FF faces election crisis over health service attacks

FIANNA FÁIL’S electoral vulnerability on the health service won’t have been improved by this week’s scathing comments from one of its own elected councillors.

Cllr Jimmy O’Gorman described the health service as a “national disgrace” during a meeting of Lismore Town Council and — in an equally uncompromising attack on Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney — branded a letter from the minister to the council “an insult”.

Councillors had requested to receive a deputation — at a time and venue of the minister’s choosing — to discuss the government’s failure to set up a caredoc clinic in Lismore, as had previously been agreed.