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Chief Executive Officer of the Family Resource Centre National Forum, Fergal Landy, has been selected to run in the Oranmore-Athenry local electoral area for the Labour Party.

Tusla - Child and Family Agency is currently running a Fostering Recruitment Campaign to recruit new foster carers to meet the growing demand for placements, as a result of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and the impact of Covid-19 in communities across Ireland.

Galway University Hospital (GUH), Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH) and Community Healthcare West are implementing further initiatives this Winter to support hospital admission avoidance and promote patient flow across all acute and community healthcare facilities through an integrated approach.

The latest HIQA Inspection report for Tusla in Galway/Roscommon shows that the area’s residential service was compliant in all standards assessed. This HIQA inspection report focused on the statutory duties of Tusla social workers in the monitoring of placements for children in residential care in the Tusla Galway/Roscommon service area.

Roy Carroll was one of the best known characters of Galway City. As a resident musician in many city hotels in Eyre Square, he was forever the epitome of decorum, bedecked in his bow tie. He was known to many as the man on the scooter which he rode through the city while often carrying an open umbrella, Roy sadly passed away in early winter, but it would be remiss of the city to not pay tribute to this remarkable character with an even more remarkable back story. Because Roy Carroll was his stage name, not many knew that he was born Peter Salvatore Armonde Louis Volpe.

Bealach Nua which in English means New Way, is an innovative family peer support service for families/friends of people with mental health difficulties and is currently expanding its offering in Mayo.

The Government must speed up efforts to hire social care workers, as new figures show more than 6,000 child protection cases awaiting social workers to be assigned.

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The parents of the late Declan Donohue Junior who lost his life at four years of age following a farming accident in Belmullet while visiting relatives, are honoring his memory and raising funds for the Embrace Farm charity which has helped to them enormously over the past three years.

MAEVE BINCHY’S novel Minding Frankie is now a stage play, one described as “funny, moving...a thoroughly enjoyable experience," by The Arts Review, and which "draws applause and gasps throughout," according to The Irish Times, is coming to Galway.