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Over €100,000 has been allocated following work by local communities to draw this funding under the Community Involvement Scheme (CIS).

The problem of people leaving their cars all day in one of Mullingar’s residential streets may have to be addressed by introducing parking permits.

Westmeath’s councillors see housing as the biggest challenge for 2014, with one councillor predicting a housing shortage as “an explosion that’s about to happen”.

The 2014 changes to local government will see the beginning of a move to harmonise rates across the county, but councillors fear that it will have a negative impact on business people.

A decision on where the €88,000 of dormant fund money allocated to RAPID projects in Mullingar will be spent, is to be decided “within two weeks”, it was revealed this week.

“Another downgrading of the role of the council” was the predominant reaction from councillors to the news that the role of managing third level student grants is being transferred from county councils to a new centralised system.

Attempts to have the gates of Ballyglass Cemetery left open for car access at weekends were shot down at Tuesday’s meeting of Mullingar Town Council.

It has been announced that €50,000 in funding has been secured by the RAPID committee for a new youth cafe to be opened in Spoutwell Lane, Mullingar.