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NUIG to offer extra CAO points for creative arts
Galway Bay fm newsroom – NUIGalway has announced that it’s offering extra CAO points to students with exceptional achievements in the creative arts.
Students who meet strict criteria will be awarded 40 CAO ‘performance points’ under the college’s Creative Arts Scholarship Scheme.
The extra CAO points are to recognise the significant time and dedication students have shown to reach an exceptional level in their chosen field.
The areas which will be open to the performance points are creative writing, digital arts and media, Drama Theatre & Performance, Film and non-fiction writing including journalism.
Successful applicants will be assigned a mentor in their creative arts discipline, who will help them develop as artists.
Today’s announcement follows a controversial announcement last month by NUIG that it would also award 40 performance points to exceptional athletes towards undergraduate courses.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – UHG was the third most overcrowded hospital in the country last month.
728 patients were waiting for a bed during January.
Meanwhile, 417 patients were waiting on trolleys at Portiuncula Hospital – the worst January on record for the Ballinasloe hospital.
11,289 people were recorded on hospital trolleys since January 1st
That’s up 2 and half thousand on the same time last year.
University Hospital Limerick continues to be the worst affected by over-crowding, accounting for 10 per cent of the overall figure, at 1,180.
Cork, Galway, Letterkenny, and St. Vincent’s in Dublin make up the top five – totalling of over 3,000.
That’s in stark contrast with the bottom five – Tullamore, Portlaoise, the National Children’s Hospital, Connolly Hospital, and Waterford – with a combined total of 213.
The INMO says, “a lack of adequate planning has put unnecessary stress on nurses and the patients”, describing January’s figures as “unacceptably high”.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Athenry, Loughrea, Headford and Gort are now priorities for upcoming transport studies.
Systra Ltd will carry out some of the studies, which must also align with each Local area plan.
The studies will look at modes of travel, options for new Active Travel measures and a traffic management plan.
Councillor Andrew Reddington explains how this has come about and outlines how it will work in Headford, for example
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway has a home vacancy rate just above the national average of 4 percent.
Across the county, 6 percent of homes are vacant, according to Gerdirectory’s Residential Buildings Report.
At the end of 2022, Leitrim had the highest number of vacancies, at 12 percent, followed closely by Mayo on 11 percent.
While Dublin has the lowest, with just one percent of homes there vacant.
Nationally, over 83,500 residential properties were vacant last month, with the report finding the West was worst affected.
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