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Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring has welcomed the HIQA decision that the registrations of Áras Deirbhle, Belmullet (37 beds) and St Fionnan’s Community Nursing Unit, Achill (32) will be completed before the end of June.

Community nursing homes in the county could face closure if the warnings given by the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly come to fruition. Dr Reilly remarked earlier this week at a Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary party that cuts in the forthcoming budget could results in the closure of 40 nursing homes, the closing of 1,000 hospital beds, and the hotly debated issue of a €50 medical card charge.

A Loughrea man was so impressed by the State visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Ireland in May that he put pen to paper to thank her for coming here.