Mullingar Pool Action Group

There has been lots of local media coverage this past week by Westmeath Topic and Westmeath Examiner on the wonderful news that €7.5 million funding has been awarded towards the development of Mullingar Regional Sport Centre by Minister James Browne 💶💶.

The significance of this funding cannot be understated and will help progress this project to shovel ready status 🏗️.

This facility will be an incredible asset to our town and provide a modern, fit for purpose swimming pool that will have the capacity and facilities to cater for everyone in our community 🏊🏼‍♀️🏊‍♂️.

We will continue to work together as a group and with Westmeath County Council and our locals TDs Robert Troy TD , Peter Burke TD and councillors to help bring this fantastic amenity to fruition .

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Mullingar Pool Action Group held a meeting in the Greville Arms Hotel earlier this week.

Westmeath County Council approved the Part 8 planning permission for the Mullingar Regional Sports Complex at Blackhall last October . The plans include an 8-lane 25-meter swimming pool, a 20-meter teaching pool with a splash pad, a 12-court sports hall, and a state-of-the-art gym.

It is absolutely crucial that significant funding is secured to drive this project forward. It is imperative that this facility is delivered in a timely manner as the current public swimming pool can not accommodate the rapidly expanding population of Mullingar.

We will continue to work with WCC, our local politicians and wider community to help progress this project and make this vision a reality.

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Mullingar Pool Action Group were represented by vice chairperson Robert Keane on Newstalk radio this afternoon 📻.

Robert discussed the proposed new swimming pool for Mullingar and the critical need for funding to facilitate this project moving forward and bring this much needed new swimming pool to reality 💶.

Listen from 16.05 minutes.

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The Irish Times contains an interesting article today on the decline of public swimming pools in Ireland.

“A report published by Swim Ireland last December said that at least a quarter of the swimming pools in the State are more than 35 years old and coming to the end of their lifespan.”

The current Mullingar public swimming pool has been in operation since the early 1970’s and continues to serve our community brilliantly as it has done over the last 50+ years.

However the town’s population and needs have grown significantly since then and the proposed development of the new fit for purpose swimming pool as part of the new Mullingar Regional Sports Centre in Blackhall will be a much welcome and necessary addition to the community.

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Dead pools: Is a spate of closures sinking the Government’s policies on healthy living? Swim Ireland says the ‘shocking’ reality is 57% of swimming pools in the State are located in hotels