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Celebrate Arthur’s Day on Thursday September 26 with a barbecue and live entertainment by Edison in Johnny McHales from 7pm.

The inaugural Nursing Homes Week 2013 will be celebrated in Westmeath from August 26 to September 1.

Eleven general staff nurses in Mayo General Hospital, who were facing the prospect of being unemployed at the end of this week, have had their contracts renewed for a three month period after the nurses boycotted the offering of a graduate programme which would lead to an immediate 20 per cent decrease in their wages.

CORU, the body charged with regulating health and social care professionals, has advised social workers that they have just weeks to apply to register with their regulator. Registration, which is aimed at protecting the public, is the law and social workers who do not register will face serious consequences.

A Co Galway family will travel across 12 European countries in a 20-year-old landrover to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.

The Galway Hospice is organising a community meeting next Tuesday March 12 in the Clayton Hotel at 8pm as part of the recently launched ‘Building for the Future’ fundraising campaign.

Over the Christmas season Raheen Woods Hotel put forth their annual Life in Lights campaign to raise much needed funds for the Galway Hospice Foundation. Established in 1986 Galway Hospice provides essential palliative care as well as counselling and support services for patients and their families.

Minister for Health James Reilly has been told to “back off”and find a more “equitable” solution rather than reducing the starting salary for newly qualified nurses and midwives to 80 per cent of the current rate.

More nursing graduates will be forced to emigrate unless the Minister for Health abandons its new graduate scheme.

A local recruitment agency is spearheading a drive to sign up 70 Irish nurses to work in public hospitals in New South Wales.