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Award-winning food writer and TV presenter Donal Skehan has returned as Ambassador for the 18th Annual Great Irish Bake for Sick Children, calling on people across Galway to roll up their sleeves and help raise vital funds for sick children in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals and urgent care centres.

World Kidney Day, which takes place today (March 12), marks a worldwide initiative aimed at raising awareness of kidney disease and the importance of prevention and early detection. This year’s theme, 'Kidney Health for All: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet', highlights the connection between environmental sustainability (air pollution, heat stress) and kidney disease, promoting eco-friendly, equitable, and accessible kidney care.

The last remaining artworks by the late and gifted Galway painter, Angeline Cooke, will be shown at the Coole Gallery in Gort over the August Bank Holiday weekend. ‘The Gift’ exhibition celebrates Angeline’s luminous talent, and all proceeds from the sale of her paintings will be donated to the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) and the Strange Boat Donor Foundation Circle of Life Garden in Salthill, Galway.

THE HSE is spending in the region of €35,000 a week on taxis transporting dialysis patients to and from their treatment in GUH, the Regional Health Forum was told this week.

A Galwaywoman has spoken out about the life-changing impact of a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant she received in 2024, expressing deep gratitude to her donor and highlighting the vital importance of organ donation.

On Wednesday next, July 31, Peter Conboy from Ballygar, Galway (on the Roscommon border) will embark on a remarkable five-day 240 km distance charity Cycle of Life across the country, starting at 10.30 am from Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, where his Donegal wife was a patient more than two decades before.

On Wednesday next, July 31, Peter Conboy from Ballygar, Galway (on the Roscommon border) will embark on a remarkable five-day 240 km distance charity Cycle of Life across the country, starting at 10.30 am from Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, where his Donegal wife was a patient more than two decades before.

Merlin Park University Hospital has introduced a new pathway offering some dialysis patients an alternative to surgery for the insertion of catheters.

Health Forum West member and Mayo County Councillor, Michael Kilcoyne, is to raise a number of local health issues at the upcoming forum meeting due to take place in Galway on September 26 next, including the provision of certain services such as Emergency and mobile X-ray services, at Mayo University Hospital.