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Fianna Fáil Senator Lisa Chambers speaking about the impact of lockdown on people said: "We have rightly been focused on protecting public health from Cobid-19 and working to ensure our hospitals do not become over run but there have been unintended consequences for people's mental health as we roll in and out of lockdown and little has been done to help people."

The Government has failed to "seize upon an opportunity to advance a real equality agenda" in Budget 2021 by not increasing funding for the childcare sector.

Day care centres, and other essential disability services, must be classes as "vital services" with the State having moved into Level 3 lockdown, and with Level 5 a very real and serious possibility.

The resumption of disability day services is welcome news for the more than 430 adults in Galway with a disability, but supports needed to combat the impact and continuing threat of Covid-19.

Minister for Disability Anne Rabbitte TD has welcomed the publication of a HSE web portal providing details of when disability day services will reopen. The portal provides information on the services opening in each CHO by location and details the number of service users that will use the location on a daily basis.

We are Fionn Crombie Angus and Jonathan Angus, probably best known around Galway for busking on Shop Street. We've been part of the local music scene, with Fionn playing his distinctive left-handed fiddle, and Jonathan backing him up on guitar, for five years, after moving from County Clare when Fionn finished secondary school.

Mayo County Council's arts service is gearing up to launch the 2018 Upstart programme of arts and activities.

The number of people sleeping rough in the city is at its highest ever with up to 50 men and women lying in doorways at night. The "extraordinary" deterioration in the homelessness crisis has led to this "unprecedented" situation, according to Martin O'Connor, the assistant CEO of COPE Galway which provides emergency accommodation and day services for the homeless.