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NCBI, the national sight loss organisation, is asking for your support to help Make a Dark Day Brighter for the 4,300 people living with sight loss in Westmeath on the shortest day of the year. From its base in Athlone, NCBI provides practical and emotional support, rehabilitation services, and other training designed to help people with sight loss to live independently.

SolanoTech, a four-year-old Athlone-based software company, announced this week (August 29) that it is to create 25 vacancies for design and development engineers, and hopes to have them all employed before the end of March.

Nowadays, more and more people are experiencing financial difficulty than ever before. People have lost their jobs, been burdened with large medical bills, or fallen victim to the downturn in the economy in terms of earning potential.

Crippling local authority rates emerged as a key issue causing severe hardship for hoteliers at a recent crisis meeting held by the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF). Westmeath members expressed outrage at the exorbitant rates imposed and demanded that, due to their inability to pay in the current climate, an emergency provision should be brought in to immediately reduce rates by 30 per cent for hotels and guesthouses. This would be in line with the recent result of the revaluation of hotels and guesthouses in the South Dublin County Council area completed by the Valuation Office.