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16 more deaths from Covid-19 in Republic

April 6, 2020, 9:59 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that 16 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland have died.

·        11 deaths located in the east, 4 in the north west, 1 in the west of the country

·        The patients included 6 females and 10 males

·        4 patients were reported as having underlying health conditions

·        Median age of today’s reported deaths is 78

There have now been 174 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

The median age of deaths in Ireland is 81.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been informed of 370 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland, as at 1pm, Monday 6th April.

There are now 5,364 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

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Galway records 4 new cases of Covid-19, bringing total to 112

April 6, 2020, 10:02 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Today’s data from HPSC, as of midnight, Saturday 4th April 2020 (4,916 cases), reveals:

·        46% are male and 54% are female, with 260 clusters involving 989 cases

·        Median age of confirmed cases is 49 years

·        1,265 cases (26%) have been hospitalised

·        Of those hospitalised, 169 cases have been admitted to ICU

·        1,263 cases (26%) are associated with healthcare workers

·        Dublin has the highest number of cases at 2,692 (55% of all cases) followed by Cork with 362 cases (7%).

Galway remains at the lower end of confirmed cases at 112, with an increase of 4 in today’s report.

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Camus charity Madra rescues 34 dogs from county Galway farm

April 7, 2020, 3:47 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Camus based dog charity Madra is working to support 34 dogs which it rescued from a farm in county Galway.

Madra took the Border Collie dogs into its care with the assistance of Galway Gardai.

The charity then enlisted the help of collie-specific and other UK rescue groups to assist in the rehabilitation and eventual rehoming of the dogs.

However such efforts were largely impeded due to the COVID 19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown.

Madra is now looking for suitable support homes for the dogs as well as many others it has rescued in recent weeks.

The “Support Homes” programme is designed for dogs that have grown-up on a breeding farming and are not yet ready to become pets.

The initiative is only available to households in quiet rural areas and Madra will set-up such homes with a dog house and access to a trainer.

For more, tune into Galway Bay fm news….

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Galway 2020 to implement 3 week temporary lay-off programme due to COVID 19 restrictions

April 7, 2020, 5:21 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway 2020 is to implement a three-week temporary layoff programme for all but a skeleton staff, effective from today.

The decision has been taken due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a statement to Galway Bay fm news, Galway 2020 says that in response to the unprecedented nature of this crisis, the Board of Galway 2020 has been working in recent days and weeks to make important decisions about the future of the programme.

This has involved close consultation with all stakeholders – the European Commission, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Galway City Council, Galway County Council, sponsors and all cultural partners.

It adds that it’s hoped this will result in a viable, vibrant but undoubtedly contracted programme of events that will take place later in the year.

Measures to be implemented will involve a three-week temporary layoff programme for all but a skeleton staff, effective from today.

The group is also to end its contract with Artichoke.

The statement concludes that the Board of Galway 2020 will continue to consult with stakeholders in the coming weeks to make longer-term decisions in light of funding and timing constraints and will make a further public statement upon completion of that work.

For more on this story, tune in to Galway Bay fm on the hour..

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Care About You are currently recruiting Homecare staff

April 7, 2020, 5:27 am
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Care About You are currently recruiting Homecare staff across Galway, Mayo & Roscommon. If you desire to support these essential services long or short term call 0860262179 or visit our website care about you dot ie or facebook.

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Galway Talks with Keith Finnegan – Tuesday 7th April 2020

April 7, 2020, 6:21 am
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Today on the show Keith spoke with Marina Fiddler from MADRA animal rescue, Ciaran Cannon on delivering papers to the elderly, he paid tribute to the late Mary McPartlan, spoke with leading Gastroenterologist Professor Larry Egan on Inflammatory Bowel Disease and COVID-19 and much more.

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Minister for Culture assures State supports will be provided to laid off Galway 2020 staff

April 7, 2020, 7:15 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has assured that State supports will be provided to the Galway 2020 staff who have been laid off.

Earlier this afternoon, Galway 2020 announced it will implement a three-week temporary layoff programme for all but a skeleton staff, effective from today.

The decision has been taken due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a statement, Culture Minister Josepha Madigan says Galway 2020 has been deeply impacted by the restrictions in place to combat the spread of Covid-19.

