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The construction tender for the new surgical hub on the grounds of Merlin Park will issue this month, after planning permission was granted by Galway City Council this week, Local TD and Government Chief Whip, Hildegarde Naughton said this week.

ALONE, the national organisation supporting older people to age at home, has called for action from the Department of Health on loneliness, as new data shows that Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe.

It will be illegal to sell e-cigarettes/vaping products to under-18s in the near future when a new Bill, the second stage of which came before the Dail on Tuesday, comes into effect.

According to the National Children’s Food Survey, the majority of primary school aged children in Ireland (5-12 years) are only consuming three portions of fruit and vegetables per day which is far from the recommended ‘7 a day’.

Officials from the Department of Social Protection have admitted they are still engaged in a “back and forth with colleagues in health, teasing out issues” with regard to the designation of long Covid as an occupational illness.

Prioritising the delivery of the promised cancer care network for the Saolta region and the cancer centre on the campus of University Hospital Galway (UHG) has the potential to bridge the healthcare inequality that exists between East and West in this country and will save patients’ lives, an information meeting in the city heard this week.

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The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) last evening urged the HSE to take immediate action to avoid a post-Easter trolley surge.

Plans for a brand new 40-bed hospital in Clifden to serve Connemara will be submitted to Galway County Council before the summer, it was revealed yesterday (Wednesday)