http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/ Latest from the online edition en-gb Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:09:25 +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/roundup/ A new committee has been formed to carry the flag for the campaign to secure a new secondary school for Kinnegad. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/12/3995404-new-committee-to-push-for-kinnegad-secondary-school/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/12/3995404-new-committee-to-push-for-kinnegad-secondary-school/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Local funeral directors in Westmeath are "greatly upset" at plans to withdraw embalming services at the Mullingar's General Hospital Mortuary, the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD has been told. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/10/3995427-undertakers-furious-as-hse-axes-embalming-facilities/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/10/3995427-undertakers-furious-as-hse-axes-embalming-facilities/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News A claim by the Irish Nurses and Midwives' Organisation (INMO) that clinical nurse specialists working for the HSE in the midlands should be paid for the time they spend on the phone at weekends to patients' relatives has failed to succeed. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/10/3995413-palliative-nurses-fail-in-bid-to-get-paid-for-out-of-hours-duties/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/10/3995413-palliative-nurses-fail-in-bid-to-get-paid-for-out-of-hours-duties/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Former Mullingar Town Council member Pat Whelan has dramatically, this evening, Sunday, announced his resignation from Fine Gael. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/07/3995381-pat-whelan-resigns-from-fine-gael/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/07/3995381-pat-whelan-resigns-from-fine-gael/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:07:46 +0000 News Fire eaters, stilt walkers and jugglers are amongst the exciting acts performing at this year's St. Patrick's day parade in Mullingar town centre, and the organisers say that there are some very innovative - and quirky - floats planned for the event. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/05/3995318-innovation-promised-for-st-patricks-day-parade/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/05/3995318-innovation-promised-for-st-patricks-day-parade/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:36:00 +0000 News New figures out this week show that between 2007 and 2008 drug use appears to have shot up in Westmeath - but the number of thefts, robberies and criminal damage fell significantly, as did the rate of drink driving. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995316-shock-garda-figures-show-massive-rise-in-drug-use-locally/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995316-shock-garda-figures-show-massive-rise-in-drug-use-locally/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000 News Some good news for the Kilbeggan area- Westmeath County Council has granted planning permission for a one-stop medical centre on the Tullamore Road in Kilbeggan. After more than a year of shouldering closures and having borne the side-effects of the bypass, the news will be welcome in a town which is in need of an economic boost. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995311-kilbeggan-to-get-stateoftheart-medical-centre-/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995311-kilbeggan-to-get-stateoftheart-medical-centre-/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000 News "What I absolutely love about living in Delvin is that if I got an Oscar on Thursday and I sold ten bullocks on Friday, they would be much more interested in the price of me bullocks than the Oscar, and I love that. "I treasure being from Delvin, I think I'd be a basket case if I wasn't because I think our industry is loopy." http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995213-well-holy-god-its-mary-mcevoy/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/03/3995213-well-holy-god-its-mary-mcevoy/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000 News On Monday of last week, Westmeath County Council chairman Fintan Cooney officiated at the inaugural Rural Housing Design Award Ceremony at the County Buildings, Mullingar. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/02/3995219-winners-of-westmeaths-first-rural-design-awards-announced/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/03/02/3995219-winners-of-westmeaths-first-rural-design-awards-announced/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:22:49 +0000 News Judge Anthony Kennedy handed down suspended sentences to all 65 defendants involved in what has become known as the Dalton Park Riots who appeared at Mullingar Circuit Court sitting in Tullamore this morning (Wednesday February 24). http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995166-dalton-park-rioters-given-suspended-sentences-/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995166-dalton-park-rioters-given-suspended-sentences-/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:18:00 +0000 News Time is of the essence for 16-year-old Mullingar girl Natasha Dyer who needs to raise €22,000 in just six weeks if she is to have a vital operation in Germany which will save her hearing. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995047-german-op-only-hope-to-save-brave-tashas-hearing/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995047-german-op-only-hope-to-save-brave-tashas-hearing/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:12:00 +0000 News The money promised to the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar for its top-of-the-league performance in terms of casemix in 2009, is still not coming this year to the hospital as a separate fund, it has emerged. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995043-hospitals-casemix-reward-to-be-part-of-budget--hse/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995043-hospitals-casemix-reward-to-be-part-of-budget--hse/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News The Bishop of Meath, Most Rev. Dr. Michael Smith, has moved to underline the importance of last week's two-day meeting between Irish bishops, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI and senior members of the Curia. