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There were sighs of relief across Ballinahown this week as the boil water notice which has been in place in the village since August was finally lifted.

Two pre-school children had wandered, unnoticed, out of the unlocked door of a Galway creche and were only returned safely after being picked up by a passer-by. This is the nightmare parents fear but is the reality unearthed by a Health Services Executive investigation

Apart from ringing in the New Year’s a number of Kilkenny families had cause to celebrate even more with the birth of eight new babies, five boys and three girls, in the early hours of New Year’s Day at Kilkenny’s St Luke’s General Hospital.

Speaking at a Health Services Executive (South) forum meeting in Cork, Thomastown Councillor Michael O’Brien accused the HSE of dragging its feet on the provision of the planned Thomastown Primary Health Centre.

Crowds gathered at Mullingar Parish Community Centre on Wednesday this week to celebrate the launch of Mullingar Communities Together (MCT).

Kilkenny's war against drugs has been given extra help in the form of improved health services for addicts.

Road safety is one of the biggest challenges we face in Westmeath, according to council chairman Cllr Joe Whelan, who launched the county’s Road Safety Strategy on Monday this week.

At an event in the Croke Park Conference Centre this week, Minister Aine Brady, newly appointed Minister of State for Older People and Health Promotion, awarded a first place prize to winning students Emma Horan, Sinead Mangan, and Roisin McEvoy and second place prize to student Khansa Akhtar, all from St Angela’s National School, Castlebar, at the inaugural Irish Cancer Society competition.

Ambulance services have been instructed not to bring patients to the A&E department at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, after the hospital was taken off-call yesterday due to overcrowding.

As part of its winter initiative, the Health Services Executive (HSE) is highlighting a series of measures which members of the public can take to protect their health and wellbeing during the adverse weather conditions.