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Mayo is not a safe place to get seriously ill this winter because the ambulance service is undergoing huge cutbacks.

A chef was fined €600 at Castlebar District Court this week for growing six large cannabis plants. Michael Lanigan, 56 Lakeview, Castlebar, Co Mayo pleaded guilty to the charges in court. In evidence the court heard that Garda Michelle Sweeney went to Lanigan’s home on foot of a warrant at 4pm on June 27 2008 where Lanigan’s partner let the garda into the house. After searching the property Garda Sweeney found six large cannabis plants growing in the attic of the house.

Cairde Chiarraí, the Kerrypeople’s Association in Galway, is holding a table quiz to raise funds for GRÁ Autism Parents Support Group.

A top international heart surgeon is jetting into Kilkenny this weekend to take part in the Chernobyl Children’s Project annual conference.

Strong emotions like depression, anxiety and anger are at the root of why so many people seek help from GPs, counsellors, psychotherapists or clinical psychologists. Despite their training many professionals are not good at dealing with the disruption that out of control emotions cause their clients. Some common forms of counselling, for example, are known to make depression and anxiety disorders worse. Conversely, the right type of counselling is known to be more effective than drug treatments for all of these conditions.

The newly opened Cleo Cosmetics in Abbeygate Street, Galway, offers customers a wide rage of natural beauty products including mineral make up, natural soaps, relaxing bath bombs, moisturisers, body scrubs, lip balms, and massage oils.

How can you boost your immunity, increase your energy levels, fight disease and delay the onset of ageing? By improving your nutrition is the simple answer.

We are all aware of the truth behind the old saying that “we are what we eat” but what is largely forgotten is that this applies to our mental wellbeing as well as our physical. Mood, motivation, and mental performance are powerfully influenced by diet.

During a typical day, our feet endure a cumulative force of several hundred tons: the average person engaging in non-strenuous activity walks approximately four miles per day or about 115,000 miles in a lifetime. All too often our feet are ignored, squeezed into ill-fitting shoes in the name of fashion. The result for many people is sensitive or troublesome feet and difficulty in finding footwear to alleviate the problems caused.