Orthopaedic waiting list rises to 900 patients
There are almost 900 people waiting for orthopaedic procedures at University Hospital Galway (UHG), according to new figures obtained by Fianna Fáil. The party’s Galway East TD, Colm Keaveney said the...
View ArticlePortiuncula revamp will help tackle Galway hospital crisis
Plans to replace a 50-bed ward block at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe will be lodged this December, the Connacht Tribune has learned. The design for the replacement works, to include two wards of...
View ArticleState pays more than it saves on Galway Garda station closures
It is costing almost twice as much to maintain Galway’s network of recently shut-down rural Garda stations as the savings accrued from the closures. The Government has conceded the net cost to the...
View ArticleFianna Fail turns on itself over Galway East fall-out
A ‘civil war’ has erupted in Fianna Fáil locally following the ‘changing of the guard’ in the Galway East constituency. Party members ‘tore strips off each other’ at an explosive meeting last week to...
View ArticleCute as a fox, Rabbitte to burrow way to top
Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column with Dara Bradley Some say she’s as mad as a March hare. Others reckon she’s as cute as a fox. But one thing is for sure, there are no flies on Anne Rabbitte....
View ArticleTuam LEA: Keaveney returns as Tom McHugh loses out at the death
A dramatic night saw the renaissance of one political career as another was brought to a halt – by a margin of ten votes on the seventh and final count. Long-time Cllr Tom McHugh was just ten votes...
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