Protesters furious over health crisis

GOVERNMENT ministers in Cork for yesterday’s Cabinet meeting were greeted by angry demonstrators protesting at ongoing problems in the health service.

Campaigners calling for the immediate roll-out of breast screening services were joined by parents worried that paediatric services for special needs children are on the verge of collapse following the resignation of consultant paediatrician Dr David Coghlan, who ran the clinics.

Women chanting ‘BreastCheck Now’ and ‘Help Our Children’ and members of the BreastCheck Now group released a bunch of pink balloons and donned death-like masks when the Taoiseach and Tánaiste arrived.