‘Voters need report on hospital’s future’
The mayor of Cork county John O’Shea (FG) — who is not a general election candidate — insists the decision not to make the report public, was to safeguard the Fianna Fáil vote in Cork South West.
The hospital is the only acute facility in the sprawling and mainly rural constituency. In the event of any downgrading of Bantry, some of the electorate would have to travel over 120 miles to Cork University Hospital, the closest general hospital.
