Roscommon Galway Independent election candidate Denis Naughten has welcomed the decision by Westdoc to stop Roscommon Town based doctors travelling 70km to cover the Loughrea and Craughwell areas of Co. Galway. As a direct result of the objections raised by Denis Naughten, the out of hours GP service has decided to leave the Roscommon Town based doctor, who provides cover …
East Galway key to development of Ireland’s Camino – Naughten
Denis Naughten has stated he wants to prioritise the completion of the Beara Breifne Way walking/cycle route from County Cork to Cavan, via East Galway, which he says “has the potential to become Ireland’s Camino route”. This walking and cycling trail is based on the historic march of O’ Sullivan Beara in 1603 and links 60 villages and towns along …
Naughten welcomes local road safety works
Local TD Denis Naughten has welcomed the allocation of funding to improve road safety and reduce the number of accidents at six dangerous locations in County Roscommon. Works are about to commence on realignment and improved traffic calming at the cross roads in Frenchpark Village, which was again the location of a recent serious accident. The works will initially be …
St Brigid’s can again become economic driver for Ballinasloe
Campus has capacity to provide 8,000 sq m of serviced offices Local TD Denis Naughten has called on the IDA to redouble its efforts to promote Ballinasloe to foreign investors in light of the fact that there is now 8,000sq m of potential serviced offices on the St. Brigid’s campus. “The old admissions building and nurses home would be ideally …
Loughglynn gets “band-aid” ambulance service – Naughten
Local TD Denis Naughten has described the new ambulance service that is to be introduced from 1st February in Loughglynn as nothing more than a “political band-aid”. “What is to be introduced from 1st February, to serve West Roscommon and East Mayo, is a ‘borrowed’ ambulance from Roscommon Town, which when available will spend most of its time operating in …
Ballinasloe back up ambulance to be moved 40 mins further away – Naughten
The ambulance providing back-up to the ambulance base in Ballinasloe is to be moved a further 40 minutes away from the town from the 1st February next, according to local TD Denis Naughten. “At present when the only 24 hour a day, 7 day a week ambulance based in Ballinasloe has to respond to an emergency, a back-up ambulance is …
Roscommon Town ambulance service to be slashed – Naughten
Roscommon to lose its A&E ambulances from 1st February The Roscommon Town ambulance service is to be slashed from 1st February next following confirmation that an ambulance from Roscommon Town is to be relocated to Loughglynn. This will see the Roscommon base lose a third of its ambulances during the day and half of its ambulance coverage at night. “The …
GP may have to travel over 70k to see patients in Roscommon Town
Denis Naughten has described news that the Westdoc out of hours GP service, based in Roscommon Town, is now covering the Craughwell area of Co. Galway at certain times of the week as “another blow to our local health service”. “It is just not good enough. We have lost our A&E, we have an ambulance service which is on a …
Loughglynn – Ireland’s only blackspot without an ambulance
The lights are on, but no ambulance and no service for 30k people
60% of those saved by flood works cannot get insurance
The insurance industry is trying to capitalise on flood victims by refusing them flood insurance even though they had informed their insurer of a flood wall protecting their home, claims Denis Naughten TD. A recent survey of the residents of the Derrymullen area of Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, who were flooded in November 2009 has shown that 60% of people cannot …