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One of the most outspoken critics of the local health service was this week selected as the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum at its meeting in Merlin Park Hospital.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described as “astounding” the fact that the local health authority spent almost €2 million on legal fees last year.

The retiring hospital manager of University Hospital Galway has said she fears the hospital will no longer be able to function as one of eight designated cancer care centres.

Mayo Fine Gael Councillor Austin Francis O’Malley will chair the regional health forum west hospital committee for the coming year.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum Cllr Padraig Conneely has blasted the health authority for its failure to collect €11m owed to University Hospital Galway by private health insurers.

Back over the past decade when the birds didn’t get the auld sniffles and when pigs never flu, there was an affliction that struck this country. It was called PNH1SG or to give it its full name Paddy Never Had It So Good. It was a contagious condition that spread like wildfire. It was a strain of the other virus AF1WSLE (Arragh Feck It We’ve Suffered Long Enough). It was a deadly ailment that spread in conditions of affluence — as such it was a sort of gout for the Nineties and Noughties.

Concerns raised by the general manager of University Hospital Galway that the facility cannot function as a centre of excellence due to financial cutbacks as well as its effects on patient care were a “damning indictment”, the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

“Horrendous” is how the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the fact that almost 90 beds have now been closed in local public hospitals due to budgetary cutbacks.

Councillor Padraig Conneely has called upon the Private Rental Tenancy Board (PRTB) to appear before the next meeting of the Joint Policing Commitee in January in a bid to protect residents from unruly neighbours

A lack of funding will see community warden patrols finish before dark on Halloween night, leaving bonfire safety to the Garda, and fire services, according to chairman of the joint policing committee, Councillor Padraig Conneely.