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An innovative wellbeing programme, which targets young primary school children, has been piloted in three Galway schools.

Fianna Fáil’s greatest challenge is reconnecting with the public who always supported it, according to local TD John McGuinness, an outspoken critic of Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s leadership.

In late news at time of going to press (Wednesday evening) it has emerged that respite services provided by the Brothers of Charity in Galway are to remain at previous levels.

The latest figures from the gardaí and the Department of Justice show that 36 head shops are still open across the country, the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children was told this week. Mayo TD Beverley Flynn is a member of the committee.

People can boost their health and fitness thanks to a new initiative managed by the HSE West which aims to help them prevent and manage chronic disease.

The report of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) on Athlone’s Loughloe House care facility is due to be published in the coming days.

The Drum Youth Centre, Kilkenny’s dedicated youth space, has issued an invitation to the public to attend an event to celebrate the official opening of the centre to young people on Saturday May 8 from 3pm to 5pm.

Local patients are set to have a bigger choice of doctors in the community with the news that the number of GP training places is set to increase.

Education programmes in secondary schools may be the key to fighting the growing popularity of “head shops” in towns and cities throughout the country, according to former mayor Cllr Padraig Conneely.

Visiting restrictions are in operation at University Hospital Galway and at Aras Mhic Dara community nursing unit in Carraroe due to a number of suspected cases of the winter vomiting bug (norovirus).