Galway Advertiser 1996/1996_05_30/GA_30051996_E1_018.pdf 

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ICA Launches Awareness Campaign
THE ICA locally is spear heading a major educa tion campaign to increase awareness about osteo porosis, one of the biggest health risks affecting one in two women over seven ty years. Workshops will be held throughout the city and county to teach women more about this brittle bone condition and what they can do to avoid it. The disease has been identified by the World Health Organisation as one which requires urgent atten tion. Despite greater aware ness about the disease, young people are not doing enough to help prevent it. There are now five times as many broken bones due to this debilitating disease than there were in the 1960s, say experts. Hip fracture is the most serious complication of osteoporosis. About 18 per cent of women aged 50 will suffer from hip fractures during their remaining life

time, and of these, 50 per cent will lose their social independence. Up to 20 per cent will die within a year of sustaining the fracture. The disease, which main ly affects women, is often referred to as the silent epi demic as often the first symptom is a fracture. A healthy lifestyle, from a young age, is the key to prevention. This lifestyle must include a constant supply of calcium and vita min D and regular exercise such as brisk walking. Women who have had a hysterectomy before the menopause or who are on long term medication for asthma, rheumatism or arthritis, are particularly at risk. The ICA campaign is being supported by Premier Dairies. A free booklet about osteoporosis is avail able by sending an SAE to The Supermilk Osteoporosis Bureau, Premier Dairies, PO Box 105, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.

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Galway Man Appointed Rector of Armagh
REVEREND JOHN Robert Auchmuty from Renmore has been appointed rector of Killyea, Co Armagh. He will be instituted by the Primate, Most Reverend Robin Eames, Archbishop of Armagh on August 21. Rev John has been curate of St Mark's, Dundela in Belfast since his ordination in 1992. He succeeds Rev John Batchelor at Killyea. The special preacher at the institution will be the Bishop of Connor, Right Rev James Moore, who was Rev John's rector at Dundela as Archdeacon ot Down, prior to his being elected Bishop of Connor. The new rector was edu cated at Colaiste Iognaid the Jesuit College, in Galway and later studied accountancy in the Regional Technical College, Athlone and the Theological College Dublin. He served a sum mer vacancy in Roscommon in 1991. His parents, Denzil and Brenda Auchmuty, live Renmore.

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A NATIONAL foundation that would provide in-ser vice training and support systems for teaching Irish should be set up, accord ing to Bord na Gaeilge. The organisation made a presentation on Bilingualism in the Public Sector at the annual confer ence of the General Council of County Councils in Galway at the weekend. In his address, chairman Micheal O' Muircheartaigh said the local authorities were one of the best sec tions in the public sector to show an understanding of the needs and to implement measures to ensure there is genuine bilingual access to state services. Padraic O' Ciardha, edi tor of Development and Information with Teilifis na Gaeilge, spoke on the progress being made by the Teilifis which is due to come on air later this year. Claddagh Cabs

Q. A few years ago I met a lovely man and we became very good friends. He was really a wonderful person. He was a few years younger than me but it didn't seem to matter at all. I loved him almost from the start so when he told me he loved me too it was more than I could have wished for. He was gentle and kind and lov ing and the most perfect person. I thought I had been sent an angel. We had a few of the happiest years but suddenly he told me he didn't love me that way any more and wanted to return to being just friends. I could hardly believe it as nothing significant had hap pened and when I questioned him he said he just want ed to be friends again. I cannot describe how I feel. I still love him with all my heart. I wouldn't hurt him in any way but I find the situation now almost too much to bear. I really want to be his friend but I feel so sad all the time and even when I'm talking or laughing with people I feel my insides hurting with the pain. Do you think he just wants to be friends with me so that he won't hurt me any more? We always had a really special relationship, and I'd love to be able to maintain that, but I think if he finds a new girlfriend now I couldn't stand the pain of watching them together and feeling that it should be me. What should I do? I have no desire to hurt him. A. To answer your last question, there really isn't any thing you can do, if you mean by that how can you make him love you again. He has made a decision, it is a very hard one for you to accept especially as it came without warning. People stop wanting to be lovers for all sorts of reasons but I think it is very difficult to remain friends with an ex if the decision to split up has not been mutual. You will want more and he's not prepared to give you that. It always hurts when we love someone more than they love us or when they stop loving us. It's hard to make sense of it for ourselves. Right now you need to start building a life for yourself which excludes your friend. You can keep up contact with him but even reducing that a little will help you to focus on things separate from him. You need to disentangle yourself, develop new interests, make other friends, bring some joy and stimulation into your life. In short, you need to create your own happiness, outside of your friends. It may seem improbable, impossi ble even, but you can make it happen.

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Q. I have been going out with a man on and off for two years and I realised lately that I want something more permanent out of the relationship. I then made the mistake of telling him I was in love with him and since then I've hardly seen him. I ended up having to con tact him to find out what was the problem, and he told me he was not into longterm relationships. I know he was hurt be someone before he started going out with me but there is no way I would be the same. How can I convince him I won't let him down since I know know he is afraid of getting hurt and that is what is keeping him from making a commitment? A. I'm afraid the short answer to your question is you can't. He has managed to do a very good job convincing himself that getting involved with a woman equals getting hurt. If he is prepared to get professional help around this then you might stand a chance at it working out between you. Unless that happens my advice to you is to cut your losses and look elsewhere for someone with less baggage and more commitment.