The HSE claims the recent introduction of advanced radio and communication technology has greatly enhanced the quality of the East Cork ambulance service.

An action group has claimed a success in ensuring a largely populated east Cork town will retain its ambulance service.

A junior minister has claimed the HSE was using industrial relations as a “a bit of a smokescreen” to defer dealing with concerns over its plans to restructure the ambulance service in East Cork.

TWO protests. Hundreds of angry voices.

MORE THAN 500 people formed a 600-metre chain in Youghal yesterday as they protested HSE plans to replace the town’s ambulance service with a first responder paramedic car.