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“The HSE and Fianna Fáil must be honest with the people of Erris regarding the future of Belmullet Hospital,” according to Sinn Fein councillor Rose Conway-Walsh. “I categorically refute the claim by the HSE that Belmullet Hospital is not in crisis. Plans to close a significant number of the 40 beds in the hospital and failure to provide adequate staff to run the hospital to its full capacity is a crisis. While the whole hospital will not be closing at this time surely a downgrading of services will make it easier to close in the future,” she added.

Halloween is traditionally associated with all things frightful, but local councillors are hoping that the hell-raising antics of last year in Carlow town don’t re-occur this weekend.

Newport Fianna Fáil councillor Frank Chambers will bow out of political life this week but not before he heaps praise on the staff of Mayo General Hospital.

Mystery still surrounds the fatal car accident which resulted in the tragic death of a young woman over the bank holiday weekend.

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.

The Stroke Unit in Saint Luke’s hospital is celebrating its one year anniversary this week.

Emergency departments across the Midlands have reported an upsurge in the number of people with fractures caused by the recent spell of severe weather.