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News from Westmeath

Electronic devices and documents have been seized in connection with the discovery of cocaine with an estimated value of over €4m off the coast of Co Donegal last year.
28 March 2024
Athenians are choking in clouds of thick dust blown in from the Sahara along with unseasonably warm weather, weather forecasters and doctors have warned.
28 March 2024
Denise O'Sullivan returns from injury as Eileen Gleeson revealed her Republic of Ireland squad for next month's opening set of Women's Euro 2025 qualifying fixtures against France and England.
28 March 2024
Ryanair group chief executive Michael O'Leary said today that while he is happy with the management changes Boeing has made at production level, he would prefer if CEO Dave Calhoun stayed on to complete the planemaker's turnaround.
28 March 2024
Four people have been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack at a hotel earmarked for asylum seekers in Co Galway last December.
28 March 2024
The new EU migration pact, which the Government has decided to opt in to, has been criticised by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF).
28 March 2024
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has said the new strategy 'Moving Together' is about making transport work for everyone and it is "not anti-motorist or cars".
28 March 2024
A man in his 20s has died following a crash between a car and a lorry in Co Roscommon.
28 March 2024
Tributes have been paid to the mother and her two daughters who died in a road traffic collision near Claremorris, Co Mayo, on Tuesday.
28 March 2024
Three people, including a boy, have been wounded in a gun attack that targeted a school bus near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, medics and the army there said.
28 March 2024
Four people, including a teenage girl, have been killed and at least five injured after a man went on a stabbing spree at multiple addresses in the US state of Illinois, police have said.
28 March 2024
Chancellor of University of Limerick Brigid Laffan will address staff at the college later today as the controversy sparked by the purchase of 20 homes in a nearby housing estate continues to grow.
28 March 2024
Russia may have used a new type of guided bomb in airstrikes on the north eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that killed at least one person, local officials said.
28 March 2024
Inflation in Ireland has fallen significantly in recent months, but a number of cost increases will weigh on consumers from next Monday.
28 March 2024
A recruitment programme called Teach First has been used to tackle a shortage of teachers in Britain.
28 March 2024
Unions have pushed back against complaints from businesses about rising labour costs arising from a series of Government policy changes aimed at improving conditions for workers.
28 March 2024
The bodies of two men have been recovered from the water after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore when a freight ship crashed into it, officials have said.
28 March 2024
The founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is set to be sentenced following his conviction in one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history.
28 March 2024
An inquest has heard how a patient who died at University Hospital Limerick had fallen from a trolley in the busy emergency department and may have been dead for over an hour before staff found him on the floor.
27 March 2024
The Cabinet has agreed a new comprehensive accommodation strategy for International Protection applicants, which seeks to address the current shortfall in beds while reforming the system over the longer term.
27 March 2024