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Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon-Galway Eugene Murphy has highlighted the fact that more than 90,000 bed days were lost in the hospital system so far this year owing to delayed discharges, including almost 4,000 in University Hospital Galway. A further 597 bed days were lost over the same period in Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe.

There were celebratory scenes in the Clayton Hotel at the weekend when Castlegar nurse Niamh Elwood was crowned the 2017 Galway Rose — and will go on to represent the city and county in the next round in Tralee in August.

On the 23rd of September 2014, a little miracle was born in University Hospital, Galway. Juliet Smith was, at that point, Ireland’s most scanned baby according to her mother Gabrielle. The reason little Juliet was a miracle baby was because the condition that threatened to take her before she was born was so rare that it was a 1 in a million chance of occurrence. Gabrielle was told that her baby might not survive and that she should prepare for the worst.

Two remarkable Galway people, Conor O’Malley and Sal Joyce, grew up in the Maam Valley, Connemara, in the closing years of the 19th century. Although they were cousins, they probably never met until they were both doctors working side by side in the Galway Central Hospital, on Prospect Hill, the forerunner of the present University Hospital, in the 1920s.

THE GALWAY University Hospital Arts Trust is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition, which this year will be judged by leading Galway poet, Kevin Higgins, current writer-in-residence with the GUH Arts Trust.

One in six pregnant women or 16 per cent of pregnant women attending maternity services across Ireland are at probable risk of depression during their pregnancy, according to a new survey launched this week by a Trinity College Dublin research team and the Irish Obstetric Services. Mayo Univesity Hospital, Castlebar, was one of the maternity sites involved in this first comprehensive incidence survey. More than 5,000 women at all stages of pregnancy were questioned for the study in Castlebar and at The National Maternity Hospital, Cork University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick, and community antenatal clinics in Tallaght.

Cushman Wakefield Galway are delighted to bring to the market Cuirt na hAbhann, Liosban Business Park Galway which comprises of a modern residential development and three commercial units. The development occupies a prominent position in Liosban Business close to the junction with Terryland Shopping Centre and approximately 2.5km to the northeast of the City Centre.

O’Donnellan & Joyce have a number of incredible investment properties for sale in their ‘Wild Atlantic Way Autumn Auction’ on Tuesday September 27. Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce outlines that “there’s immense variety of gilt edged investment opportunities in Galway city and the county. This auction has a range of apartments and houses, some offices and retail units giving the sharp investor a great opportunity to buy properties with excellent rental yields.”

A Salthill man who was ordained to the priesthood in 1982 was appointed diocesan administrator earlier this week.

The provision of a new emergency department at UHG is the number one priority of the Saolta University Health Care Group.