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A lack of playing pitches, playgrounds, and youth facilities is one of the most pressing social problems on the city’s east side and needs to be taken seriously by the Galway City Council.

Charlestown Library

A new report suggests that many older people are experiencing real hardship during Ireland’s recession, but that this remains largely hidden from public view. This suggests caution is necessary when interpreting official statistics, which show deprivation and poverty rates for pensioner households to be at an all-time low.

Leading figures from the fields of family law, child and family research, human rights, sociology, consumer protection will attend this year’s Business and Professional Women’s Club’s national conference in Galway.

The question of whether Irish legislation is sufficiently robust to protect families will be one of the topics discussed by the chairman of the Adoption Authority, Geoffrey Shannon at the upcoming BPW National Conference on the Family.

The Carlow/Kilkenny Champions for Older People team will host its third public information day next Tuesday, September 30 to coincide with National Positive Ageing Week, which runs from September 26 to October 4.

You’ve gotta hand it to the 10,000 senior citizens who used their free travel passes to get to Dublin yesterday, in order to protest outside the Dáil as a result of the medical card fiasco.

Westmeath Volunteer Centre in partnership with Age Action Ireland are piloting a Care and Repair Service in Moate and the surrounding area.