One of the founders of the New Beginning organisation, which has been providing legal advice to people facing repossession of their homes, has quit the group claiming it had come under “external pressures”.

The head of a private ambulance firm involved in all of the State’s organ transport missions has called on HIQA to probe what he said has become a “chaotic” organ transport co-ordination system.

A LEADING private ambulance firm has effectively been barred from operating in Ireland after a string of staff competency, Garda vetting and re-training concerns were uncovered.