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Joe Walls was in his late thirties when he started to get dizzy spells. He felt exhausted as well. He was doing a FAS course at the time and when he came home in the evening he would be “incredibly tired” and only able to “crash out in front of the television”.

There has been a significant increase in the number of new breast cancer cases diagnosed at the Symptomatic Breast Unit at Galway University Hospitals, according to a new report, just launched.

Mayo General Hospital is one of the best performing hospitals in the country when it comes to the controversial issue of overcrowding.

There is growing concern that the accident and emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe may have to close during night time hours because of a serious shortage of doctors.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has slammed University Hospital Galway’s poor rating in the HSE’s latest league tables as “embarrassing”.

Student nurses are threatening to strike next month over plans to introduce “savage” pay cuts which they say will amount to them working for “slave” wages.

University College Hospital in Galway has been named and shamed as the worst performing hospital in the country, failing terribly in areas such as access to services for patients as well as the use of beds and other resources.

Some 340 people who were screened for hepatitis C in the west - after it emerged they may have been treated by a healthcare worker infected with the virus - have tested negative.

A local patients’ advocate has warned that the hepatitis C scare - which has resulted in more than 450 former public hospital patients being offered screening after it emerged they may have been treated by a surgeon infected by the virus - may further rock public confidence in an “already shaky” HSE led health service.

During the good weather, many more children are outside playing on farms and in gardens so it is important to be more careful when taking off in your car or driving your tractor.