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A new private clinic in Galway is providing urgent mental health consultations for people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and who have not engaged in any self-harm.

It has been a decade since its last performance in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, but Handel’s Messiah is returning with a unique, local twist on Sunday, December 14, at 7.30pm.

Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Naughton TD, has today encouraged parents and guardians in Galway with children in primary school, and those with younger children, to take part in the online survey of primary school communities.

As the homelessness crisis in Galway and across the West continues to intensify, 51 business leaders are this week preparing to spend a night on Shop Street to raise essential funds for COPE Galway’s Homeless Services.

Four Galwegians have been selected to attend a special bootcamp for community changemakers, sponsored by a philanthropic foundation.

A man with two years’ rowing experience is to take on the Atlantic Ocean in a mammoth fundraising challenge for two charities.

A man who is currently in custody is off the drink now, his solicitor told Galway District Court when dealing with a public order charge brought against him for public drunkenness.

Galway County Council is hosting a free public webinar at 1pm and 7pm on Thursday December 4 to explain how the Affordable Housing Purchase Scheme works.

A week spent in prison has been a “sobering experience” for a man with addiction issues, his solicitor pleaded, when he appeared again before Galway District Court on theft charges.

Galway Simon Community has launched its annual Christmas Appeal, calling on the public to help provide hope and dignity to people experiencing homelessness across Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. At the end of September this year there were 644 people in Emergency Accommodation in the West of Ireland including 214 children. It does not have to be this way. Last year Galway Simon Community supported 1,869 people, including 277 families with 579 children, to prevent them from becoming homeless. The charity reports that the number of people seeking help is continuing to increase.