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A local city councillor and former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has challenged Galway’s Government TDs to honour a commitment they gave to seek a meeting with Health Minister Dr James Reilly about the need to keep St Francis’ Nursing Home open.

Some 18,000 people have signed a petition to save St Francis public nursing home in the city from closure.

Eighteen children attended the childen’s sexual assault treatment service in the city in the first three months of this year.

John Mulholland has opened a book on candidates’ chances in the upcoming General Election, with Minister Éamon Ó Cuív the odds-on favourite to retain his seat in the poll.

The HSE was last evening attempting to contact all patients affected by potential misdiagnoses at UHG following reports of discrepancies in the work of a third pathologist who worked as a locum at the hospital in February and March 2004.

Residents of the The West are continuing to voice their concerns over the city council’s enhancement plans for the area.

A former mayor and city councillor has described as “deplorable” and “scandalous” the HSE West’s decision to stop providing lunches to clients attending a day psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the city.

Labour Cllr Tom Costello was on the end of a verbal roasting from his former party colleague Cllr Catherine Connolly this week, over his support for two controversial rezonings.

Angry councillors lashed out this week at the decision to centralise the processing of medical cards in Dublin and called for its immediate reversal.

A local city councillor is calling for the re-instatement of the health boards which were abolished in January 2005.