rainfall warning

Residents taken from Springfield in Co Clare while other counties brace for floods

Sun Feb 23 2020 - 15:07

Uncovering Ireland’s lost field names before it’s too late

Many names come from a place’s attributes, while the origins of others are unknowable

Sat Feb 22 2020 - 05:00

Fears of flooding increase as wind and rain warning issued

Shannon, Moy, Corrib catchment areas face more heavy downpours in coming days

Fri Feb 21 2020 - 14:55

Bill to tackle online abuse against politicians ‘should be fast-tracked’

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran worried about effect on young people entering politics

Sun Feb 09 2020 - 22:35

Oil spill in river Shannon near Athlone kills birds and fish

Westmeath County Council investigating source of ‘very serious’ pollution

Mon Aug 12 2019 - 18:30

Child homelessness in midlands more than triples in two years

Number of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of April

Mon Jun 17 2019 - 03:00

Student who tripped on footpath settles case for €41,000

Junior Cert student Stephen Cassidy fractured ankle in fall near his Athlone home

Wed Apr 10 2019 - 16:03

€138m whiskey maturation development gets the go-ahead

Permission granted on appeal for project covering 12 maturation warehouses

Wed Dec 19 2018 - 13:39

Peat harvesting firms refused appeal of planning permission ruling

Companies say 2013 decision could affect 11,000 jobs and bring industry to ‘a standstill’

Fri Dec 07 2018 - 12:43

More than 3,600 local authority homes vacant at end of 2017

Audit report shows councils take on average over seven months to re-let houses

Mon Oct 22 2018 - 10:48

Journalist Gemma O’Doherty running for ‘the wrong house’, councillors suggest

Prospective presidential candidate says she has no intention of standing for Oireachtas

Tue Aug 28 2018 - 15:37

Mullingar site zoned for mixed-use on sale for over €1.8m

Site on 4.23 acres without planning permission was formerly part of larger development

Wed May 02 2018 - 00:15

Judge upholds planning board decision on peat extraction works

Friends of the Irish Environment considering an appeal

Fri Mar 09 2018 - 16:41

The story behind Ireland's greenway success

Greenways have achieved the seemingly impossible task of convincing land owners to allow strangers on their land without any compensation – how did they manage it?

Sat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00