Gort

KINVARA is to host a benefit concert featuring members of Buttons and Bows and the complete Brock Maguire Band this weekend. The concert is to raise money for the medical costs of Sergio O’Connor, the Dublin-born baby, who was born with an incomplete oesophagus.

WORK on the “stalled” Gort to Tuam motorway will begin next year, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin claimed this week. Minister Howlin declined to give any details on the expected cost of the project when he announced it as part of the Government’s infrastructure stimulus programme on Tuesday.  

GORT moved a step closer to getting its own primary care facility this week. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform outlined its infrastructure stimulus public private partnership programme worth €1.4 billion on Tuesday and as part of this, Gort was named a potential location for a primary care facility.

AN East Galway senator has called on the Government to ensure a primary care facility is provided in Gort and other towns across the constituency. Labour’s Lorraine Higgins this week told junior health minister Kathleen Lynch the expansion of primary care facilities in East Galway must remain a priority.Raising the matter in the Seanad with Minister Lynch, Senator Higgins urged the full expansion of primary care facilities to towns like Gort, Athenry, Loughrea, Ballinasloe, Tuam and Portumna.“These facilities would provide a wide range of services essential for the well-being of members of these communities and include the promotion of health, screening, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, as well as personal social services. They are particularly attractive as a concept in that they are fully accessible by way of self-referral and operate as a one-stop shop for health needs,” she said.Senator Higgins pointed out that although the term “primary health care facilities” is often used with the term “general practice”, the concept …

GORT could have its own playground by the end of next month, it was claimed this week, after unprecedented support from local people and businesses.The company behind the proposed community facility has said it received “amazing support” in its fundraising campaign for the planned Ennis road amenity.“We are doing quite well at the moment. We have about 80% of our fundraising gathered at this stage. Anything we get from here on means we can put in accessible equipment for children with special needs or exercise equipment for adults. We also want to put in simple fun things that are missing out of playgrounds nowadays, like sandpits and that type of thing.“We also want to develop the garden on site in order to have a picnic area. We are hoping to put up a little stage for children to get up on and pretend they are popstars or whatever they want. “Then, hopefully we will be able to afford things like …

A PROGRESS report on the backlog in the public school health screening programme in South Galway will be requested by a local county councillor at a forthcoming Health Service Executive (HSE) briefing for public representatives.

Five years after it was founded, Gort Cancer Support celebrated the official opening of its new centre in Garrabeg, Gort.

The Department of Education has praised Kilbeacanty National School’s board of management in a recent whole school evaluation report.