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The Tony Parker Foundation is to provide its 100th defibrillator to a location in the centre of Athlone, councillors were informed at November’s meeting of the Athlone Municipal District.

Work at St Vincent’s Care Centre is on schedule for completion and the centre should be operational by March 2017.

Almost 300 Junior Cert students from six local secondary schools descended on Buccaneers’ clubhouse last Wednesday night, September 14, for an alcohol-free disco in celebration of their results.

Dredging the River Shannon may have provided “some relief” but would not have prevented the flooding event Athlone experienced at the end of last year, according to John Martyn, head of the Office of Public Works Flood Risk Assessment and Management Section.

Local Fine Gael councillor John Dolan has called on the local authority to apply for a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for O’Neill’s pub site on Mardyke Street.

A new car park with the capacity to provide 50 spaces is to be rolled out in Moate shortly in an effort to alleviate parking issues and boost local business. Added to this, a two-hour restricted free parking area is also to be piloted in the centre of the town.

Councillors at Monday’s meeting of the Athlone Municipal District unanimously rejected Fáilte Ireland’s decision to maintain Athlone’s tourist office in its current location in Athlone Castle.