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The Atrium in the County Buildings on Mount Street in Mullingar is the place to catch an exhibition of paintings by Patsy Preston, artistic director of the iconic Festival of the Fires.

A group of students from Moate Community College were ecstatic at the news that their environmental action project was one of the 70 groups across the Republic and Northern Ireland shortlisted for ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards showcase and ceremony in the Mansion House on May 22.

TY students from Moate Community College presented their action project to raise environmental awareness and make a positive contribution to their local community, to judges at ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards, Leinster ECO-Den last week.

A group of Athlone students has scooped the top prize in this year’s Westmeath Student Enterprise Awards.

Green-minded young people from three Westmeath schools - Marist College Athlone, Moate Community College, and St Patrick’s NS Mullingar - competed with schools from across Leinster at the regional Dragons’ Den-style ‘ECO-Den’ held at ECO-UNESCO’s headquarters in Dublin.

By Tríona Doherty

From horse hair and hazelnuts to ballet and biofuels, Westmeath students have been busy investigating some of the more unusual scientific questions, and will learn of their success later this evening [Friday] as the winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition are announced.

A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.

A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.