Galway Bay FM Newsroom – Staff at Galway CAMHS in Merlin Park will meet with top HSE staff to celebrate their major success at the Irish Healthcare awards

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Galway and the West won three awards for inpatient services, nutrition and physical health monitoring

Now in their 22nd year, the Irish Healthcare Awards are Ireland’s leading and most prestigious medical awards.

Chief Officer of Community Healthcare West, Breda Crehan Roche will be at Merlin Park today to celebrate with staff.

While Yvonne O’Neill, National Director of HSE Community Operations and Jim Ryan, Assistant National Director of Operations & Service Improvement will also be in attendance.

Galway Bay FM Newsroom – Thieves who have repeatedly targeted the Circle of Life Garden in Salthill are being branded as “shameless”.

The Garden commemorates those who donated organs to give others a new lease of life.

But in recent weeks, thieves have stolen numerous plants and shrubs from the garden.

Martina Goggins is a co-founder of the Strange Boat Donor Foundation, which created and manages the garden.

She told Galway Talks of one particular incident where a special flower arrangement was stolen twice.

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway West TD Eamon O’ Cuiv is calling for a special fund to raise roads in remote coastal areas.

Speaking in the Dáil, he said some areas are impassable at high tide – and this problem is only going to get worse into the future.

He acknowledged some places along the coast are recognised as islands because it happens every day – but many other areas are not.

Deputy O’ Cuiv accepted some people think the required spend is too big when it concerns such a small number of people.

But he argued once the work is done, it’s done forever – and the value is there for what amounts to small money.