In this week's Westmeath Independent

This week's Westmeath Independent is out now and is packed with 96 pages of the best local news, sport and photography.

Some of our featured stories include:

- 8-year sentence for Moate sex assault

- 'Professional eater’ conquers Athlone breakfast challenge

- Arrests made over vicious Halloween assault

- The story of locals who were part of JFK's funeral

- An exclusive look inside the new Athlone Community College

- Council moves to declare O'Neill's pub site derelict

- Are teabags harmful to our health? Bower girls investigate

- St Brigid’s aim for a fourth Connacht football title in a row

- Moate's John Joyce wins boxing gold in Russia

- We speak to new Athlone Town boss Mick Cooke

- Your last chance to win a super Stanley Stove

- We have photos from the Athlone Round Table Gala Ball, Social photos from Viva and Karma nightclubs, Moate's Reeling in the Years event and the 50th wedding anniversary of Michael and Betsy Curtin.

All this and much more can be found in this week’s paper, which is available in local outlets and can also be accessed in the ePaper format (for more on this option, see: http://www.westmeathindependent.ie/epaper/#undefined)