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THE HSE is currently undertaking an options appraisal following a request from Pieta Tuam for the use of HSE accommodation, following the closure of the local facility recently, this week’s meeting of the Regional Health Forum was told.

The historical role that The Grove in Tuam played in the medical life of North Galway was celebrated on Monday when Tánaiste Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence opened the Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) & Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHT) facility on the site of the former hospital.

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It is not possible to construct a schedule of works for the excavation and recovery of children’s remains at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said this week when he appointed experienced envoy Daniel MacSweeney as the director to oversee the project.

The HSE’s national ambulance service in the west is currently reviewing Tuam’s ambulance base to see if it needs to be expanded.

Irish Rural Link, the national network representing the interest of rural communities will host a Regional Stakeholder Consultation in the Ard Rí Hotel Tuam Co Galway on Thursday next February 23 from 9.30am-1.00pm.

Excavations to recover and identify the remains of children at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam could continue until early 2025 after they commence at the end of this year.

Gardaí in Tuam have appealed for witnesses to come forward following a violent altercation at a cemetery in Tuam last week.

CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.

Construction is to begin on two major health projects for Tuam - a new community nursing unit and a mental health day facility and disability unit - totalling more than €30 million.