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"Is that a rub or a scrub?" Marie Curran's husband jokingly asks her when she washes the dishes. That simple chore can be a mammoth task for the 43-year-old Waterford woman who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in 2012.

A total of 5,327 people walked out of emergency departments in Galway's public hospitals last year without being assessed.

More than 18,000 Galway people could be suffering from Long Covid, a term used to describe Covid-19 effects that continue for weeks or months after the initial illness, according to statistics released by the Independent Roscommon/Galway TD, Denis Naughten.

Two transplant recipients from Athlone, together with family and friends, gathered at the scenic Burgess Park in Athlone, on the banks of the River Shannon, for a photocall to highlight the Irish Kidney Association’s third virtual Run for a Life (www.ika.ie/runforalife), a family fun run which will culminate on Saturday, May 28.

The major disruption to local hospital services caused by the recent cyber attack on the HSE’s IT system is expected to continue for a number of weeks with thousands of patients facing cancelled appointments and delays.

The Care Trust (TCT), one of the country’s longest established specialist charity fundraisers, has just launched a giant one-off year-end text-to-win car raffle to generate extra funds for children and adults with disabilities and those in need of specialist residential and day support and care therapies.