Senior HSE and ambulance officials have been summoned to explain, in person, to Cork County Council why no ambulance was made available to take Vakaris Martinaitis to hospital after falling from an upstairs bedroom window.

They were planning to celebrate his second birthday today. But instead, the parents of a toddler who died after falling from an upstairs window at the family home were last night preparing for his funeral.

Cork GAA legend, Kevin Hennessy, who drove a dying child to hospital has spoken of his shock when told there was noambulance available to come to his aid.

AN elderly brother and sister died in a fire in their house in Co Cork which gardaí believe was started accidentally.

A KERRY woman had to travel to Cork to get the morning-after-pill after she was refused the emergency contraception on “religious grounds”.

BILLY O’MAHONY has lost all faith in the Irish health service.