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The Roscommon Hospital Action Committee has said it is “fully supportive” of the industrial action being undertaken by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation at Limerick Regional Hospital.

On Monday, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny officially opened the brand new Ballina Primary Care Centre in Ballina, the first of its kind in the county. The centre, which is a venture between Drs Tom and Sean Moffatt in partnership with the HSE, will provide primary care services to a large number of people in the Ballina area.

The budget for Mayo General Hospital has overrun by more than €2 million for the first seven months of the year, causing fears locally that services will be affected coming into the health service’s busiest time of the year.

Parenting is a big responsibility. It is often full of joy, but it can also be very hard work. It can often be even harder work if your child has a disability. All the usual things parents worry about can seem to get much bigger.

The Minister for Health was welcomed to Kilkenny for a happy occasion last week when he visited the new state-of-the-art Primary Care Centre and Medical Park at Ayrfield on Friday.

The first Living Links group was set up in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, in May 2002, when a small group of local people got together in direct response to a suicide in the community. The event was tragic and cataclysmic for the people and there was a huge sense of inadequacy on the ground as to how to provide appropriate community support and a consequent sense of failure as a community.

The nomination process for the upcoming presidential election has got as much coverage in the papers and the airwaves as most of the candidates over the past few months. One of the first to set his stall out and get into the race is the Fine Gael nominee Gay Mitchell. The former minister of state and current MEP for Dublin threw his hat in the ring early in the summer and has been on the campaign trail since. It has been a different kind of campaign for the Dubliner who has been more used to the metropolitan hustings than the more rural agricultural type of campaigning that the national contest had in store for him.

Sinn Féin Health spokesperson, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, has challenged Taoiseach Enda Kenny on the proposed closure of 59 hospital beds in Mayo, including six in Swinford District Hospital where the Taoiseach, a Mayo TD, opened new facilities in July.

A patient forum set up last year at Galway University Hospitals [UHG and Merlin Park] is providing an effective and efficient link between the community and hospital staff, according to the clinical director of the Galway/Roscommon Hospital Group, Dr David O’Keeffe.

A patient forum set up last year at Galway University Hospitals [UHG and Merlin Park] is providing an effective and efficient link between the community and hospital staff, according to the clinical director of the Galway/Roscommon Hospital Group, Dr David O’Keeffe.