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Imagine you are six-years-old. You live in a happy home with your parents and younger sister. The days pass in a blur of fun, laughter, and childish playfulness.

The 16th of October 2016 is etched indelibly onto Olive Foley's memory. It is a day she will never forget. 

The existence of the Bereavement Officer services to deal with bereaved familes at Galway University Hospitals should be better communicated to the public, a Galway city councillor told the Regional Health Forum on Tuesday.

Men in dark clothing with torches were banging and roaring at the windows and doors of Noel and Lorraine Thomas’ rural home in Gortachalla exactly one year ago.

Local employers are invited to attend a special workshop, Strategies for Supporting Grieving Employees, on Wednesday, 6 November, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Diligent Bonham Quay, Dock Rd, Galway. This workshop, hosted by HopeSpace Children’s Grief Support Service, will provide guidance on how to support employees dealing with grief, ensuring both compassionate care and sustained workplace performance.

The Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association (IMNDA) has launched a bereavement programme for those that have lost loved ones to motor neuron disease (MND).

When the bells peal on a new year, we enter it with a bucket of fresh hope that the changing of what are just numbers will alter what lies ahead. It is a naive but innocent assumption that does no harm.

HopeSpace, Galway’s children’s grief service, is running a series of free public talks for parents, teachers, and all who support young people impacted by grief.

The shape of the way we have grieved has changed over the generations. The way we handle it, the way we position it in our lives, the way that the pandemic has shaped the way we pass along our condolences; the manner in which over time, we have changed how we burden some of the pain of others; how we communally become part of the collective arm to wrap around those in most pain.

A workshop on loss and grief, which will take place in the city on Saturday February 25, will acknowledge that grief is not a straightforward process.