She says she is disappointed that Galway 2020 will not proceed to the scale envisaged but adds that the team and cultural partners will do their utmost to deliver as much of the programme as possible when public health guidelines permit them to do so.

In relation to the three-week layoff programme, Minister Madigan assures that all relevant State supports will be provided to the workers affected.

Meanwhile, Galway 2020 says the decision has been made in response to the unprecedented nature of the coronavirus crisis, and it’s hoped it will result in a viable, vibrant but undoubtedly contracted programme of events that will take place later in the year.

For more on this story, tune in to Galway Bay fm on the hour..

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Galway records 2% increase in blood donations in 2019

April 7, 2020, 8:20 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – 7,188 people made donations in Galway in 2019, compared to 7,039 in 2018.

The number of blood donations nationally increased by nearly 1,600 last year.

These new details have been released by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, under the Freedom of Information Act.

They show there were 133,979 blood donations last year – up 1,588 on 2018.

But they fell by 846 in Dublin, although the capital still had by far the most donations, at nearly 30,000.

The next highest were Cork, Galway and Limerick, which all saw increases last year.

Longford is down the bottom of the list – at just 615, down 30 per cent on the previous year.

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Coronavirus community assessment hub to open in Merlin Park

April 7, 2020, 9:38 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – A coronavirus community assessment hub at Merlin Park Hospital will begin seeing patients with GP referrals this week.

The Podiatry Unit at Merlin Park has been transformed into a dedicated community hub for Galway.

[The aim of the hub is to divert mildly symptomatic patients away from acute hospitals, by providing a facility where they can be assessed by a team of nurses, doctors and physiotherapists.

The public is advised, that the hub does not offer a walk-in service and can only be accessed via a GP referral.

The centre has been set up for patients who are confirmed as COVID positive and who require a face to face clinical assessment.

The Merlin Park unit will operate between 8am to 8pm, from Monday to Sunday.

A dedicated hub has also been established at the County Clinic in Castlebar this week, while the venue for a unit in Roscommon has yet to be confirmed.

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Highest daily death toll recorded in the Republic

April 7, 2020, 10:05 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – A further 36 people have died from Covid19 in the Republic, the largest number of fatalities in a single day.

It brings the death toll here to 210.

No deaths have been recorded in the West today.

345 new cases have also been confirmed – the total number of cases of the coronavirus now stands at 5,709.

Professor Sam McConkey, from the Royal College of Surgeons says the death rate runs behind the number of cases and the number of new cases appears to be dropping.

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16 additional cases of Covid-19 in Galway

April 7, 2020, 10:09 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – 16 additional cases of Covid-19 in Galway have been recorded in Galway

This brings the total of confirmed cases to 128

Dublin and Cork remain at the top of the table of recorded cases, with 3,061 and 421 respectively

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Sunday Mass on Galway Bay FM – Sunday 5th April 2020

April 7, 2020, 10:18 am
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Sunday Mass on Galway Bay FM – Sunday 5th April 2020

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Galway Chamber calls on Galway 2020 board to seek extension into first half of 2021

April 8, 2020, 3:24 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – The CEO of Galway Chamber of Commerce has called on Galway 2020 to seek an extension to get projects through the first half of 2021.

Kenny Deery argues the project still has the potential to leave a lasting legacy for years to come.

It comes as Galway 2020 has this week implemented a three-week temporary layoff programme for all but a skeleton staff due to the significant impact of the coronavirus lockdown on events and social gatherings.

The group says it hopes to deliver a contracted programme of events that will take place later in the year.

Kenny Deery says the news is exceptionally disappointing after the momentum had been building across the west since Galway won the bid.

He says there are many organisations lined up and ready to deliver on their committed programmes and a deferral for some projects should be sought for 2021…..

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Galway windpark opens €70,000 COVID 19 response fund

April 8, 2020, 3:56 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway Wind Park has launched a €70,000 COVID-19 response fund to support local communities in Connemara during the crisis.

Joint owners SSE Renewables and Greencoat Renewables have made the funds immediately available, to support community groups that are currently mobilising a rapid response for those most-in-need as a direct result of the outbreak.

Funding is also to be made available for projects in a bid to rebuild the community in the months ahead.

Galway Wind Park is located in Cloosh Valley and is one of Ireland’s largest onshore wind farms.

