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The Galway hurlers take on Cork this Sunday in Semple Stadium (4pm) in the All-Ireland quarter-final.

A local child who is battling a rare and aggressive cancer has just a four per cent chance of survival by availing of the treatment for the condition in this country.

Spring is here and we are all eager to shed those extra winter pounds. However before we start on any exercise programme, it is essential that our feet are in peak condition in anticipation of all this extra work!

After hearing Joe Brolly on the Saturday Night Show a few weeks ago on about player burn out and injuries because of over training it made for a fascinating listen and really struck a chord. I’m having my fourth surgery in six years today in the Beacon hospital in Dublin. I put my body through the mill for club and county and played games that I really shouldn’t have, most notably in 1999, when my injury nightmare started.

Spring is here and we are all eager to shed those extra winter pounds. However before we start on any exercise programme, it is essential that our feet are in peak condition in anticipation of all this extra work!

The Galway senior footballers will be hopeful of collecting another two NFL points this Sunday at Tuam Stadium (2pm) when they face Laois.

The Galway senior hurlers will face Dublin in the Walsh Cup final this Sunday at 5pm in Croke Park.

The overcrowding crisis at public hospital emergency departments is set to continue for several more weeks due to the seasonal surge in demand for services.

The number of patients on trolleys at Mayo General Hospital has increased since yesterday as hospitals across the country are trying to deal with the record high number of patients waiting for beds.

Two Irish hospitals plan to start using three-dimensional printers at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in the coming months to create copies of patients’ hearts to help with surgery for heart disease in adults and congenital heart defects in babies.