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“The newly constituted County Hospitals and Dispensary Committee met for the first time on the 25th of February, 1922, in the boardroom of the old gate lodge of the old workhouse to organise the transfer of the Galway Hospital (Infirmary) on Prospect Hill to the workhouse site.” The hospital (which was where the county council buildings are today) had come under the control of the county council the previous year and it wisely decided that it should be closed and the workhouse developed as a central hospital to serve city and county. The Prospect Hill unit was phased out and ultimately closed in December 1924.

A local councillor has called the removal of the remaining orthopaedic, paediatric, and surgical services from Athlone as “devastating”.

A new coalition group confirmed on Wednesday this week that it has reached an agreement that will see it take control of Roscommon County Council.