The COVID-19 response funding is being released early from the overall Galway Wind Park annual community fund.

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Number of vacant beds across Western hospital group reducing as COVID 19 demand increases

April 8, 2020, 6:23 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – The number of vacant beds across the Western hospital group is starting to reduce, due to the growing demands of the coronavirus.

Over the past three and a half weeks, there have been vacant beds, but that’s now changing, especially in hospital sites in Portiuncula, Ballinasloe and in Mayo

Chief Executive of the hospital group Tony Canavan says that it’s still working within capacity, and local modelling indicates the virus is not at its peak.

A growing demand is forecasted in coming weeks for ICU beds.

It comes as today the intensive care unit in the Mater Hospital in Dublin is full with most of the patients in the 18 ICU beds being Covid-19 patients.

Tony Canavan says ED admissions at Galwy University Hospitals are also increasing steadily with 140 attendances yesterday but they still have space at this point – to hear more, tune in to Galway Bay fm news on the hour…

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Career Talk with Collins McNicholas on Galway Talks

April 8, 2020, 6:32 am
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Established in 1990, Collins McNicholas Recruitment & HR Services Group is an Irish company that sources talent across a wide variety of sectors, including Engineering, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Finance & Accounting, Information Technology, HR & Training, Supply Chain & Logistics for its client companies.

With six offices in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway (Headquarters), Sligo and Athlone, it is the only nationwide recruitment company in Ireland that is headquartered outside of Dublin.

Listen back to Career Talk with Elaine Dolan on Galway Talks

Career Talk 2 Elaine Dolan from Collins McNicholas spoke to Keith this week about preparing for your Skype Interview.

Preparing for a Skype Interview

Career Talk 1 Elaine Dolan from Collins McNicholas spoke to Keith this week about “How to maintain productivity levels whilst working from home” Here is her advice:

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Galway Talks with Keith Finnegan – Wednesday 8th April 2020

April 8, 2020, 6:46 am
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Today on the show Keith spoke with Professor Maire Connolly, Keith looked at the Athenry Community First Responders, the latest update on Galway 2020 and much more.

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City’s House Hotel lodges plan for additional bedrooms

April 8, 2020, 7:15 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – There are plans to make additional bedroom space at the House Hotel at Spanish Parade in the city.

The proposal led by Ranchwell Ltd would involve a change of use of the existing ground floor restaurant and bar.

This would make way for seven bedrooms and one reading or meeting room.

There would also be reconfiguration of the existing public toilets to allow for an additional dining area in the lobby and an extension into existing service yard on South West side of building.

City planners are due to make a decision in May.

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Galway West TD concerned about non-essential businesses still operating

April 8, 2020, 8:20 am
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Galway West TD Mairead Farrell is concerned about a number of non-essential businesses still operating under the guise of being vital services.

A number of local workers have voiced concerns over their work places remaining open during the coronavirus emergency.

The official guidance from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation is that the judgement of whether a business is essential is self-assessed.

Deputy Farrell is calling for more oversight to ensure only truly essential workplaces remain open, and that those that do, observe public health guidelines.

She says a process is needed whereby employees can voice concerns and have them investigated.

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Gardaí concerned about speed breaches in Galway

April 8, 2020, 9:45 am
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Gardaí are concerned about speed breaches in County Galway as reduced traffic levels have led to irresponsible driving.

An Garda Síochána has today launched a major operation which will enhance road safety across the country – with a focus on speeding, drink and drug driving and seat belt use.

Galway has been included in the five areas worst affected by speeding this week, which have been revealed as part of the operation.

In one instance on the N6 in Galway, a motorist was reported to be travelling at 95 kilometres per hour in a 50 kilometre zone.

Interim CEO of the Road Safety Authority, John Caufield, is urging motorists to slow down and prevent collisions.

The operation will also work to ensure the public is complying with the travel restrictions introduced as part of the Covid-19 public health guidelines.

Gardaí are reporting increasing numbers of people making non-essential journeys, exercising more than 2km from home and having house parties.

It comes as the Gardaí have been given the power to detain people who refuse to follow the regulations.

Thousands of checkpoints will be in place nationwide from now until midnight on Monday, to ensure people are not making non-essential journeys.

Commissioner Drew Harris says Gardaí will always engage with a member of the public first.

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