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995042-diocese-awaits-popes-pastoral-letter-after-honest-rome-talks/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995042-diocese-awaits-popes-pastoral-letter-after-honest-rome-talks/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Fine Gael senator Nicky McFadden has begun hammering at a question that has annoyed staff at St. Loman's Hospital in Mullingar for some time: "where's the money gone?" http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995032-wheres-the-money-gone-mcfadden-asks-of-st-lomans-land-sale-funds/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995032-wheres-the-money-gone-mcfadden-asks-of-st-lomans-land-sale-funds/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News The Irish Cancer Society has this week revealed that 421 people in Westmeath were diagnosed with cancer in 2008, and separately, the life assurance firm Irish Life has revealed that cancer is the main cause of death and specified illness claims in Westmeath. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995024-westmeath-had-over-400-cancer-cases-in-2008/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/24/3995024-westmeath-had-over-400-cancer-cases-in-2008/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News The exact cause of death of the popular young Strabane man, Tony Kelly, who was found dead at his home in Mullingar on Monday, won't be clear until the Inquest into his death is held. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994851-murder-ruled-out-in-suspicious-mullingar-death/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994851-murder-ruled-out-in-suspicious-mullingar-death/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:57:00 +0000 News It took some time before word filtered out onto the streets of Mullingar over the course of Monday, that there had been a tragedy locally. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994846-news-of-tragic-death-was-slow-to-leak-out/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994846-news-of-tragic-death-was-slow-to-leak-out/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Close to 200 people showed up for a meeting of residents on Monday night in the Bloomfield Hotel ahead of the impending date for submissions on the proposed development of a 12 turbine Wind Farm at Gaybrook, which is due on March 4. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994841-council-may-blow-in-favour-of-wind-farm/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994841-council-may-blow-in-favour-of-wind-farm/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News A total of seven Mullingar jobs will be lost when the Halifax bank winds down its Irish operations at the end of May. The staff which are made up of full and part time employees will join hundreds of colleagues around the country as the Bank of Scotland owned operations wind down by the end of May. A total of 750 jobs will be lost at the bank's 44 branches across the country. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994835-mullingar-jobs-lost-in-halifax-closures/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994835-mullingar-jobs-lost-in-halifax-closures/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News If you want to know what the weather was like in Killucan just two and a half seconds after you've finished reading this sentence, log on to http://www.irlweather.com/wxindex.php http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994831-karl-westmeaths-own-meteorologist/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994831-karl-westmeaths-own-meteorologist/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News "My father was a farmer, my grandfather had a shop in the village. My uncles and aunts used to come and visit us, and the children of the village used to come around and we used to play and the family was very much liked in the village. If anybody wanted to know anything, they would ask my father or grandfather." http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994829-bergen-belsen-camp-was-hell-on-earth-survivor-tells-mullingar-audience/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/3994829-bergen-belsen-camp-was-hell-on-earth-survivor-tells-mullingar-audience/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Tony Kelly was a popular young man. Typical of today's young people, he had vast numbers of friends, and through his Facebook page, kept contact with pals in his native Northern Ireland; around Mullingar - and further afield as well. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/16/3994850-tributes-flow-for-man-who-touched-the-hearts-of-everyone/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/16/3994850-tributes-flow-for-man-who-touched-the-hearts-of-everyone/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000 News Dramatic footage on You Tube of the fire at Egan's garage in Castlepollard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUPmfM5O90 http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/13/3994798-castlepollard-fire-captured-on-video/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/13/3994798-castlepollard-fire-captured-on-video/ Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:46:02 +0000 News "We were in an orphanage and a pregnant girl, no more than a child herself, came up to me and said 'will you be the mother for my child'. I was numb, I had to just walk away, it was just heartbreaking." http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/10/3994653-mullingar-garda-recalls-the-heartbreak-of-haitis-poor/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/10/3994653-mullingar-garda-recalls-the-heartbreak-of-haitis-poor/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:57:00 +0000 News A reported 41 jobs are to be brought to Multyfarnham when two support organisations move their respective national headquarters to the grounds of the Franciscan Abbey at Multyfarnham. http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/10/3994659-friary-development-to-bring-jobs-boost-to-multy/ http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/10/3994659-friary-development-to-bring-jobs-boost-to-multy/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:54:00 +0000 News