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Croi has come a long way since it had that funding barometer sign outside the hospital, where passers-by could see just how much money it had to raise in order to give West of Ireland people a fair shot at surviving heart disease. Prior to Croi, if you had a dodgy ticker, you had to get on bone-rattling buses and cross the country in order to have your lifesaving surgery. Your chances of survival were reduced if you lived in the west. Back then too, the trauma of open heart surgery was so much more than it is today. Now, thanks to great leaps in technological advancement, bypasses and other invasive heart surgeries are becoming common and incredibly more lifesaving.

September is National Heart Month, and to mark the event the Irish Heart Foundation is holding a national blood pressure roadshow offering free blood pressure checks to community groups, the public, and Traveller organisations including the Galway Traveller Movement.

A Co Galway nursing home hit the headlines this week after a Health Information and Quality Authority report revealed how inspectors had serious concerns for the care and welfare of residents, however the family of two residents have defended the level of care provided.

Castlebar’s Aisling Neary has made her way through to the final 20 in the Outstanding Young Persons of the World competition, which is being run by Junior Chambers International. Neary, who is from Rathbawn in Castlebar, has been nominated under the humanitarian/voluntary leadership section. After qualifying as a nurse she joined Health Action Overseas and worked with children in an orphanage in Romania, before travelling in Australia and providing nursing to families living in the underdeveloped Australian bush.

The HSE in Mayo strives to provide a comprehensive range of mental health services both in the community and at various hospital and primary care sites around the county. The mental health team includes a consultant psychiatrist, registrar in psychiatry, mental health nurses, as well as addiction counsellors, psychologists, occupational therapists, and social workers. Total confidentiality for patients and clients is guaranteed at all times.

It may seem that four seasons as we know them have decided to rotate on a daily rather than three monthly basis, but the Galway Racing Festival, no matter what the overhead conditions are, is always guaranteed to deliver a week long episode of that west of Ireland feel good factor that is synonymous with the City Of The Tribes.

A Loughrea man who violently sexually assaulted a nurse in a laneway causing her severe head injuries has received a 10-year prison sentence, with three years suspended, and the sentence backdated almost two years to the date of the man’s arrest.

A man who violently sexually assaulted a nurse as she walked home at Bohermore last October, will today (Thursday) be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court.

Reducing overtime and agency spending and optimising income collection from private health insurance companies are ways being earmarked by the HSE West to help it cut costs and meet its reduced budget this year.

As thousands of students around the country get ready to sit the Leaving and Junior Cert Exams experts at St Patrick’s University Hospital warns parents to be mindful of their children’s anxiety at exam time.