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Westmeath County Council (Irish: Comhairle Chontae na hIarmhí) is the local authority of County Westmeath, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The ...
In October 1989, it was speculated that a scaled down version of the initial plan may be the way forward and would get planning permission from Westmeath County Council. The initial plan had been put into "cold storage" by An Bord Pleanála following the appeal made two years earlier in 1987. [8] Interior viewed from the first floor
The Midland region of Ireland with each constituent county council highlighted. The Midland Region (coded IE063) [1] is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland.It consists of the territory of the counties of Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford.
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.
An election to all 20 seats on Westmeath County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Westmeath is divided into 4 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
In the early part of the 21st century, Westmeath County Council held its meetings in the old County Hall (now the Mullingar Arts Centre) in Mount Street. [1] It moved to more modern facilities at the new County Buildings, designed by Bucholz McEvoy, to the south of the old facilities in Mullingar in 2009. [2]
An election to all 20 seats on Westmeath County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Westmeath was divided into 4 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on using the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Pat Gallagher (born 29 March 1963) is the chief executive of Westmeath County Council and a former Labour Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Laois–Offaly from 1992 to 1997. [1] Previously a workshop manager, Gallagher contested the 1989 general election.