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Mayo General Hospital is advising that due to the presence of suspected norovirus (winter vomiting bug) in one ward in the hospital visitors will only be permitted to non-affected areas during visiting times.

A member of the HSE Dental Department in Castlebar has been awarded the O’Mullane Prize at the annual scientific meeting of The Irish Society for Dentistry for Children for her research highlighting the importance of mouthguard use among National School children taking part in contact sports.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

A local nursing official has slammed the overcrowding “chaos” at University Hospital Galway’s emergency department earlier this week, likening it to “Third World conditions”.

The actions of a 31-year-old man who was involved in a “horrific incident” at the Accident and Emergency Department at Mayo General Hospital — when he was abusive to staff, was forcefully removed and then broke glass panels with his fist and a refuse bin, which resulted in A&E being evacuated — were described as “totally unacceptable behaviour” by Judge Mary Devins at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

The accident and emergency department at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny is safe according to local Fianna Fail Councillor John Coonan, who is also a member of the HSE South.