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The man whose body was taken from the Royal Canal this week has been named locally as Delshad Mohammadi (31), a waiter in the popular Pasta Bella restaurant on Austin Friar Street.

Westmeath County Council has been successful in securing an 80 per cent grant of €25,000 from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for the Mullingar Wellness Activity Route project.

The county quietly gained its latest tourist attraction this week with the news that the 34km walking route between Kilbeggan and Mullingar - the Westmeath Way - has been formally recognised by the National Trails Office, the trekking branch of the Irish Sports Council.

The Destination Sport-Mullingar project has scooped a top national award in this year’s Local Government Awards.

Councillor Peter Burke has become the latest cathaoirleach of the Mullingar Town Council, and assumed the position at a very speedy annual meeting in the Market House in Mullingar on Tuesday evening (June 28).

The Mullingar Chamber of Commerce, in association with Westmeath County Council and Waterways Ireland, are hosting Mullingar’s first ever Royal Duck Derby, to celebrate the wonderful works carried out on the canal over the past number of years.

Westmeath County Council marked further progress this week in the development of cycleways around Mullingar when it opened the newest phase of the town’s cycleways on the Royal Canal between Harbour Bridge and the Dublin Bridge. The ceremony was performed on Friday June 4 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council as part of the Active Travel Mullingar Project.