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A FUNDRAISING event takes place on Saturday to raise money for the treatment of Isabelle Chelsea Rose who lives with cystic fibrosis.

A major increase in the number of mumps cases in the west has resulted in the HSE West advising teenagers and young adults to ensure that they have had two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to avoid contracting the infection. The number of reported mumps cases in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon rocketed from 18 last year to 258 by mid December this year.

Ballina Family Resource Centre is setting up a parent and toddler group. If you are interested in joining this group then go along to the coffee morning in the Ballina Family Resource Centre on Wednesday February 25 at 11am. For further information contact 096 75573 or 087 052 4677.

Is there anything more this Government has left to do that can shock us? Is there much they can introduce next Tuesday that will horrify us as much as the heartless decision this week to kill the little bit of hope that lay in the hearts of cystic fibrosis sufferers and their families? For such people, life is a constant struggle against death. Every shower of rain, every dark cloud, every sneeze, every shared waiting room is a potential killer.

TOMMY TIERNAN will launch the literary journal ROPES Unravelled, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in the Town Hall on Thursday April 23 at 5pm.

A table quiz in aid of the Galway Hospital Cystic Fibrosis fund will be held at Crowe’s Bar, Bohermore on Friday May 8 at 8.30pm.

The Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland has launched a major national campaign to fundraise for dedicated CF units throughout the country, including two en suite rooms and a treatment room in Mayo General Hospital.

A parent, baby, and toddler group will take place in the Ballina Family Resource Centre on Thursdays from 11am to 12.30pm.

Friends of Cystic Fibrosis has received planning permission to build a state of the art clinic onto Mayo General Hospital for cystic fibrosis sufferers in the west of Ireland.