Ambulance crews have called for an independent “capacity review” of the service’s equipment and personnel levels over fears chronic gaps in the system are causing needless patient deaths.

The National Ambulance Service Representative Association said the service is under-resourced and "running on empty".

An independent investigation into concerns that ambulances are arriving dangerously late to call-outs because of chronic service shortages has been brought forward three months due to the serious issues involved.

The HSE’s repeated failure to meet life-saving ambulance target times is set to be examined by the country’s independent medical watchdog.

The National Ambulance Service Representative Association (NASRA) has said it cannot guarantee that patients will not be affected by their work-to-rule action in protest at the extension to the Croke Park Agreement.

Ambulance personnel are joining gardaí in withdrawing voluntary cover from public events in protest against the Croke Park deal.

The Listed four-runner Horse And Jockey Hotel Hurdle at Thurles yesterday developed into a real battle of tactics and it was Davy Russell on Willie Mullins’ Midnight Game who got it spot-on.

Recent public and media comment on the issue of pay and increments in the public sector makes no effort to distinguish between the circumstances and roles of different public sector employees in receipt of these payments.

AN international study has shown the removal of the breast is unnecessary in the treatment of cancer.

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