Ambulance with seriously ill patient clamped at airport

AN ambulance crew carrying a patient to hospital from Dublin Airport had to wait 20 minutes while a clamp was removed, it emerged yesterday.

Members of the airport police, employees of the Dublin Airport Authority, at no stage asked about the condition of the patient, according to the owner of the private ambulance company.

The ambulance was parked at an arrival bay on Saturday waiting for a man who had fallen seriously ill during a skiing holiday when it was clamped.