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The HSE recruitment embargo of 2009 meant zero jobs for 1,500 nurses graduating in Ireland each year. They were instead forced to go overseas for jobs and further training. Top destinations in 2014/2015 have been the UK, Australia, USA and UAE (in particular, Dubai). The current nursing crisis is creating a high demand for nursing staff, in particular, those with additional specialised or sub-specialised training. The call is out. Nurses come home.

Do you find it impossible to lose weight and keep it off despite your best efforts to diet? Does everyone around you seem to eat more than you - and yet somehow end up slimmer? Do you struggle to resist carbohydrate foods such as bread, cakes, chocolate, crisps and pasta? Do most of your excess pounds sit around your tummy? Do you feel tired for much of the time, irritable and unable to focus? Do you feel bloated and sluggish?

PoppySeed Clarinbridge hosts its Fashion and High Tea event on Thursday next, October 15, at 8pm. Following the excitement of last year's event the PoppySeed team will introduce the finest fashions from Ail Ruin Design Centre, Inspired By Accessories, and Meadows & Byrne while guests enjoy a sumptuous high tea of handmade treats.

More than 2,500 Galway children may benefit from the services provided by the new €650 million national children’s hospital in Dublin, which is expected to be completed by 2019.

Representatives of the Fulbright Commission of Ireland will visit Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) on Thursday, October 8, to talk to students and researchers about funded postgraduate study, research, or teaching in the US.

A BreastCheck mobile digital screening unit is on location in the grounds of St Vincent’s Hospital, beside the Health Centre, in Athlone.

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has joined the HSE in urging people in at-risk groups to get vaccinated against influenza, warning that flu causes severe illness and death in Ireland every year.

The Irish Government could halve the costs associated with dementia care and improve sufferers’ lives by supporting them to live at home, according to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland [ASI].

Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, and Minister for Primary Care, Social Care and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch, have launched the new Diabetes Cycle of Care service for holders of medical cards and GP visit cards with Type 2 diabetes.

Burgess Department Store, Athlone, is supporting the Marie Keating Foundation’s ‘Give your Bra for Breast Cancer’ campaign.