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Galway schools are playing a vital role in the fight against Covid-19 and deserve every recognition and praise, according to the chief executive of Saolta which runs the local public hospitals.

NUI Galway researchers in collaboration with the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, are leading The Frontline Worker Support (FLoWS) project to develop guidelines for alleviating psychological distress in frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An initiative to recognise excellence in the engineering sector and the positive impact that engineers have made to society during 2020 has been launched by the professional membership body, Engineers Ireland, in association with ESB.

Public anger at the decision to proceed with a golf society dinner in breach of public health guidelines in Clifden is showing no sign of abating a week after the event.

Covid-19 has exposed "a decades-long failure" to build a public health system that has enough doctors, nurses and beds, and with the pandemic far from over, this is a situation which cannot be allowed to continue.

The Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response is calling for changes to the current Covid-19 testing and contact tracing system to make it more robust and efficient.

First-time buyers who purchase an existing property in a town or village with a significant residential vacancy rate should be eligible to receive a grant of €15,000, Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has told the Dáil.

In response to the Government announcement on moving to phase 2+ of Ireland’s roadmap for reopening society and business, all weekday Bus Éireann services have returned to a standard Monday to Friday frequency from Monday last June 8, while Expressway will operate a normal schedule with some minor service reductions.

The heroic efforts of staff at GMIT have continued their work to help frontline heroes with the delivery of another batch of face visors to Galway University Hospitals this week.

Morgan Lucey , National Lead for the HSE Employee Assistance Program on what the Health Services are doing to support the needs of Health Care Workers During COVID-19.