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Doughiska now has a primary and secondary school serving the area. Doughiska also has a park, several playing pitches, basketball and tennis court as well as a skateboard park. The area is also served by two hospitals with Merlin Park University Hospital to the west and the private Galway Clinic to the east of Doughiska.
The hospital was founded by surgeons Joseph Sheehan and Jimmy Sheehan, who had established the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin. [2] It was built at a cost of €100 million and opened in June 2004. [ 3 ] It brought radiation therapy , cardiac surgery and PET / CT scanning to the west of Ireland for the first time.
The Group is headed by a Chief Executive, who is accountable to the National Director for Acute Services in the Health Service Executive, [4] and is responsibility for delivering inpatient care, emergency care, maternity services, outpatient care and diagnostic services at its designated hospitals. [4]
The hospital, which was commissioned as a tuberculosis sanitarium, was designed by Norman White. [2] It was built on the site of Merlin Park House, a late Georgian property, and opened in 1953. [3]
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. [1]
The Group is headed by a Chief Executive, who is accountable to the National Director for Acute Services in the Health Service Executive, [7] and is responsibility for delivering inpatient care, emergency care, maternity services, outpatient care and diagnostic services at its designated hospitals. [7]
Seamus Heaney (recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature) and his wife were driven here after Heaney had a stroke in 2006. Bill Clinton - in Ireland at the time for 2006 Ryder Cup in County Kildare (just west of Dublin and many hours south of Letterkenny) - heard about Heaney's 'episode', as Heaney himself described it.
The M6 motorway (Irish: Mótarbhealach M6) is a motorway in Ireland, which runs (together with the M4) from Dublin to Galway.The M6 extends from its junction with the M4 at Kinnegad all the way west to the outskirts of Galway City, but the Athlone bypass and the approach to Galway city - while of dual carriageway standard - have not been designated motorway and are still signed as N6.