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Heart charity Croí, the west of Ireland’s cardiology foundation, in collaboration with HSE West’s Mayo Primary, Community, and Continuing Care, has announced the appointment of Ballina nurse Ailish Houlihan to lead an innovative, community based, cardiovascular disease prevention programme for County Mayo. The programme, which will be known as Heart Smart Mayo, will integrate with the primary care teams in Mayo, identifying and targeting those most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

Mary Millea from Tullaroan in Kilkenny and Garrett Byrne from Campagne restaurant at Gashouse Lane in Kilkenny city are centrally involved in a new publishing initiative with the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF).

A sexual assault treatment unit will open in the city within the next few weeks. The facility will initially be based in a temporary premises which is understood to be on the west side of the city close to University Hospital Galway. It will eventually be located in a permanent premises to be built on the Merlin Park Hospital campus.

A consultant at St. Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow/Kilkenny has been named “Obstetrician of the Year” at the second annual Maternity & Infant magazine Awards (supported by Hibernian Aviva Health).

The HSE warned staff at Portiuncula Hospital this week that services will be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action threatened by the Irish Nurses Organisation goes ahead.

A spokesperson for the local branch of the Irish Nurses Organisation has accused the HSE of “scaremongering” following its warning this week that services would be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action at Portiuncula was to go ahead.

Galway men and women are among the top groups who found love at Knock Marriage Introductions Bureau.

SLOWLY BUT surely the men and women e writings made Ireland one of the greater global cultural centres from the 1960s to the 1990s are gradually passing on.

Sonas, the independent living and retirement village at Cloghanboy, Athlone held an open day this week (March 12) to highlight its facilities.

THIS YEAR is the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth and Music For Galway is marking the occasion in style with Fantasies and Fairytales, a weekend of selected chamber works by Schumann, running over four concerts from January 22 to 24 at the Town Hall Theatre.