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Despite a partial easing of Covid-19 restrictions, allowing sports and outdoor facilities to reopen from next week, pregnant women will still have to attend vital appointments and scans at UHG alone.

Possible plans by the HSE to cut 15 of 86 intern doctors working at UHG in July are “unacceptable” while the Covid-19 pandemic continues and the vaccination rollout proves to be “slow, stilted, and confusing”.

Bank of Ireland’s decision to close its branches in Oughterard, Ballygar, and Dunmore is the “wrong decision at the worst possible time” and will have “serious consequences for customers and staff”.

A new affordable housing scheme from the Government will not result in more people owning their own homes, but instead will push up prices and see “a return to failed housing policies of the Celtic Tiger era”.

The people set to benefit from the Government’s Land Development Agency Bill will not be those looking to buy a house, instead the Bill will provide another boomtime for developers and banks.

The current cold snap poses significant risks to elderly Galweigans, and the Government must take action, by supporting a new fuel poverty Bill.

Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell has called on the Minister for Health to quit delaying and pay student nurses and midwives.

House prices across Galway are set to soar by eight per cent in 2021 - the highest increase in the State, and almost twice the national average of 4.4 per cent.

A total of 4,032 children in Galway are awaiting some level of speech and language therapy, with needs ranging from initial assessment to further therapy.

Parents of children at Rosedale Special School have raised concerns that their children will suffer developmental and behavioural regression with schools closed until at least the end of January.