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Did you know that Ireland is currently one of the top spenders in the world on complications related to diabetes? It is estimated that between eight and 10 per cent of our overall healthcare expenditure is spent on diabetic complications such as hospitalisation, surgical interventions and long-term wound dressings, etc. Even more concerning is that while other EU countries are successfully reducing the number of diabetes-related amputations by introducing hyperbaric oxygenation (HBOT), Ireland isn't keeping pace.

Mduduzi Ngwenya, an NUI Galway student, DJ, and community activist, is being threatened with deportation, a move which has led to the founding of an online petition and a campaign to prevent him being forced to return to Zimbabwe.

There was good news for Ballinasloe woman Harriet Bruce this week when it was confirmed that herself and her husband, who was deported in error to Brazil in July, are to be reunited in the near future.

The Galway City Council collected more than half a million euro in revenue from parking fines last year. Figures released by the local authority show that 14,683 parking tickets were issued by traffic wardens around the city in 2014. That equates to an average of just over 40 tickets per day.

A young Crossmolina man has been given one last chance to engage with the probation services or face a prison sentence for an unprovoked assault during the Lahardane Fair on August 16, 2013.

Along with milk and bread, some people will be adding ‘pay court fine’ to their shopping list from early next year as the Court Service is looking for 40 local shops in Galway to take part in a national penalty payment initiative.

At the holiday sitting of Castlebar District Court on Wednesday, Judge Conal Gibbons struck out a charge of assault against a Westport man.

A man who collided into the rear of a car when he was intoxicated was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday for a probation report.

A man from Ballina was who was found in possession of €30 worth of drugs at Castlebar Garda Station was before Ballina District Court this week for a probation report. Judge Mary Devins said that the man seems to be “making some moves in the right direction”.