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Patrick Kelly was a native of Moate, County Westmeath. He was married and a father of four sons, ranging in ages from nine years to eleven weeks at the time of his ...
Westmeath is an active sporting county. The Westmeath GAA senior football team won the Leinster Senior Football Championship, the Delaney Cup, in 2004. They also won the National Football League Division 2 in 2001, 2003 and 2008. The Westmeath senior hurling team has enjoyed much recent success winning the Christy Ring Cup in 2005, 2007 and 2010.
Kathleen "Kitty" Flynn (4 April 1926 – 11 January 2025) was an Irish historian and author from Kilbeggan, County Westmeath. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her books largely relate to the local area, particularly during times of conflict such as the 1798 Rebellion .
Colm Murray (22 March 1952 – 30 July 2013) was an Irish broadcaster, newsreader, and sports journalist, best remembered for his reports on horse racing.Employed by RTÉ from 1978 until his death in 2013 after a three-year battle with motor neurone disease, [1] Murray was the first sportscaster on the newly launched hour-long rolling news bulletin, the Six One News.
He lived at Levington Park, a country house on 200 acres (0.81 km 2) directly on Lough Owel, near Mullingar, County Westmeath, from 1972. [7] Throughout much of his life, he was known as Mike by close friends, though the origins of this nickname are unclear. [15] Donleavy died on 11 September 2017, aged 91. [16]
Johanna Catherine Greally (21 March 1924 – 15 August 1987) was an Irish writer who was detained against her will in St. Loman's Hospital in Mullingar, County Westmeath for almost two decades. [1] A well-known local poet, there is an award named after her called the Hanna Greally International Literary Awards, with the first inception being in ...
The local Gaelic football team, Tyrrellspass GAA, team won the Westmeath Senior Football Championship in 1999, 2006 and defended their title in 2007.In the 2007 Leinster Club Football Championship they progressed as far as the final, where they were beaten by the eventual All Ireland Club champions St. Vincents of Dublin.
Saint Diarmaid the Just (also known as Diermit, Dhiarmuit, Dermod, Diermedus, Diermetus, Diermitius, Diermitius) was a Catholic abbot of Inis Clothrann (Inchcleraun), Lough Ree, County Longford and of Faughalstown, County Westmeath and a famous Irish confessor of the late-sixth century.