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The first physician in the west of Ireland dedicated to the treatment of adults with cystic fibrosis has been appointed at Galway University Hospitals [University and Merlin Park].

Local heart charity Croi has scooped a major award for its pioneering work in the prevention of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

A local support group is heading up an awareness campaign in Galway aimed at reducing death and disability from stroke, Ireland’s third biggest killer disease.

A consultant urologist at University Hospital Galway has alleged that a significant minority of junior hospital staff are being subjected to low level racist bullying in some of Ireland’s hospitals.

In Roy Foster’s impressive biography of WB Yeats* he tells an interesting anecdote concerning the sinking of the RMS Lusitania off the Cork coast on May 7 1915. The Galway writer Violet Martin (the second half of the caustic but amusing Sommerville and Ross duo), was walking by the sea near Castletownshend, Co Cork, when she saw the Lusitania pass in ‘beautiful weather’. Half and hour later, as the ship steamed passed the Old Head of Kinsale on her way to Liverpool, it was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Nearly 2,000 people perished.

The controversial subject of female genital mutilation will be discussed at a public meeting in The Ruby Room in The King’s Head next Wednesday at 7pm.

The Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) for Mullingar is set to open this month, according to the HSE.

A nationwide survey of public carpark parking spaces carried out by tyre-maker Semperit has highlighted a significant number of spaces that are narrower than the recommended guidelines.

A nationwide survey of public car parking spaces carried out by tyre-maker Semperit has highlighted a significant number that are narrower than the recommended guidelines.

The latest list of feeder schools to third level education published this week shows that the numbers of students who sit their Leaving Certificate and go on to third level education is still very high. One school in the county, St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, had 98 students sit the Leaving Cert in 2009, and according to the report 100 per cent of them went on to third level with NUI Galway the top choice for those students, with 28 going there.