A Labour councillor from the Midlands has made more representations to the Revenue than any other politician over the past five years.

Storm Frank will be in full flow today and tomorrow as forecasters warn that the rest of the week will be a washout with storms, severe flooding and high winds expected.

Fine Gael's Simon Harris said that flood forecasting and "community resilience" need to be looked at where solutions to floods "don't exist".

Paddy Grehan and Paul Fleming manned the large diesel-powered water pump at a newly built dam beside The Park estate. “We’re up all night,” Paul said. “If that pump breaks down, we are gone,” he said.

Around 90 families in Co Westmeath are facing the prospect of flooded homes as the River Shannon continues to rise in Athlone.

The owners of a dog killed in a “savage” attack in a local authority-operated dog shelter have demanded an investigation into the incident.

Laurence and Martina Hayes, the couple killed in Friday’s terror attack in Tunisia, had put down roots in the very heart of Athlone.

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has moved to break the deadlock over a key stage of a coast-to-coast cycleway.

Private nursing home residents cannot complain to watchdog while those in public nursing homes can

At pop up repair cafés, you can grab a coffee and learn how to fix household goods, writes Noel Baker.

Gardaí are still investigating the actions of a local authority employee who was sacked for the inappropriate use of a purchase card.

A local election candidate caught up in a littering row after a woman

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The Department of the Environment has written to all county and city managers giving updated details of the sums deducted from their funding as a result of the non-payment of the €100 household charge.

Westmeath can become Ireland’s number one bioenergy region on foot of a ‘BioRegions’ project driven by Westmeath Community Development and supported by rural and farmer groups, according to Duncan Stewart.

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The prospect of parts of the Midlands being turned into a “Shanghai on the Shannon” has been greeted positively in a region considered one of the country’s unemployment blackspots.

An Taisce, the National Trust, has expressed its concern at the granting of planning permission for the first phase of the Euro Chinese Trading Hub in Co. Westmeath.

The tight-knit community of Rindoon Park and Hazelwood in Athlone was last night coming to terms with the tragic drowning of two-year-old Liam Keogh.

For two years, Seamus Boland of Irish Rural Link was like a broken record.

Westmeath council has said it had no responsibility “from a public safety perspective” for the unfinished housing estate in Athlone where a two-year-old boy drowned.

Council chiefs have been ordered to report on the state of a ghost estate where a two-year-old boy drowned yesterday.

Gardaí and the HSE are continuing to investigate the death of a toddler on an unfinished housing estate in Athlone yesterday.

Two separate investigations were launched after a toddler drowned in a pool of water on a ghost estate.

A toddler has drowned in a small pool of water in a ghost estate, gardaí have confirmed.

Westmeath County Council has granted planning permission for a Chinese Hub in Athlone.

IN what he described as one of the worst cases of overzealous prosecutions he had ever seen, a judge has ordered a county council to pay €750 to its local Tidy Towns committee.

AFTER a roller coaster of a day which saw them race from council meeting to council meeting, Senator David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon eventually obtained four council nominations each to ensure their place in the race to the Áras.

Dana Rosemary Scallon has received her fourth and final nomination from Offaly County Council.

TWO Athlone, Co Westmeath, developers are promoting a massive international trade centre involving a total investment of €1.4 billion and with the potential to create 1,500 jobs in the first phase of development.

Westmeath County Council is planning to call the newest bridge in Mullingar the Joe Dolan Memorial Bridge, it has emerged.

Plans are underway for a World Trade Centre-type hub for Chinese industry in Westmeath, with the potential to create up to 10,000 jobs over five years.

DEVELOPERS owed €800 million to cash-strapped local authorities in overdue levies at the end of 2008.

THE cost of processing student grants ranges from just €70 to almost €500 per application, according to figures from nearly half of the grant-awarding bodies.

Waterways Ireland has said that all of the Shannon is now in flood and that unprecedented levels of water have been recorded.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to unveil a life-size bronze statue of the late Joe Dolan in the singer's home town later today.

SLIGO County Council provides the best planning service and Clare the worst, according to a study.

Westmeath County Council is to open the book of condolence for the late Joe Dolan who died yesterday.