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Helen Ogbu, Labour Party Local Election Candidate for Galway City East, believes councillors can achieve positive change. If elected on June 7, she pledges to work tirelessly to build a community that works for all, where more homes are built, facilities and amenities for children and teenagers are available, mental health and wellbeing support programmes are accessible, neighborhoods are safer, more community creches/childcare facilities and actions on climate change are prioritised.

A new drive is underway to bolster State funding for services which heart and stroke patients in County Westmeath describe as their “lifeline”.

A new drive is underway to bolster State funding for services which heart and stroke patients in Co Galway describe as their “lifeline”.

A first of its kind housing festival, Féile Housing, took place in the city last weekend, looking at the realities of the current housing emergency and possible solutions over the two-day event.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has welcomed the announcement that AIB will not proceed with their decision to make many branches cashless and praised local communities for standing up for their services.

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The elected members of Mayo County Council will meet on Monday, November 23, at 11am, to try and adopt a budget for the coming year - if they fail to do so on that day they have scheduled in a second day on Wednesday, November 25, to carry over the meeting to make a decision.

"Urgent action" must be taken by the Galway County Council to address the lack of burial ground in Claregalway, especially when this is "a rapidly growing parish" making this is "a very sensitive issue for local people".

Waiting time for out-patient appointments on the Pain Service Waiting List was 1,924 days, a situation that is "completely unacceptable" and which must be "tackled as a matter of urgency".

Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West, Éamon Ó Cuív, has slammed the HSE and the Minister for Health for the inordinate delay in providing full orthopaedic services in Merlin Park, Co. Galway where two operating theatres have been out of action.