Galway Bay FM News Archives
Prime Time findings on health cuts echo with carers across county
Date Published: 01-Jun-2011
The heartbreaking stories of carers whose lives have been devastated by the cutbacks in health services are being replicated right across Galway, according to a parents’ campaign group.
The Prime Time investigation on Monday found that more than 82% of carers have been affected by the budget cuts while almost a quarter of carers have suffered health problems as a result of the huge work load. Some 68% of family carers surveyed had cuts to carers’ payments.
The Hope 4 Disability Galway group said it was currently advocating on behalf of several families who could simply not secure basic services for their children.
“Two parents who are in their 70s having been waiting for 14 years for some urgent care for their daughter. They get very little support, a few hours or a night and they want to secure a place for her in case they die,” the group’s chairperson Eamonn Walsh told the Connacht Tribune.
“We are now advocating on behalf of three families whose children have just reached 18. They have serious to profound disabilities and are leaving special schools and moving fully under the wing of the HSE. They need a day service, respite care and other essential services such as speech and language, physio, occupational therapy. They still don’t know where they’re going in September as there’s no indication of the funding yet for this year.”
Two children in the same situation only learned of their care in August and it was “just the bare bones” of what was needed, according to Eamon.
See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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