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Flood defences will have to be maintained throughout the Christmas holidays and possibly into the new year, Westmeath County Council has revealed.

Also recently turned one year old is Hooked on Henry Street. It’s difficult to imagine a street less imposing than Henry Street. One thin stream of traffic meandering down by a canal in any other town would be a one way system. Hooked sits among the row of terraced houses and like most of the architecture round here, it’s a building that could only be described as ordinary. But Henry Street despite its banality, has a charm of its own and a warm sense of community.

The hugely successful Golden Island shopping centre in Athlone is up for sale, and is expected to sell for around €40 million, according to reports this week.

A stand off between Mayo County Council and a voluntary housing body in Claremorris which has seen five houses left vacant for a year and a half has been described as 'disgraceful' and 'unacceptable' this week.

One of the remedies in dealing with overcrowding, and rebellious behaviour from frustrated and angry women in the workhouses during the famine years, was assisted emigration. This was done on a massive scale. Between 1848 and 1850, 4,175 women were sent direct from the workhouse system to Australia. This was in addition to the thousands already sent away assisted by landlords and other schemes to clear the land of unproductive tenants. The only cost to the individual Poor Law unions was for new clothes, and travel expenses to Plymouth, from where the girls embarked to the colony. 

GEORGE ORWELL’S first full-length book was Down and Out in Paris and London, his classic account of living on the breadline in France and England in the 1920s. More than 80 years after its publication in 1933, the book’s vivid portrayal of people struggling to survive from one day to the next has lost none of its power. Indeed, with homelessness again a headline-making issue, the book has gained fresh topicality.

Leading estate agent DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard has reported large turnouts at the latest series of open viewings for its April 24 auctions in the Radisson Blu Hotel. Billed as one of the most exciting mix of properties to come to the market in the west of Ireland for some time, the city centre based agent is three weeks into the marketing campaign and the team are delighted with the turnout so far.

Location: The Gardens, Court Devenish, Athlone, Co Westmeath

A Claremorris farmer toasted a €1 million win over champagne in National Lottery headquarters on Wednesday, just five days after the deadline passed for a separate €2.9 million jackpot to be claimed from a winning ticket purchased in the local Tesco last November.

John Quinn is offering No 52, Bowling Green, a three bedroom townhouse situated in a very central location at Bowling Green.