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Local heart charity Croí in collaboration with HSE West’s Mayo PCCC, will host a free public meeting and open forum on Heart Disease: Prevention and Management, on Wednesday November 17 at 8pm, in the Dalton Inn Hotel, Claremorris.

A local businessman is to host a coffee morning at his restaurant to help raise money for the victims of the Pakistani flood disaster.

A union boss has issued a stern warning to local politicians - “Use your seat to protect services at Portiuncula Hospital or lose it”.

Fears about the future of the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar (MRHM) were allayed this week after it was found by the HSE to be the third best performing hospital in the country, according to this year’s HealthStat report.

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.

This year’s Galway Arts festival succeeds yet again in giving some insight into the minds of remarkable artists whose personal magic interprets our world. These include international journalists Niall O’Dowd, John Lancaster, several writers including Bret Easton Ellis, and the renowned theatre and opera director Sir Peter Hall. On Saturday afternoon, the playwright and poet Frank McGuinness teased out some paths through the labyrinthine mind of Ireland’s leading painter Brian Bourke.

Ireland’s leading arts event, the Galway Arts Festival, is set to provide an internationally acclaimed line-up of music, dance, theatre, comedy, street events and art from July 12 to 25.

In what must be every parent’s worst nightmare, the shock at the death of the little toddler in the accident at the weekend has sent shivers down the spines of us all. The horror of the moment is in all of our minds, but this must be a terrible period for the parents and family of little Oskars Dauksts.

The Galway Arts Festival has become such an enormous event (in fact it is now an international event of significance), that it is a bit like the Lisbon Treaty: You can’t see all of it; and while many of us see its value to the community, there are parts of it I don’t quite like.

A woman was killed on Saturday night after a road smash at Minna, Inverin, Co Galway.