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Galway has been earmarked for up to 1,000 places on Fine Gael’s National Internship Programme for unemployed graduates, according to the party’s Galway West candidate Brian Walsh.

The Village Nursing Care Centre near Craughwell has been shortlisted for an award for its outstanding efforts to change the course of tomorrow for patients in Ireland. The Village Nursing Care Centre was one of the 15 inspirational and important shortlisted projects from the healthcare sector in the inaugural Astellas Changing Tomorrow Awards.

Nurses at the Bon Secours Hospital in Renmore staged a lunchtime protest yesterday (Wednesday) to highlight what they claim is their employer’s decision to renege on a pay agreement brokered earlier this year.

The last year quarter has shown some welcome signs in the recruitment sector, according to Irishjobs.ie, the quarterly online jobs index. These include a nine per cent increase in jobs advertised online as compared to last year. The medical professionals and healthcare sector has seen the biggest increase in new jobs advertised, with retailing, wholesaling, and purchasing showing the largest decline in new jobs advertised.

Councillor Patsy O’Brien has voiced his opposition to recent proposals regarding dental healthcare benefits in Ireland. Among the many funding cuts put forward in the McCarthy Report, one proposal currently being considered involves the ending of the Dental Treatment Benefits Scheme, otherwise known as the PRSI scheme, for which more than two million people in Ireland are eligible every year.