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Q: My friend is going for an interview in a fortnight as a community development worker with a youth organisation. The role will involve helping young people growing up in difficult circumstances to get involved in activities such as sport, drama, art, volunteering and the like. She is newly qualified in this area but hasn’t a breeze what kind of questions to expect in the interview. I’ve agreed to put her through a mock interview next week and would like to have an idea of questions I could ask her - and possible answers for them in general terms? (LC, email).

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly; Minister for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler; Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Hildegarde Naughton; and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Breda Smyth, have announced a new multi-media campaign aimed at combatting loneliness and isolation among older people.

Patricia O’Flaherty -Guidance Counsellor

University of Galway has this week unveiled two new outdoor gyms on its campus.

National No Smoking Day is Wednesday, February 22 and to highlight all the programmes and supports available to help people stop smoking there will be an information stand in the Primary Care Centre, Athlone N37 P8P8 from 10am-4pm on the day.

A workshop on loss and grief, which will take place in the city on Saturday February 25, will acknowledge that grief is not a straightforward process.

Galway City Council may soon have to make hard decisions and look at increasing the heights of buildings in order to facilitate the growth and housing need of the city, this week’s meeting was told at The Ardilaun Hotel.

A Galway based senior clinical psychologist will speak next month at a west of Ireland workshop aimed at helping parents overcome the trauma of a childhood cancer diagnosis.

BY DECLAN VARLEY