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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.
In September 2022, funding became available from Westmeath County Council to convert the old Streamstown railway station on the trail to a café. [31] A community development organisation in Kilbeggan, County Westmeath plans to connect the Greenway to the Offaly Cycleways at Kilbeggan with a greenway to Tullamore, County Offaly. [32]
In September, two businessmen Edward Reilly and John Foy, both from Mullingar, attended a meeting with Westmeath County Council regarding changing the use of the convent school to a hotel and for the construction of an additional 22 houses on the site and they were unanimously given planning permission but the housing development was objected.
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
An Act for the division of Meath into two shires (referred to in the modern Irish Statute Book as the Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543) (34 Hen.8. c. 1 (I)) was an act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1542 which resulted in the division of County Meath, shired in 1297, into the counties of Meath and Westmeath.
All these lines (including the Cavan and Leitrim Railway) were closed by 1960. The (GNR) Virginia Road Station, from 1863 to 1958 serviced the Drogheda and Navan extension route to Kells and Oldcastle. Cooperation between the Cavan and Westmeath county councils is striving to integrate this into the national and regional development plan.
The county board is also responsible for the Westmeath county teams. ... Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion", [5] ...