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The new chief executive to be appointed to Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) must put ironing out the problems at UHG’s emergency department and dealing with extensive outpatient waiting lists top of his/her priorities, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

A woman lost her life and another woman was seriously injured in two separate road accidents in Galway this week.

It is clear that the Government has not acknowledged the legacy of Susie Long from Kilkenny who died from colon cancer three years ago, as recent figures report that there are still 1,854 people waiting three months or more for colonoscopy examinations.

The Galway branch of the Irish Kidney Association is calling for the appointment of a dedicated staff member at University Hospital Galway to liaise with families of intensive care patients in a bid to increase the number of donors available.

A brain-injured man, in prison for threatening the life of his former partner in a birthday card to their nine-year-old daughter, was given a lifeline at the most recent sitting of the Circuit Court in Athlone (February 23) when he was given leave to attend for hospital treatment.

A young man remains in a critical but stable condition in a Dublin hospital following a late night assault in Kilkenny city over the bank holiday weekend.

There was good news in the health sector for Carlow Kilkenny this week following the announcement that St Luke’s Hospital has purchased a new state of the art CT scanner, costing €700,000.

Gardaí in Kilkenny are investigating after a man in his 50s was discovered with a serious head injury on the Kilkenny to Castlecomer Road at the junction with the Ballyfoyle Road in the early hours of Monday morning.

The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association will hold its AGM at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinaslo, on Saturday at 11am.

Two men have been arrested in Galway following a series of attacks in Ballinrobe at the weekend.