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Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has confirmed that he will not contest the next General Election, due to take place in 2025.

Available national data (e.g. from the TILDA survey) shows substantial unmet need for access to mental health services for older persons with common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Minister of State for Public Health, Well Being and National Drugs Strategy, Deputy Frank Feighan, visited St Kieran’s Community Centre in Athlone in recent times to launch Sláintecare Healthy Communities Westmeath.

A sense of bafflement pervaded the October meeting of Castlebar MD on Wednesday afternoon last, in which several local councillors said they really had no clue what is going on in the town - and even a government TD didn’t know what was going on either.

Westmeath County Council established the Community Response Forum to bring services and agencies together to respond to the crisis in a co-ordinated fashion with membership of the forum includes all the relevant service providers in the county, representatives of voluntary groups and a member of the Ukrainian community.

New safefood funded research that looked at the cost of living with a food allergy or coeliac disease in Ireland has estimated that the average cost burden for a child with a food allergy is €1,439 every year, rising to €1,602 for an adult.

Management at Galway’s public hospitals assured patients that appointments and procedures would resume as quickly as possible this week in the wake of the nationwide disruption to services caused by the industrial action taken by medical scientists on Tuesday. They carry out critical diagnostic testing of patient samples.

A new International Health Literacy Survey preliminary results shows that nearly one in three (28 percent) people in Ireland have ‘limited’ health literacy and in particular struggle with finding and evaluating health information.

Health services facilities in Galway have been rewarded for implementing healthier food options for staff and visitors.

The public sanitary conditions in Athenry, were regarded as a disgrace, and not conducive to a healthy environment when an epidemic of smallpox erupted there in the spring of 1875.