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This week marked the relaunch of Athlone’s community policing unit, a development which will ensure more visibility of local gardai on the town’s thoroughfares and allow for continuous integration with numerous representative organisations within the district.

Ireland’s new company start-up levels reached the highest numbers on record in 2021, according to the latest figures from credit risk analyst CRIFVision-net.

As we approach the midpoint of 2021, and with the summer Dáil recess approaching, now is a good time to take stock of the political year to date.

Setting hard targets on the phasing out of pandemic income and business supports is “a bad idea”, and the Government needs to adopt a more “flexible and long term stance”, rather than adopting “a hawkish and hard-line approach”.

The Family Centre counselling service continues to be available to the public primarily online or over the phone, with only limited capacity to meet people face to face adhering strictly to the current Government guidelines.

Stephen Cooke chuckles when it is put to him that setting up a new business during a pandemic could be deemed crazy, creative or courageous. “A bit of everything, a mix of those things anyways,” he laughs.

There were 5,107 cases of Covid-19 in the county up to the end of January and since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 3,247 of those coming in January alone.

Q: With the year coming to an end, I would like to update my CV for next year. I understand there have been a lot of changes in the market due to the pandemic. I am wondering what else is now expected from candidates, and how any new skills I have acquired might be included in my CV? (BC, email).

The level of traffic throughout Ireland is returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has said.

Athlone Town Mayor, Cllr. Aengus O’Rourke, has called upon the Government to inject further stimulus into the economy, noting the need for further grant initiatives as the local business community strives to recover from the detrimental impact of COVID-19.