http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/aroundthecounty/ Latest from the online edition en-gb Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:18:14 +0000 Copyright (C) 2010 Clyde and Forth Press Ltd http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/feeds/ 78 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/furniture/wme_logo_500x75.png http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/aroundthecounty/ The Midland American Auto Club is expecting a turnout of at least five thousand for its annual American Car, Truck, and Bike Show at Kilbeggan on September 11 and 12. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999638-five-thousand-expected-at-usa-auto-show/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999638-five-thousand-expected-at-usa-auto-show/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News A Westmeath mum has raised a staggering €3,400 for the “Make-A-Wish” foundation and hopes the money will offer a seriously ill child and their family the same hope the foundation gave her family. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999659-fundraising-for-wishes/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999659-fundraising-for-wishes/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News Midlands Simon Community helps people to move out of homelessness by providing a range of services and supports from Emergency Accommodation, supporting people to source a home, assisting people to move into their new home and ongoing supports to enable people maintain their new home, and move out of homelessness. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999656-midlands-simon-community-moves-to-help-homeless/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999656-midlands-simon-community-moves-to-help-homeless/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News Multyfarnham’s Mary Daly showed Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan she was up to speed with her computer skills at the launch of a new website for Active Retirement Ireland http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999651-multy-resident-up-to-speed-with-technology/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999651-multy-resident-up-to-speed-with-technology/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News Gardaí in Mullingar continue to investigate the upsurge in burglaries involving copper wire after two reels of copper, valued at €10,000, were stolen from the Lynn Industrial Estate on Thursday. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999647-10k-of-copper-wire-stolen/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999647-10k-of-copper-wire-stolen/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News Workers in the sixties destroyed a mill wheel http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999645-council-damage-to-fore-recalled-by-local-historian-/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999645-council-damage-to-fore-recalled-by-local-historian-/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News The Mullingar and District Gardening Club Annual Flower Show took place on Sunday last at O’Meara’s Pavillion, Gaybrook, Mullingar. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999640-standards-high-at-sundrenched-flower-show/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999640-standards-high-at-sundrenched-flower-show/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 News An additional 200 objections have been made to the proposed Galetech windfarm, in the wake of the firm’s submission of further information, and revised plans, to Westmeath County Council. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999666-over-500-now-against-wind-farm-plan/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999666-over-500-now-against-wind-farm-plan/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Gardaí are investigating the circumstances of an incident in the Killucan area last week, in which an elderly man was robbed and terrorised in his own home. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999663-killucan-man-robbed-and-terrorised-in-own-home/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/09/01/3999663-killucan-man-robbed-and-terrorised-in-own-home/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News The tragic death of local farmer Eddie Phillips in an accident on his own land, has left not just his own family, but an entire community, in shock. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999508-community-shocked-by-tragic-farm-death/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999508-community-shocked-by-tragic-farm-death/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Over the last few weeks Presentation Sisters, Martha Clarke and Assumpta Guinan have been keeping in close contact with their fellow nuns in flood stricken Pakistan, where both women have worked for many years. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999501-presentation-sisters-appeal-for-help-for-pakistan/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999501-presentation-sisters-appeal-for-help-for-pakistan/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News December 31 is the date signalled for the proposed takeover of Kilbeggan Distillery Museum by Cooley - the company that produces Kilbeggan whiskey, it emerged at a meeting held in the distillery on Monday night last. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999499-december-date-likely-for-decision-on-kilbeggan-museum/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999499-december-date-likely-for-decision-on-kilbeggan-museum/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Gardaí in Mullingar are investigating two burglaries of copper piping which took place over the weekend, in which forty bales valued at €3,000 were stolen from one premises at Lynn Industrial Estate over the weekend. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999495-cops-on-the-trail-of-copper-thieves/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999495-cops-on-the-trail-of-copper-thieves/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Fifty years ago, Peggy Scally watched as her husband Tom left Ireland as part of the “pathfinders”, a pioneering group of Irish soldiers who started a five-decades old tradition of Irish peacekeeping missions overseas. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999494-peggys-husband-was-one-of-irelands-first-in-the-congo/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999494-peggys-husband-was-one-of-irelands-first-in-the-congo/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Two events are to be held in Westmeath in September, aimed at matching up volunteers with not-for-profit groups who could do with a hand out. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999492-volunteer-expo-to-match-charities-with-workers/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999492-volunteer-expo-to-match-charities-with-workers/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News Mullingar Credit Union has said that it is experiencing a high volume of loan applications from students hoping to go into third level education this year. In the last few weeks it has been reported nationally that both students and their parents are turning to credit unions across the country to help finance studies and in Mullingar alone the numbers of applications have gone up by 25 per cent since last year. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999486-strapped-students-seeking/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999486-strapped-students-seeking/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News In Kilbeggan on Wednesday morning, the most common reaction to their Leaving Cert results from most pupils was surprise. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999473-smiles-in-the-sunshine-for-kilbeggan-students/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/25/3999473-smiles-in-the-sunshine-for-kilbeggan-students/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 News A 29 year old Westmeath man has been killed in a tragic motorcycling accident in Australia, which took place on Saturday morning last, August 14. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999412-29-year-old-dysart-man-dies-in-australian-accident/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999412-29-year-old-dysart-man-dies-in-australian-accident/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News On Saturday September 4 professional models from across the country will join with us ordinary folk to put on a fashion show in aid of the flood victims of Pakistan. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999399-mullingar-leads-the-way-with-fashion-aid/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999399-mullingar-leads-the-way-with-fashion-aid/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News The local group running the museum at Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan have announced to staff that they have entered into negotiations with Cooley Distillers to take over and run the museum. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999395-committee-to-ask-cooley-to-take-over-kilbeggan-museum/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999395-committee-to-ask-cooley-to-take-over-kilbeggan-museum/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News On July 7, 25 year old Paul Moran from Multyfarnham got up on a bicycle in Boston, and began the first leg of his cycle all the way across America - to San Francisco – a journey of almost 3,000 miles. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999394-pauls-usa-coast-to-coast-bike-trip-is-to-help-cancer-society/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999394-pauls-usa-coast-to-coast-bike-trip-is-to-help-cancer-society/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News Rosemount priest Fr Tony Gavin is no fan of heights. Despite this, he will soon be dropped from the sky at an altitude of 13,000 feet. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999317-rosemount-priest-gearing-up-to-do-parachute-jump/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999317-rosemount-priest-gearing-up-to-do-parachute-jump/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News Two stately homes in North Westmeath - and the faces of a lot of local people - are to feature in a full-length film expected to be released early next year. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999316-tullynally-and-turbotstown-used-in-uk-film/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999316-tullynally-and-turbotstown-used-in-uk-film/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News A survey carried out over this Summer has found that Westmeath is the third most expensive county in Ireland in which to rent a holiday home. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999304-westmeath-not-just-for-the-wealthy/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/18/3999304-westmeath-not-just-for-the-wealthy/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News Over the past few months, fifteen young priests from Asia, Africa and elsewhere in Europe made Ireland their home, and specifically the Diocese of Meath. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/17/3999315-visiting-priests-impressed-by-piety-in-country/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/08/17/3999315-visiting-priests-impressed-by-piety-in-country/ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0100 News