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An inquest into the death of a Galway woman took place a year after her passing without her next-of-kin being informed, it was claimed this week.

The coroner for south Mayo, John O’Dwyer, will open coroner’s inquests into the deaths of four people murdered in Mayo last year.

The Coroner for South Mayo, John O’Dwyer, made a number of recommendations for home births this week following an inquest into a tragic case where a baby was still born after complications arose during a home birth.

Mayor of Galway city Padraig Conneely has vowed that the estimated 2,400 customers in receipt of waivers for the city council refuse service will be protected until at least December 2015, as it will be a condition of the tendering process seeking a private operator to take over the service.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Michelle Mulherin, has welcomed the passing of the Construction Contracts’ Bill which delivers on the Programme for Government commitment to introduce new legislation to protect all small building subcontractors denied payments from bigger companies.

The chairman of the HSE’s clinical review team, set up to examine the death of Savita Halappanavar, was to hold a meeting with her husband’s representatives yesterday afternoon, the first such meeting since the conclusion of an eight-day coronor’s inquest.

The family of the late Evelyn Flanagan have this week welcomed the acknowledgement of liability from the HSE in relation to her death almost five years ago in Mayo General Hospital. High Court proceedings had been issued by the late Mrs Flanagan’s family following the decision of the coroner’s inquest in 2009 that she had died as a result of medical misadventure.

The mother of a Mullingar teenager killed in a car accident in 2006 has said Wednesday’s inquest has not brought closure to her family.

The events which led to the tragic deaths of two women, one a Galway native, in a head-on collission on the M6 last summer was described as a nightmare during an inquest at Offaly Coroner’s Court this week.