"Buttoned Up" is a new initiative to encourage a national conversation about menstrual health, aiming to dismantle taboos surrounding menstruation in schools across Ireland. Minister Hildegarde Naughton will launch the transformative project at Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh, Galway, on April 29.
The importance of keeping mothers with their children while undergoing addiction treatment has been recognised with a new residential centre in Limerick.
Seven new or enhanced bus routes in Galway, serving towns including Headford, Corrandulla, Clifden and Carraroe, have been included in the Government s strategy to improve rural mobility.