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A truly beautiful two bedroom residence, in show-house condition, has just come onto the market and is sure to attract plenty of attention.

The news that the long awaited sexual assault treatment unit, which is to be located in the city, is to open on Monday has been given a guarded welcome by a local city councillor and former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum.

Concerns raised by the general manager of University Hospital Galway that the facility cannot function as a centre of excellence due to financial cutbacks as well as its effects on patient care were a “damning indictment”, the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

Two or three clinics giving the swine flu vaccination is not enough to deal with the population of county Galway and unless the HSE opens more clinics there will be problems for doctors and unnecessary stress caused to patients in rural areas.

The rate of swine flu among children is still “extremely high” the HSE West said this week as it prepares to offer the vaccine to this group over the coming weeks and months.