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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.

I have been talking a lot recently about public or collective memory. The series of commemorations that began two years ago illustrates that while we may have different interpretations of the events that gave rise to the birth of our nation, it is clear that the happenings of 1919-1923 are firmly embedded in the collective conscience. We will never agree on the finer detail of the roles played by the principal protagonists involved in the Treaty negotiations of 1921.

Independent TD Sean Canney has been informed by the Minister for Education that GRETB have now signed a service level agreement with the Department of Education to deliver the new amalgamated Primary School for Tuam.

“There have always been great soccer players in Tuam, and footballers, of course,” Franny Fallon says proudly.

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.

Work has begun on the new €17 million Community Nursing Unit facility in Tuam, which will have 50 beds and a high dependency unit.